Recent content by markozd

Some people simply don't care. I certainly don't. I'd abrogate my national and ethnic allegiances in a heartbeat if I could afford nice apartment in downtown Buenos Aires or something :embarassed:

The Romans and Macedonian were in matters of warfare much more sophisticated than the Greeks. Philip II could conquer Greece because of his tactical & strategic innovations. This is completely unlike Rome's struggle with the Barbarians - a well prepared Roman army always defeated the Germanics...

Now that you mention it, the usernames are quite similar too. I totally didn't make the connection :D Good analysis by the way, I was thinking along those lines as well. I wonder if the Swiss HG population extended into Anatolia & surroundings as well before mixing with those other HGs...

Barbarian invasions tended to be the norm rather than something unusual up until recently, and few peoples in history were spared that fate. The archetypical barbarians of late antiquity - the Slavs and the Germanics - surely owed much of their expansions to the adoption of the warlike culture...

Someone on athrogenica dug this up from Lazaridis et al. . I had never noticed this: I had said earlier in the thread that it is my belief that basal diversity under R1 is concentrated in the populations west of the Persian Gulf. This suggests that the best proxy for the near eastern admixture...

Yeah those samples are classified as wild in table S2 in the supplements, the earliest domesticated samples being Anatolia & Portugal. The haplotypes in the Portuguese samples is very eastern though, so I doubt they are native. Not sure about the Anatolian samples - the culture in question is...

At least that's what it looks like to me. In the Amorim (2018) paper the Germanics from Late Antiquity are already differentiated from North-Eastern Europeans like Balto-Slavs, so I doubt the difference is just due to drift. Relative to modern Germanics also, most of the samples from...

I think the authors sought to address Anthony's idea of endemic warfare in the steppe, which made those cultures become expanionist and militaristic. It seems that this wasn't the case.

It's awesome that these results have essentially confirmed that the East-West differentation in Europe exists due to hunter gatherer admixture. The ancient Germanic samples published recently had hugely inflated WHG ancestry in the ADMIXTURE run, but I'm not sure how reliable this is. They...

found on: indo-european.eu The adaptation to fast life histories as the authors call it is interesting considering what we know of the DNA of the steppe cultures. Fertility was very high, and adolescent women (10-14) seem to be quite frequent among the dead. The authors suggest that this is...

Yes, a wild horse from north-eastern Romania and another one from Germany carry the same Y-DNA-haplotype. We don't know if they were actual Przewalski horses however, or if they were on the clade leading to modern domesticates with some introgression from eastern wild horses on the male line...

Abstract: This is very interesting, as it clearly suggests that horses were domesticated by various cultures of the Neolithic. The earliest domestic horses came from northern Anatolia (2700-2200 B.C.E.), followed by Portuguese Zambujal culture whose population seems to have domesticated horses...

I wonder if steppe-admixed groups with R1a-L657 could have come to India-Pakistan from Afghanistan via a more southern route after coming down from the steppe, explaining the lack of L657 further north until the Iron Age. Could Indo-Aryan & Dardic speakers have arrived in their respective...

The Veneti lived almost a thousand years before the Proto-Slavs expanded, and their language was typologically close to the other Central European IE languages. Modern Slovenes are genetically & linguistically Slavic. There's no bias, those authors are quite simply deluded.

I did get that. But scratch it, I just read the thread on anthrogenica and saw comments insinuating that David Reich would push for a southern homeland because he's Jewish. Those anthrogenica guys actually are pathetic :embarassed: