The English are not the natives. The land was taken in a Great Replacement.
About 1/5 of the global population is from R Steppe pastoralists of R-L23 mutation lineage and R-Z645 mutation lineage, a very recent mutation; this occurred because of the male population replacement of Europe. The population of Europe, pre-invasion, was filled with G farmers and I hunter-gatherers, many of whom had taken up farming and pastoralism from the G men. G men in the highly farmable central/southern half of Europe. And I-men dominating the northern half and residing in the southern half of Europe. After the invasion, Europe has not been the same since; Europe went barbarian Indo-European. Over 50% of Europe descended from only two Bronze Age leaders. Genghis Khan did not leave such a horrible record of conquest and rape in the fact that 16 million males today descend from paternal lines from Genghis Khan and family. The genocide spree of Genghis Khan of 40 million did not reach this slaughter and rape from the Steppe invaders over a 1000 years in Europe. In the chapter on G men, we learned G men taught pastoralism and domestication to the R1 steppe hunter-gatherers. This helped give them the idea of the domestication of horses, as previously mentioned. The Old Europe civilization also gave gifts and traded copper to the steppe hunter-gatherers. Likely from the Maykop, the Steppe Yamnaya got the technology for bronze. With their previous use of horses and weapons to destroy the Old Europe civilization for the first Homo sapiens genocide in Europe, steppe invaders with bronze weapons began the conquest, destruction, and genocide of Neolithic and Copper Age Europe, taking women and land and leaving death and genocide behind. R1a wiped out many of the Neolithic male population of Europe via the Corded Ware culture. R1b replaced the male population of Western Europe, hitting Central Europe first. The R1b Steppe invaders gradually became known as the Bell Beaker Culture, though there is evidence the specific pottery predates Steppe invasions. In Scandinavia, I2 were mostly replaced by successive waves of steppe invaders. I1 survived, mostly due to their entry into the Bronze Age, partly due to their confidence and strength. This gave birth to Vikings, half barbarian/half civilized warriors that saw neighbors as us vs. them and lacked the morality to resist pillaging and raping that was done to them and was unheard in Europe pre-steppe invasion on such a vast total genocide wide scale. Scandinavia turned into a hellscape as much of Europe did with the Steppe Y-DNA R1 invaders. The Y-DNA I1 of Northern Europe did not know the world still survived in peace outside of Europe, as their whole world went to hell by invading barbarians, with the those adopt bronze technology surviving. Many of them witnessing their I2 European hunter gatherer brothers get replaced out of the history books.
The Baltic region was majority Y-DNA I before Bronze Age invaders using superior weapons killed the natives. After the invasion by genocidal Y-DNA Steppe barbarians, the Baltic region went 100% Steppe R1 according to the paper, “The genetic prehistory of the Baltic Sea region” by Alissa Mittnik et al 2015, replacing the native population, while pockets could be found to have survived, genetic evidence shows that in most regions of Europe, R1 steppe invaders replaced the male population.
In the paper, "Massive migration from the steppe is a source for Indo-European languages in Europe" [Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe, Wolfgang Haak et al, 2015;
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14317] It shows about a 75% population replacement of the native male lines in Central Europe. After Central Europe, the steppe invaders moved into modern-day France and the Netherlands. The native Neolithic G men and I men were mostly wiped from the gene pool, and their females that did not die defending their husbands and sons ended in the hands of Steppe male invaders. These steppe invaders did not check IDs for restrictions on rape, it would have been similar to the rearguard of the Red Army during WWII. From 8 to 80. It is clear that Steppe males had a policy of excluding Neolithic European males from sex and reproduction through violence against the native females and violence against the native males, resulting in the male lines being nearly wiped out. This was the foundation of Indo-European identity in Europe.
For the France Beaker era, the same story of male replacement. Y-DNA R1b was found in Beaker France, during the Bronze Age, among these studies:
The Beaker Phenomenon and the Genomic Transformation of Northwest Europe, Iñigo Olalde et al, 2017;
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/135962v1
Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age, Nick Patterson et al, 2021;
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04287-4
Ancient genomes from present-day France unveil 7,000 years of its demographic history, Samantha Brunel et al, 2020;
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/05/20/1918034117
A rough estimate of 18/22 samples showing over 80% male population replaced in a combination of the above studies in Bronze Age France.
