Proto Indo European Folk Tales (Some of the oldest stories in the world)

Описание: Do we know the stories our Proto Indo European ancestors told? Well the answers is yes, we do know what the oldest stories in the world are. This video, the first of at least five, explores research carried out about five years ago called "Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of
Indo-European folktales" by Jamshid J. Tehrani and Sara Graça da Silva.

Using techniques looking at genetic fingerprinting to understand migration, layered on top of cultural similarity, and language similarity, a deeper understanding than has ever been realised before was discovered in these folktales. The language tree was the "Bayesian phylogenetic analyses of Indo European Languages" by the Bouckaetr et al.

These fairy tales were passed down through generations of a tribe to ensure there survival. And here we uncover them and explain what the tales actually meant to our ancestors.

Chapters
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0:00 Introduction
1:06 How do we know that these are the oldest stories?
2:24 Comparative Phylogenetic Method and Auto Logistic Modelling
4:11 The ATU - The Aarne Thompson Luther Index
5:51 Language Trees
6:58 How did stories spread and remain in the cultural record?
8:20 How many of these stories could have come from Proto Indo European times, what were they, and what would they have meant to our ancestors
10:35 The Smith and the Devil, and its implications on metallurgy
12:13 The White Snake, what does it mean?
13:45 The Three Feathers, and the animal love motif
16:09 The Boy who stole the Ogre's treasure
17:00 Ending and thankyou