Here is a nice compilation of Hunic history.
http://chronica.freebase.hu/huns/histwhitehuns.htm
More and more I can see that Huns were the continuation of Scythians Empire. It makes sense to assume that East Scythians looked more Mongoloid and West more Caucasoid.
They were all called Huns because they called their leaders Khan.
We could describe Huns, Khans, Khanats (kingdoms) as all people under Scythian cultural influence. All these people dressed the same, ride horses and shoot same bows, eat raw horse meet, etc, etc.
The Turks, Mongols, Bulgars, Magiars, Tatars, Khitai, Khazar, they were all Huns and most likely, at one point, belonging to Scythian Empire, till about 300 AD when global cooling (cooling after warm Roman period) dried the steppes and pushed them out in all directions (well, except North).
We can see similar situation in 12 hundreds BC, beginning of little ice age (after medieval warm period), when the rest of Huns, Mongols and Tatars where pushed out into China, Middle East and Europe, again.
These are Scythians of 4th century BC. The clothes and bows are exactly same used by Mongols 1,600 years later.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Scythians_shooting_with_bows_Kertch_antique_Panticapeum_Ukrainia_4th_century_BCE.jpg
Here is a nice compilation of Hunic history.
http://chronica.freebase.hu/huns/histwhitehuns.htm
More and more I can see that Huns were the continuation of Scythians Empire. It makes sense to assume that East Scythians looked more Mongoloid and West more Caucasoid.
They were all called Huns because they called their leaders Khan.
We could describe Huns, Khans, Khanats (kingdoms) as all people under Scythian cultural influence. All these people dressed the same, ride horses and shoot same bows, eat raw horse meet, etc, etc.
The Turks, Mongols, Bulgars, Magiars, Tatars, Khitai, Khazar, they were all Huns and most likely, at one point, belonging to Scythian Empire, till about 300 AD when global cooling (cooling after warm Roman period) dried the steppes and pushed them out in all directions (well, except North).
We can see similar situation in 12 hundreds BC, beginning of little ice age (after medieval warm period), when the rest of Huns, Mongols and Tatars where pushed out into China, Middle East and Europe, again.
These are Scythians of 4th century BC. The clothes and bows are exactly same used by Mongols 1,600 years later.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Scythians_shooting_with_bows_Kertch_antique_Panticapeum_Ukrainia_4th_century_BCE.jpg
It seams to me that their past Budda religion, Turkic related language and Indian related R1a haplogroup ,en masse in Hungarian individuals ,strongly places them at the geographic location where Afganistan is today. So they are originally Asian stock now mixed with slavic and germanic blood.
Remember! Some of the greatest Budda sculptures, now destroyed by Taliban are in Afganistan, So it seems that at some point in time they were there or in their vicinities. Keeping in mind that Afgans are not linguistically unified country, huns were one portion of this small nation. There is not another explanation for their Ugralic language which are located there, or for their Budda past. There were two cities Budda and Pest that when united formed todays Budapest. Budda was a commemaration of their religious hero. So any efort to portray todays Hungarians as indoeuropean is brutality against reality.
If they were resembling todays Mongols, today's Hungarians would have looked partly the same since they have a Hun-ic past. So my view is that their look was mixed caucasian and mongolic, the same way Yzbekistan people look today They formed the core of Huns. As they moved through slavic territories they absorbed slavs which learned their language and the group become bigger. The haplogroup R1a in Hungarians is only for minor part Slav, the rest is their own.
A couple points here id like to contest. Minority settlers can impose their cultural, linguistic and genetic traits upon majorities, even to the point that these new settlers, new culture overtakes the old majority culture. This can happen because of several factors, technology being the biggest reason for a cultural take over. This take over by small cultural minorities has happened countless times throughout history. Also, you seem to think that the Magyars and Huns are interchangable, this is not true, these are two different peoples and settled in Hungary at different points in time. The Magyars left the biggest impact on modern day Hungary, and most likley arrived circa 1000 YBP, their biggest impact on modern Hungary was their language, which is related to Finnish and is part of the Uralic language family. The Huns were a completely different people, although the term Hun is thought to be of other origins, ill call these Central Asian invaders Huns for convienence. These people invaded the hungarian plain at the fall of the Roman Empire, and their language is unknown to us, it was most likley a member of the Turkic language family. The largest impact of the Huns would have been leaving some minor cultural practices, but probably nothing of which sustained itself to our present day. But what you must understand is that only non Hungarians know it as Hungary, the citizens of Hungary call it Magyarorszag, after the Magyars. the reason we know it as Hungary is because this is what it was called after a medieval aliiance was formed, or this is what is thought.
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