These studies provide data on Y-DNA R1b found in Beaker Britain during the Bronze Age at various sites in the British Isles:
The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe, Iñigo Olalde et al, 2018;
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25738
Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age, Nick Patterson et al, 2021;
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04287-4
The Beaker Phenomenon and the Genomic Transformation of Northwest Europe, Iñigo Olalde et al, 2017;
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/135962v1
A rough estimate of 35/37 samples were Steppe R1b during the Beaker Era of Britain. Nearly a 95% male replacement rate according to these samples. The Y-DNA G farmers and Y-DNA I native Europeans were nearly totally replaced in a genocide.
A research paper “Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groups” by Olalde et al. 2025 compiled unpublished and published samples from the Mesolithic to Bronze Age Rhine-Meuse region and found over 90% of the pre-Steppe invasion populations were Haplogroup I. The remainder were pre-Younger Dryas European populations of one C sample and two R1b-V88 non-Steppe samples that were present in Western and/or South Central Europe before the Younger Dryas Event. These three samples were in addition to many dozens of I samples in the region before the Steppe invasion. After the barbarians on horse entered the region at the end of the Neolithic Period, a near total replacement of the male population ensued with 100% of the Beaker/bronze age samples being Steppe R1b - 12/12 or 13/13 samples - depending on the start of the period to tally. And several possible samples of neolithic native mtDNA women with the steppe-associated invader males (K2b1a, H1a, H4a1a1a, T2b) to show the males were vastly replaced and the females were taken into the conquerors domain.
“Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groups” by Olalde et al. 2025;
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.24.644985
Two genetic studies on the Bronze Age Unetice Culture. One study “Kinship practices at the early bronze age site of Leubingen in Central Germany” Penske et al (2024) had 25 Steppe R1 Samples and one (likely native) I2a2a. That is over 96% population replacement from the neolithic natives. Another study: “Tracing social mechanisms and interregional connections in Early Bronze Age Societies in Lower Austria” Furtwängler et al (2025) had 36 out of 40 Bronze Age Unetice Culture as Steppe R1, no V88s noted. That is a 90% replacement rate from a genocide. The Unterwölbinger Culture was shown to be 8/9 Steppe R1.
Tracing social mechanisms and interregional connections in Early Bronze Age Societies in Lower Austria”, Furtwängler et al (2025);
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.10.636471v1
“Kinship practices at the early bronze age site of Leubingen in Central Germany”, Penske et al (2024);
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54462-6
A rough estimate of 24/27 Bronze Age males in Spain were Steppe. Here are the sample studies:
A western route of prehistoric human migration from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula, G. González-Fortes et al, 2019;
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2018.2288
The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years, Iñigo Olalde et al, 2019;
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6432/1230
Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age, Nick Patterson et al, 2021;
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04287-4
Four millennia of Iberian biomolecular prehistory illustrate the impact of prehistoric migrations at the far end of Eurasia, Cristina Valdiosera et al, 2018;
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1717762115
The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe, Iñigo Olalde et al, 2018;
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25738
Showing nearly a 90% male population replacement in Iberia by the end of the Bronze Age. This is Death Camp level of replacement of the population prompting the headline from one study showing a total population replacement: “The invasion that wiped out every man from Spain 4,500 years ago” (The invasion that wiped out every man from Spain 4,500 years ago, Manuel Ansede, 2018;
https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/10/03/inenglish/1538568010_930565.html). Finding: According to Olalde “40% of the genetic information and 100% of the Y chromosomes come from the migrants”. Given that children inherit the Y chromosome from their fathers, “this means that the men who arrived had preferential access to local women, again and again,” said Reich at the September event.” It can be explained by exclusion of reproduction via bride stealing and threat of violence, or if resistance or the barbarians see you as a threat, that threat is eliminated. Again and again across most of Europe, the reproducing local women end in the invaders huts and the native male Y lineage almost completely wiped out of the gene pool. Neolithic and Copper Age Europe was not hunter gatherers displaced to different hunting grounds, these were very large populations of farmers and herdsmen that were displaced off their land and left unable to reproduce by a hostile invader with superior weapons and the means to take land, possessions and women. For another group of invaders of the same period, such a task would have been an impossible task, yet the invaders had the means to raid, kill and steal with relative ease and that is what the anthropological evidence shows, a population replacement by those only with the means to to do the deed.
