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Ancient Druid Civilization from Archaeological Texts

(Work in progress by David Olmsted, Illinois, USA)

(Updated May 17, 2025) Real ancient European history is not what is being taught in schools. This is not their fault but is the result of deliberate suppression, first by the Roman and Hellenistic empires against the cultures of their "barbaric" colonized subjects, and then by the Christian church against those "evil" native Pagans. Fortunately for us we have tens of thousands of runic documents belonging to these suppressed people. Until now those texts have remained either untranslated, or mistranslated as name lists by nationalist promoting scholars. Most general European histories do not even acknowledge their European-wide existence. In a surprising twist these runic texts turn out to have been written in Akkadian and they show that a common religious culture once existed across all of Europe. All their archaeological texts are in Akkadian and all these texts show a common religious culture. All Akkadian Translations are by David Olmsted.

This site is dedicated to those past Pagan lives who deserve to be remembered and respected for the civilization they built.

Map showing the results of the latest computer study comparing the similarities between modern European languages. These studies continue to show that European languages have two geographic sources. The northern Indo-European source and the southern Akkadian source. Yet incredibly, these researchers claim that the Mesopotamia/eastern Anatolia source is Indo-European contrary to all historical evidence from cuneiform texts that this region is the homeland of Akkadian. This shows the high level of bias in existing among European linguists. Map from: P. Heggarty et al., Science (2023).

European Words Have 2 Geographic Sources.

(May 18, 2025) Comparative philology (historical linguistics) was developing fast near the end of the 1700's. Many were noticing that the Sanskrit spoken in India bore a number of striking resemblances to Greek and Latin. In 1787, Sir William Jones put forward the hypothesis that all three languages must have “sprung from some common source, which perhaps no longer exists.” By this time, a number of texts and glossaries of the older Germanic languages (Gothic, Old High German, and Old Norse) had been published, and Jones realized that Germanic as well as Old Persian and perhaps Celtic had evolved from the same “common source.” This idea continued to be developed so that in 1813, Thomas Young (1773 - 1829), was able to introduce the term "Indo-European" for this "common source."

So from the beginning the cause for the common words in Indo-European languages was assumed to be singular. This assumption turns out to be false and that has huge consequences for history.

Keeping with this singularity assumption, the main battle in historical linguistics over the past 60 years has been where Indo-European originated.

Sourcing Indo-European in the steppes north of the Caucus mountains was first put forth by Otto Schrader in 1883. It was further supported by V. Gordon Childe in 1926, then systematized in the 1950s by Marija Gimbutas, who used the term to group various prehistoric cultures, including the Yamnaya (or Pit Grave) culture and its predecessors. Its most recent proponent in the 2000s has been David Anthony.

Sourcing Indo-European in Anatolia was put forth by British archaeologist Colin Renfrew in his 1987 book Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of the Indo-European Origins. He separated Anatolia from northern Mesopotamia (Akkadian) even though that would make for an unrealistically sharp division between primary language groups.

References

19th century Linguistics in Encyclopedia Britannica online at: https://www.britannica.com/science/linguistics/The-19th-century

P. Heggarty, and all (2023) Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages. Science, 28 July 2023. Online at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abg0818

Press Release from the the Max Plank Institute: New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages. Online at: https://www.mpg.de/20666229/0725-evan-origin-of-the-indo-european-languages-150495-x

Robinson, Andrew (2007). The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Genius who Proved Newton Wrong and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, among Other Surprising Feats. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-13-134304-7.

Druid civilization began in the Neolithic with the first farmers. Image shows the spread of farming from Mesopotamia and Levant through Anatolia and into Europe as determined by archaeology. These farmers started to migrate starting around 9600 BCE and reached Britain by 4100 BCE. Akkadian is the native language of northern Mesopotamia. The 2 branches of migration is often reflected in the differing etymologies of the same word (example "cinder"). Map from Gronenborn, D., & Horejs, B. (2023). Online at: https://www.academia.edu/9424525/Map_Expansion_of_farming_in_western_Eurasia_9600_4000_cal_BC_update_vers_2023_1_?email_work_card=title

