Why are the Corded Ware and Kurgan theories incompatible?

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The Indo European Urheimat is represented by the Yamna culture or the "Yamna Horizon". The Corded Ware was an offshoot of the Yamna culture that spread across Northern Europe. A Corded Ware Urheimat would theory have meant that the Indo European Language was from Europe, not the Caucuses or the Pontic Steppe region.

North European hypothesis (Nordicism)

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The Corded Ware culture appears to have introduced Indo-European languages to a large part of Northern Europe. However, it doesn't appear to have been the origin of the IE languages, because there are no traces of it in Greece, India, or Iran, where IE languages have existed since about the same period when Corded Ware was active.

Therefore, the Corded Ware culture must be one of several successor cultures to the culture where IE languages originated. Other successors spread IE languages to regions that Corded Ware never occupied.

The Kurgan culture is the current most common choice for the origin of the IE languages, and Corded Ware is a plausible successor culture to Kurgan, from what we know about them.

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