{"product_id":"marquardt-hans-j-rgen-vom-ursprung-der-deutschen","title":"Marquardt, Hans-Jürgen - On the Origin of the Germans","description":"\u003cp\u003e 30,000 years of prehistory of the German people\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n Short text:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \nThis book draws primarily on modern findings in the cultural history of crafts and arrives at fundamentally new insights. Here we finally find clear answers regarding the origins of the Celts, the family tree of European peoples, and the relationship between the Germans and their Indo-European cousins. And the book refutes the old myth that all culture originated in the Orient.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n Full text:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \nGerman youth learn a great deal about the classical cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near East in school, but precious little about the prehistory of the Germans. Popular science books, driven by sensationalism, build bold theories on new discoveries, as recently happened with Ötzi. But even academic scholarship has so far failed to resolve the many contradictions in prehistory. Especially regarding the Indo-European question, there is more arbitrariness than clarity. This book draws primarily on modern findings in the cultural history of crafts, thus arriving at fundamentally new insights. Here we finally receive clear answers: for the origin of the Celts, the family tree of European peoples, and the kinship between the Germans and their Indo-European cousins. And the book refutes the old myth that all culture originated in the Orient: writing, shipbuilding, navigation, iron smelting, the invention of steel and the wagon—these are, among other cultural contributions from the ancestral homeland of the Germans.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \nBack cover text:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n There are many scholarly books on individual periods of German prehistory, and also very detailed volumes on specialized topics for this time, which provide experts with information on the new and, in some cases, overturning findings of recent decades. What has been lacking until now is an overview written for the interested layperson, and especially for inquisitive young people, that consciously proceeds from the standpoint that this is the history of our ancestors.\u003cbr\u003e \nThis book aims to fill that gap. It describes the \"truly wondrous prehistory of our people,\" the roughly 30,000 years until the Germanic tribes emerged into the light of history with the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest and their momentous victory over the world power of Rome. During this time, the group of peoples later known as Germanic and Celtic developed, whose descendants are the approximately 365 million people of Germanic tribes living worldwide today. Of these, the Germans, in their ancestral homeland and around the world, constitute well over half, by far the largest group, numbering around 190 million. Over the last two millennia, these peoples, in particular, have shaped world history up to the present day. That alone would be reason enough to examine their origins more closely.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \nBut above all, it's about our ancestors, in whose development our nature and our species were laid. General biology, and especially its specialized fields of evolutionary theory and behavioral research, have demonstrated, particularly in the last half-century, how not only the physical but also the mental and emotional characteristics of humankind have developed. It has been recognized that present-day beings can only be understood in terms of their phylogenetic development and that the tens of thousands of years of the Stone Age shaped the various human groups very differently. Therefore, anyone who wants to understand the nature and characteristics of today's peoples must know their prehistory, must concern themselves with the lives of their ancestors, must trace their origins.