Image above shows the spread of the Indo-Europeans and their language who originated on the northern steppes. These invasions of Europe began around 3500 BCE. The Indo-European Bell Beaker culture did not reach Britain until around 2400 BCE just after the building of the last phase of Stonehenge was built. Were they settled they replaced 90% to 60% of the farmer genetics. (Image from: (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indo-European_expansions.jpg)

(updated Jan. 15, 2025) Chart showing calculated population replacement percentages in Britain. From David Reich: "Origins of Humans and Culture" below. BUT! Such extreme levels of replacement likely involve some sample bias because DNA from the poorly buried and cremations cannot be sampled. Contradicting this extreme replacement of the first farmers is archaeological evidence showing that a substantial amount of Neolithic farmer material traditions continued into the Indo-European era (see Booth and all 2021). Also the Neolithic Akkadian language continued. Yet some murder did happen (see Otzi the Iceman). What is certain is that DNA from the Indo-Europeans was introduced into the area around 4500 BCE. The Neolithic farmer (6000 BP) and Indo-European (4500 BP) replacements also involved increased economic productivity leading to population swamping.

David Reich – How One Small Tribe Conquered the World 70,000 Years Ago

(September 2, 2024) Dwarkesh Patel interviews David Riech about his latest thoughts on ancient genetic history. Humans exhibit 4 time scale levels of change: genetics, epigenetics, culture, and reason. Epigenetics is the new concept in which a very small section of genes code for the expression strength of all other sections. Epigenetics seems to have changed the vocal tract and hence language abilities.

Prior to the Neolithic people existed as small isolated tribes with ever decreasing genetic variations. Only once in a while did a few mix changing their culture and once again increasing their genetic density. Of these only a few were groups able to outcompete other groups and quickly spread over Eurasian and north Africa. The group which did this at the dawn of history were the Neolithic farmers who were then followed by the Indo-Europeans.

He has some new insights on the Indo-European expansion. It started with the Yamnaya people who were only adapted to steppe living so could not and did not expand into the forests of Europe. Instead, over a period of time, they mixed with the people at the forest edge represented by the Corded-Ware material tradition (3000 BC – 2350 BCE). It was the males of this new mixed culture who then conquered the rest of Europe.

Neolithic Farmers For Both Europe and India Came Out of North Mesopotamia/Southern Anatolia

(July 19, 2022, updated May 17, 2025) Recent genetic evidence shows that Neolithic farmers migrated out of Mesopotamia starting around 8500 BCE (see images). The Indo-European invasion began around 3500 BCE.

This means the builders of Stonehenge spoke Akkadian. Stonehenge was built in several stages starting around 3000 BCE and continuing until about 2400 BCE. The Indo-European bell-beaker culture arrived in Britain around 2400 BCE.

The earliest European/Mediterranean Akkadian writing is the 1800 BCE Minoan Phaistos Disk and the 1700 BCE Minoan Linear A tablets and these are in Akkadian. All later alphabetic writing derives from these Minoan texts. Writing formally labeled as Celtic, Tartessian, Etruscan, Phoenician, Punic, Paleo-Hebrew, Archaic-Greek, and Aramaic are all really an alphabetic form of Akkadian. These texts show Druid culture was the source for both classical philosophy and the authentic teachings of Jesus.

References

Spread of Farminghttps://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/bogucki_1996_spread_farming_europe_american_scientist.pdf
Genetics of Early Farmers at: https://www.eupedia.com/europe/origins_haplogroups_europe.shtml
Booth TJ, Brück J, Brace S, Barnes I. (2021) Tales from the Supplementary Information: Ancestry Change in Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age Britain Was Gradual with Varied Kinship Organization. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 31(3):379-400. https://doi:10.1017/S0959774321000019
Curry, Andrew (August 25, 2022) ‘Phenomenal’ ancient DNA data set provides clues to origin of farming and early languages. Online at: https://www.science.org/content/article/phenomenal-ancient-dna-data-set-provides-clues-origin-farming-early-languages
Gronenborn, Detlef and Horejs, Barbara (2021) Expansion of farming in western Eurasia, 9600 - 4000 cal BC (update vers. 2021.2. Online at: https://www.academia.edu/9424525/Map_Expansion_of_farming_in_western_Eurasia_9600_4000_cal_BC_update_vers_2021_1_
Haak, Wolfgang and all (2010) Ancient DNA from European Early Neolithic Farmers Reveals Their Near Eastern Affinities. Online at: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000536)
Hamon, C. and Manen, C. (2021) The Mechanisms of Neolithisation of Western Europe: Beyond a South/North Approach. Open Archaeology Volume 7 Issue 1. Online at: https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0164

