Recent content by skaheen15

Yeah, the information about Vinča was reported at the beginning of the summer, back in June, IIRC. I'm honestly not sure how different they would look using Stuttgart as a reference, but, the main point I took from everything I read was that everyone was surprised at how much WHG Vinča had, and...

I think you're probably right. But the way that it increased, slowly, from 25% to just over 50%, as Khvalynsk slowly morphed into Yamnaya/Afanasievo, makes me think that it was definitely trickling in from somewhere else, rather than just somehow increasing from a "teal" supply that was already...

I took him to be suggesting that either the "teal" came with the copper, or was native to the steppe, and I was addressing the former possibility. I may have gotten him wrong. In any case, the entire subject is pretty complex, many possible twists.

Now that's thinkin' outside the box ;D I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand, but I think it's doubtful, and here's why. Vinča were the original Balkan copper kings(they were making copper foil around 5000 BCE, for christ's sake), and they were at their peak right around the time Khvalynsk popped...

It really is like arguing with a creationist or something like that. Oh, great paper, by the way. This was the best part: "We caution against ascribing findings from a contemporary phylogenetic cluster of a single genetic locus to a particular pre-historic demographic event, population...

And, the projector comes on! 1. Almost everything you claim is totally speculative. When you're faced with facts that don't appeal to you, because of your screamingly obvious bias, you just accuse the source of bias, and move on. Wash, rinse, repeat. 2. The earliest known M198 was found in...

You wrote: "East European admixture in Siberia and Mongolia is from the assimilated Slavic (Russian) people". That's what you wrote. Again, Sintashta was in Siberia, and, very obviously were recent immigrants from northeastern Europe, very recent indeed. I'm not sure if you can read a PCA...

Kind of like how you desperately(see, I can type in boldface too!) want your own ethnic group to be the center of the entire human species? You see that thing you do? The thing where you accuse everyone who disagrees with you of being biased and dogmatic, all the time? There's a name for that...

The earliest R1a carrier we've seen, from Mesolithic Karelia, had negligible near-eastern ancestry. The earliest M417(ancestral to Z93) so far was found in eastern Europe. *Z93(descended from M417, which we know Corded Ware had) is in eastern Europe, in very small numbers, almost as if it...

You're making some very good points, and I agree with a lot of the things you're saying. It's true that genetic engineering services will probably be available to monied folks in the future(and I agree that it's not comparable to cell phones or washing machines, as big as those innovations...

It's not "Maciamo's theory", it's quite well established at this point, through various lines of evidence, that R1a and R1b were the primary Y signatures carried by IE speaking men, read the recent studies. The key word there is "primary". It's also fairly well established that certain subclades...

No, the topic was whether or not Dravidians, Australian natives, and south Pacific folk are classified as Australoid, and, they are. I'm not sure why that otherwise valid map classed all of India as Caucasoid, probably just laziness since the situation in India is more complex, but...

LOL yeah, I saw that the map from 1893 does class Australians and South Sea folk as Negroid, but I prefer to go with the one from the 21st century, on display at the Horniman museum in London, which classes the same people as Australoid, which has the same origins as the "negroid" term, and is...

No, I'm definitely not joking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australoid_race "They were described as having dark skin with wavy hair, in the case of the Veddoid race of South Asia (including the eponymous Vedda people indigenous to Sri Lanka) and Aboriginal Australians, or hair ranging...

Dravidians and native Australians aren't negroid, they're Australoid. Dark skin doesn't equal negroid, that term describes a set of craniometric and facial features. And what does that have to do with V88 in any case? You're confused.