To further prove that this was not climate change or a global flood that washed away the Is and the Gs to leave the Steppe population to take over Europe, a 100% European Neolithic woman was found in the dwelling of a Steppe male in Central Europe at the beginning of the Steppe invasion of Europe and displacement of the Neolithic male population. To find these smoking guns means this happened in thousands of other cases. No study has shown that neolithic woman had the plague, though a detailed study could provide further evidence. Neolithic women were assaulted, and the Neolithic males were removed from breeding, either in violence against the males or simply taking women in raiding parties. There is evidence of violence against Europeans from the Balkans to Western Europe by steppe barbarians. [The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe by Olalde et al. (2018)] [Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe by Morten E. Allentoft et al.] [Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia by Kristian Kristiansen et al.]
"Only toward the latest stages of the Neolithic (in Europe), the concept of specialized warriorhood slowly started to emerge. The perpetrators of violence might have become more clearly defined, while lethal raids and indiscriminate massacres still occurred, as multiple examples show (e.g., refs. (38, 70, and 71)). In the following Bronze Age, the face of conflict changed even further, to include specialized weapons of violence and large-scale battles likely fought by dedicated warriors (72)." [Conflict, violence, and warfare among early farmers in Northwestern Europe, Linda Fibiger et al, 2023]
The 2021 Papac et al. study on Corded Ware migrations in Bohemia found abrupt cultural replacement and genetic turnover, which could be linked to violent takeover [
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi6941]. "Europe’s prehistory oversaw dynamic and complex interactions of diverse societies, hitherto unexplored at detailed regional scales. Studying 271 human genomes dated ~4900 to 1600 BCE from the European heartland, Bohemia, we reveal unprecedented genetic changes and social processes. Major migrations preceded the arrival of “steppe” ancestry, and at ~2800 BCE, three genetically and culturally differentiated groups coexisted. Corded Ware appeared by 2900 BCE, were initially genetically diverse, did not derive all steppe ancestry from known Yamnaya, and assimilated females of diverse backgrounds. Both Corded Ware and Bell Beaker groups underwent dynamic changes, involving sharp reductions and complete replacements of Y-chromosomal diversity at ~2600 and ~2400 BCE". They mention warfare in their interpretation, specifically "possibly due to increased conflict between male-mediated patrilines". "Our results suggest that the Y-lineage diversity in early CW males was supplanted by a nonrandom process [selection, social structure, or influx of nonlocal R1a-M417(xZ645) lineages] that drove the collapse in Y-chromosomal diversity." [Dynamic changes in genomic and social structures in third millennium BCE central Europe, Luka Papac et al, 2021;
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi6941]
On the taking of women from Neolithic males: "Furthermore, women were not related to the men within the household, suggesting that men stayed within their birth communities in this society, but women did not." [Kinship-based social inequality in Bronze Age Europe, Alissa Mittnik et al, 2019;
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax6219] There was no widespread survival of Neolithic males from taking Steppe women in bride exchanges; this disposing of Neolithic women to Steppe invaders was therefore not in the benefit of the Neolithic male population in every way, which means these Neolithic women were taken in violence or threat of violence. With violence happening to the woman for the remainder of her existence. This clears the false notion that 100% of ancient and prehistory man was bad and backward. There were racial groups that were trying to build community and racial groups trying to destroy community. It was not there was genocide and abuse equally dispersed among races and tribes. There were certain groups that made it their identity and way of carrying on their lines.
The Steppe invaders had access to vast amounts of copper for bronze weapons from various sources in Europe and beyond. Horses were also very numerous to give the two main ingredients to raiding on horse. "Fortifications and Warfare in the Neolithic/Chalcolithic Transition" Kristiansen et al. (2017) argues that the Corded Ware Culture (a Yamnaya-derived group) spread through militarized migration, as evidenced by fortified settlements and weapon-rich burials. Links the rise of warrior identities to steppe-derived groups displacing Neolithic communities. "It remains beyond question that the observed change in the gene pool must have involved the migration of people." The replacement of the native male lines of Neolithic Europe was due to the migration of the Steppe raiders on horse.
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, Anthony synthesizes archaeological evidence of horse-based warfare and fortified sites during the Yamnaya expansion. Suggests Steppe groups used military advantages (e.g., horses, wheeled vehicles) to dominate Neolithic populations. [The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, David Anthony, 2007]. About two decades ago the archaeological sites proved violent conflict ended Neolithic Europe and Copper Age Europe. With many research papers since painting the genetic picture of the culprits and the victims of that population replacement.
The whole body of evidence paints the same picture of the genocide of Neolithic Europe by steppe invaders that replaced male lines throughout much of Europe for land and women, because the invaders had the means to accomplish this task with ease.