Europedia Correlates Material Traditions and Genetics Of The Neolithic Farmers

https://www.eupedia.com/genetics/haplogroups_of_neolithic_farmers.shtml

Starčevo–Kőrös–Criș Material Traditions (c. 6200-4500 BCE)

(May 26, 2024) This tradition represents the advance of Early Neolithic farmers from Anatolia to south-east Europe. Material traditions are not culture which can only be discovered from ancient texts but which can be hinted at from burial customs. Material traditions only show the range of a people's interconnection by the trade links which is affected by geography, technology level, and politics.
Very few graves have found in the Starčevo culture, and those were generally single graves. Most burials identified belonged to women or children. They were inhumed under the floors of personal residences as they were in Anatolia, a practice that continued until 4000 BCE. Graves rarely contained goods. When they did, it was pottery, grinding stones, flint tools or jewelry.
DNA tests show these people had fair skin, brown eyes and dark hair, while Mesolithic Europeans had darker skin, dark hair, but blue eyes.
More information at: https://www.eupedia.com/genetics/haplogroups_of_neolithic_farmers.shtml

Linear Pottery (LBK) Material Traditions (c. 5600-4250 BCE)

(May 26, 2024) Represents the northwestern advance of Early Neolithic farmers from the Starčevo-Körös culture across central Europe, starting from what is now Hungary and spreading northwest.
Burial customs began to change during this time. Cemeteries containing from 20 to 200 graves make their appearance from 5000 BCE and included both male and female skeletons, apparently arranged in groups based on kinship.
DNA tests show these people had fair skin, brown eyes and dark hair.
More information at: https://www.eupedia.com/genetics/haplogroups_of_neolithic_farmers.shtml

Megalithic Material Traditions (c. 4800-2000 BCE)

(May 26, 2024) The origins of the Megalithic material traditions in Europe remains controversial and incomplete. At this time the remaining Mesolithic people were interbreeding with the Near Eastern farmers. Later the Indo-European invaders started doing the same. DNA testing of remains from burials around Megalithic sites shows that paternal ancestry was overwhelmingly Mesolithic European, while maternal ancestry was predominantly East Mediterranean. Why this is the case is unknown.
Ancient DNA tests have shown that Atlantic Megalithic people had a variety of skin tones ranging from pale-intermediate to dark. Almost all had brown or black hair. The majority had brown eyes. They like the earlier Neolithic farmers were lactose intolerant.
This map is incomplete as Megalithic structures are also found as far east as the Caucuses. Again, material traditions do not define culture.
More information at: https://www.eupedia.com/genetics/haplogroups_of_neolithic_farmers.shtml

(May 27, 2024) The most recent and detailed genetic study of Otzi the iceman shows he had darker and he was mostly bald. Consequently, he was likely a mix of Mesolithic hunter-gatherer and Neolithic farmer. This also means his language was Akkadian. (Some of the latest genetic analysis is now indicating that dark skin came from Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. Image from: https://www.trendradars.com/uk/article-643683-is-this-what-otzi-the-iceman-really-looked-like-scientists-say-europes-oldest-mummy-was-dark-and-bald-when-he-roamed-the-alps-5300-years-ago-and-not-fair-and-hairy-as-previously-thought-2

Latest Genetic Info Shows Ötzi the Iceman Had Neolithic Farmer Genetics. He Must Have Been Speaking Druid Akkadian in 3300 BCE

(November 9, 2023) Ötzi was found murdered in 1991 on the Southern slopes of the eastern Italian (Ötztal) Alps. He is the world's oldest glacier mummy. Radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis date him to between 3350–3120 BCE. Based on the dating he could have been killed by some Indo-European invaders. Here is a quote from the Max Plank Institute Press Release dated August 16, 2023:

