His copper may have come from Alpine ore deposits that have been geochemically traced.

His food shows the products of an agricultural economy integrated into a wider exchange network.

And then, beginning around 3000 BCE and accelerating over the following centuries, something new arrived from the east.

The steppe populations — the Yamnaya and related cultures — who had developed a powerful combination of mobile pastoralism, horse domestication, and wheel-based transport on the Pontic steppe began a westward expansion that would, over roughly five centuries, largely replace or transform the genetic character of most European populations.

The Neolithic farmers whose descendants built Stonehenge and the megalithic monuments of Atlantic Europe were replaced — not necessarily violently, although there is some evidence for violent episodes — by populations carrying the steppe ancestry that now characterizes the majority of modern Europeans.