/lit/ - Literature

>>16562504
>>16562539
I watched a presentation of J.P Mallory on his latest work, "The origins of the Irish", and he's well integrated on some of the latest finds in archaeogenetics since 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdLUcBbYZqU

I think the input coming from the genetic field has been a major innovating force, and an arbitrating tool for a number of questions still left unanswered by old scholarship. But the very start of the PIE field itself, and much of its foundation has its basis on the linguistic approach, and the amount of things that have been confidently reconstructed from the daughter languages and cultures is nothing short of amazing. The comparative approach and other linguistic methods are powerful tools to reverse engineer parent cultures. So is Genetics a powerful allied tool in the field nowdays, but unfortunately we can't tell what language certain ancient people spoke based solely on that. Or what Gods they worshipped (though archaeology might), or what concepts were central to their cultures based on the surviving traces of the daughter languages.

The tendency of the field is not to become exclusional, but to become increasingly more multi-disciplinar, with increasingly more interconnection of the linguistic, historical, archaeological and archaeogenetic fields. What one field may fall short of telling us, another can complement its drawbacks, and vice versa, so in the end we can have a more complete and precise narrative.