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \nThe decisive event for Europe was the last Ice Age, which began around 120,000 years ago and ended abruptly 10,000 years ago. At the edge of the ice, under the harsh conditions of a hostile environment and prolonged isolation from other human groups, the Nordic race developed during the last tens of thousands of years of this period. This race formed the population core of the later Germanic peoples, inheriting their genetic heritage, most notably characterized by blond hair and blue eyes. The intellectual and spiritual heritage of modern Europeans also dates back to this era, which also shaped the beginnings of culture, particularly language. The post-glacial period then saw a relatively rapid cultural development through the Middle and Late Stone Ages to the cultural zenith of the Nordic Bronze Age, after which individual Germanic peoples and tribes, as well as their migrations, soon became clearly identifiable. New dating methods proved that important cultural and craft techniques such as writing or deep-sea navigation, iron smelting or steel production, wagon making and land surveying spread from north to south, and not, as previously mostly assumed, in the opposite direction from the Orient to Central Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \nThe author conveys these fundamental insights and integrates them into a comprehensive overview of German prehistory. He demonstrates how exciting history can be and that we Germans, as the largest indigenous people of Europe, have every reason to be proud of our Germanic ancestors and to preserve their character. In this way, the book can be a significant aid to self-discovery and the development of a personal and national identity.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n Table of contents:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n 7 On the origin of the Germans\u003cbr\u003e\n The historical period and our number today - 8\u003cbr\u003e\n The language of the Germanic peoples - 9\u003cbr\u003e\n The prevailing theories about the origin of the Germans - 10\u003cbr\u003e\n The scientific foundations - 11\u003cbr\u003e\n The observations - 14\u003cbr\u003e\n The time of the emergence of the Nordic race - 16\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n 18 Part Two: Ice Age\u003cbr\u003e\n The worm time - 18\u003cbr\u003e\n The origin of the Nordic race - 22\u003cbr\u003e\n Relationships - 24\u003cbr\u003e\n The separation: the departure into isolation - 32\u003cbr\u003e\n The dowry: culture and language, physical and mental gifts - 36\u003cbr\u003e \nStrangers threaten the isolation - 48\u003cbr\u003e\n Blonde hair, blue eyes: the genetic dowry - 58\u003cbr\u003e\n Millennia of adaptation - 61\u003cbr\u003e\n The environment is changing - 68\u003cbr\u003e\n How many people were there? - 72\u003cbr\u003e\n The traffic space and the linguistic unit - 76\u003cbr\u003e\n Interim report - 81\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n 84 Part Three: Post-glacial Period\u003cbr\u003e\n The Norsemen and the Others - 84\u003cbr\u003e\n The other peoples - 90\u003cbr\u003e\n The Middle Stone Age - 91\u003cbr\u003e\n The Life of the Norsemen in the Middle Stone Age - 95\u003cbr\u003e\n Encounters with other cultures and peoples in the Mesolithic period - 100\u003cbr\u003e\n The Great Age - 106\u003cbr\u003e\n Names of peoples and tribes - 109\u003cbr\u003e\n Hiking on land and at sea - 111\u003cbr\u003e\n The Celts migrate away - 115\u003cbr\u003e\n Germanic Beginnings - 121\u003cbr\u003e\n The Ship - 123\u003cbr\u003e\n The first Germanic migrations - 133\u003cbr\u003e\n The Causes and Consequences of the Sea Peoples' Invasion - 151\u003cbr\u003e\n Nations as chess pieces - 153\u003cbr\u003e\n The Neighbors - 157\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n 168 Part Four: Early History\u003cbr\u003e\n The Bastarnae - 168\u003cbr\u003e\n The Vandals or Wends - 180\u003cbr\u003e\n The migration of the Cimbri, Teutones and Ambrones and the migration of the Suebi - 189\u003cbr\u003e\n A\u003cbr\u003e\n The people live on the maps - 193\u003cbr\u003e\n The Burgundians - 194\u003cbr\u003e\n The Goths - 197\u003cbr\u003e \nInterim assessment: historiography - 204\u003cbr\u003e\n Rome - 207\u003cbr\u003e\n Germania Magna - 214\u003cbr\u003e\n Arminius, Varus and Flavus - 218\u003cbr\u003e\n The preparation - 220\u003cbr\u003e\n The Battle - 225\u003cbr\u003e\n The immediate consequences - 228\u003cbr\u003e\n The indirect consequences - 229\u003cbr\u003e\n The long-term consequences - 230\u003cbr\u003e\n Inventory - 231\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e Paperback with flaps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e 50 illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e 240 pages \u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n","brand":"Nordwelt Bücher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52350335680849,"sku":"11.164","price":15.3,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0972\/9821\/9345\/files\/1689_05aa74b4-0359-42bf-a5ad-bc25135e464c.jpg?v=1763083632","url":"https:\/\/nordwelt.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/marquardt-hans-j-rgen-vom-ursprung-der-deutschen","provider":"nordwelt","version":"1.0","type":"link"}