Amerindian Mound-Builders and Kurgans from Eurasia.

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The similarities between North American pre-Columbian burial practices and Bronze Age Kurgans from Eurasia are really striking. So much that the scholar Benjamin Barton proposed that the American Mound-Builders were actually Vikings, whose the presence in America was already constated by archeological records, due to the strong similarities between both funerary practices. This theory has been debunked through anthropologcal and archeological researches. The Kurgan burial method spread during the Bronze Age from the Pontic Caspian steppe to central and western Eurasia by Yamnaya herders. Together with cultural elements, these expansions are also responsible for the introduction of the ANE genetic component to Europe, which peaks in native Americans and is basal to basically every modern day Europeans.

Nordic Bronze Age Hågahögen

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3022/2527726767_75d93e1c6d_z.jpg?zz=1

Inglinge hög from Sweden

https://songline.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/img_8249.jpg

Native American Criel mound

http://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/The-Criel-Mound.jpg?itok=DHktqkPl

Native American Grave Creek mound

http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/Images/countries/American%20pics/moundgravecreek.jpg

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