Alan
Elite member
- Messages
- 2,518
- Reaction score
- 452
- Points
- 83
- Ethnic group
- Kurdish
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- R1a1a1
- mtDNA haplogroup
- HV2a1 +G13708A
Excluding all linguistic viewpoints, I think that Central Asian Turkic peoples have preserved much better the steppe traditions than for example Western Europeans who are permeated by Mediterranean culture and whatever remains there are of proto-European cultures in Europe.
PIE were never a pred. steppic people to begin with. They were a mountainous people for most. Only the Indo_Iranian branch turned into steppic/mountainous mixed livestyle.