Ötzi's genome was decoded for the first time more than ten years ago. This was also the first time the genome of a mummy had been sequenced. The results provided important insights into the genetic makeup of prehistoric Europeans. Advances in sequencing technology have now enabled a research team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Eurac Research to reconstruct Ötzi’s genome more accurately. The results of this recent analysis refine the Iceman’s genetic picture: compared to other contemporary Europeans, Ötzi’s genome has an unusually high proportion of genes in common with those of early farmers from Anatolia. And, contrary to previous findings, at the time of his death, Ötzi had advanced hair loss and may have even been bald. Furthermore, his skin was darker than previously thought. Ötzi’s genes also show a predisposition to diabetes and obesity.

This is interesting linguistically because the Alpine region and Eturia just south of the Alps continued to speak and write Akkadian until conquered by the Romans.

References

Max Plank Institute Press Release dated August 16, 2023: https://www.mpg.de/20711365/0804-evan-dark-skin-bald-head-anatolian-ancestry-150495-x

Ke Wang, Kay Prüfer, Ben Krause-Kyora, Ainash Childebayeva, Verena J. Schuenemann, Valentina Coia, Frank Maixner, Albert Zink, Stephan Schiffels, Johannes Krause. (1923) High-coverage genome of the Tyrolean Iceman reveals unusually high Anatolian farmer ancestry. Cell Genomics, 2023; 100377 DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100377

The problem of archaeology today is that it has no overarching theory to guide the interpretation of archaeological finds. This started to change with the first Book by Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) published in 1982 in which she presented the Goddess Theory of European civilization to challenge the nationalist and patriarchal orthodoxy of Greek and Hebrew Source priority. At the time she was professor Emeritus of Archaeology at UCLA.
When the Goddess theory was later discredited what remained was the old nationalistic Greek and Hebrew Source Theory. This combined with the competitive nature of Academia these day is leading to a segmentation of archaeology and linguistics into narrow nationalist specialties pandering to nationalist funding sources. The result is fake history from academic linguists whose "translations" end up being mostly names representing their own nations language. Another result of this is the rise of pseudoarcheology from people who realize the old nationalist models are not valid and so are grasping at any alternative.

Reference

https://www.opusarchives.org/marija-gimbutas-collection/

Druid Civilization Theory Supersedes European Goddess Theory

(Feb. 6, 2023) Before there was this Druid theory of European cultural origins there was the Goddess Theory by Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994). She was the first to realize that the archaeological evidence pointed to an earlier and different civilization existing prior to the traditional Greek and Hebrew sources of European civilization.

Yet she failed in defining this earlier civilization for these reasons:

This was before the earliest European archaeological texts were translated so she was going in blind using only archaeological finds which can be interpreted many different ways.
She was mentally trapped and viewed deities in the Biblical way as lord gods, that is, only as people and not also as powers.
She was monotheistic postulating a single Goddess instead of goddesses.
She was caught up in the feminist movement of the era so she simply ignored any evidence contrary to her Goddess superiority concept. In her magnum opus book in which she presented her views (“The Language of the Goddess from 1989) she even turned the masculine icon of the bull into a feminine “regeneration” icon (page 188).

In Gimbutas’ last book The Civilization of the Goddess, which synthesizes the work and theses of her previous books (Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe 1974/1982 and The Language of the Goddess 1989/1991), she wrote,

“The primordial deity for our Paleolithic and Neolithic ancestors was female, reflecting the sovereignty of motherhood. In fact, there are no images that have been found of a Father God throughout the prehistoric record. Paleolithic and Neolithic symbols and images cluster around a self-generating Goddess and her basic functions as Giver-of-Life, Wielder-of-Death, and as Regeneratrix.”

Further in Civilization of the Goddess Gimbutas outlines the symbolic understanding Old European societies had of the universe and the divine. She wrote,

“The multiple categories, functions, and symbols used by prehistoric peoples to express the Great Mystery are all aspects of the unbroken unity of one deity, a Goddess who is ultimately Nature herself.”

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