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Bruh, Avars were not Indo-European. They were probably some kind of Turko-Mongolic group from Central Asia originally. Like the Huns before them, they may have absorbed a variety of people into their confederation along the way, including some Indo-European populations. Some people link them to...

Fair enough. The ones I was talking about were mainly the "Jersey" type. But come to think of it, the ones in Italy and other parts of Europe itself were much better looking and more balanced. So maybe you're right.

I used to really have a thing for Italian women when I was younger because of certain individuals I knew, but over time I've gone in the opposite direction. A lot of them have somewhat harsher features like overly strong beaky sometimes curved noses and horsey faces (there are still many...

You also have falconem > halcón, vs. French faucon, among many others. The shift of initial 'f' to 'h' was gradual but was completed by Late Medieval Spanish, around the early 1400s from what I recall. It didn't go straight from a full 'f' as we know it to an unpronounced 'h', though, rather...

Honestly, I don't even know what to believe anymore with these DNA tests, especially the ancient ones. The further back you go, the more of everything we all are, so ultimately it's a matter of choice and whatever you feel the most cultural connection with. I guess I feel a vague sense of...

Adding an e- in front of a Latin word starting with s- and some other consonant right after was a common innovation of much of Western Romance, particularly in Iberia (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan) and Gaul (French, Occitan, etc.), but also Sardinian too. It isn't a phenomenon unique to...

This happened fairly commonly in all the Romance languages, but its a pretty normal process in linguistic evolution; things change over time, meanings become corrupted, although that word is putting a kind of negative spin on it. In fact the inherited vocabulary of a language is more likely to...

One thing that I wonder about is why the Anatolian branch groups of all the IE ones didn't really seem to get any Steppe related ancestry. Some think they were a very early offshoot or even broke off before PIE proper happened. Could it be that before PIE was in the Pontic steppe, they came from...

Looking purely at inherited etymology and phonetic evolution, rather than semantics, you can also add Romanian 'câștiga', from Lat. 'castigare', which underwent an unusual development in sense, meaning to "win" now. There may be a word 'cătină' that may derive from 'catena', and refers to...

Yeah I believe that most of I2a is of Paleo-Balkan Thraco-Daco-Illyrian origin, although those peoples also spread north to an extent in antiquity (as far as western/southern Ukraine possibly), so some of the Slavs that migrated south eventually may have absorbed some of those people in the...

Um, no. I'm not sure where you decided on that arbitrary grouping but maybe you need to be more intimately acquainted with the region before making generalizations. Bosnians are rather Slavic actually. Just because they're Muslim doesn't change things. Romania and Bulgaria are similar and have...

Wait, Southern Chinese?? Is that some new finding? I thought Native Americans derived from a Central-East Siberian/North Asian population which in the past had absorbed some ancient West Eurasian/Proto-Caucasian before moving across the Bering Strait to the Americas thousands of years ago? If...

How are people getting such low numbers on the Single mode when these are ancient, supposedly distant samples? Distance to: Nicu 10.05644569 Late_Medieval_Latium_(n=16) 11.27917107 6th-century_Piedmont_(Italians_&_Lombards)_(n=24) 12.37316855 Western_Scythians_(n=28) 12.70523514...

Cool, yeah I mean clearly those results are overwhelmingly Euro of course, which makes sense, but it would still be interesting. I guess there are more samples from those populations and not as much representation from others. I actually recently heard the south part of the country is heavily...

I have to say that this may have some truth to it. I get the impression that over time they seem to have worked on "consolidating" more of the ancestry reports into bigger, cleaner, major categories, often overlooking minor amounts of ancestry that differ from that or just stuffing/subsuming it...

Did they not have African samples as well for this thing? I thought Brazilians were mixed with that.

I am R1b (L-23), which is ultimately Yamna derived I guess. But I would think Cucuteni is mainly something different, pre IE, like I2 and G2a...

There is another service (that uses raw data from things like 23andme) to dive deeper into ancient ancestry, called Illustrative DNA. Here are my results. Anyone else try or use these guys? They also have PCA charts with modern and ancient population samples for reference.

I disagree with that; you're using too much of a blanket description for MENA and even Levantines. If you look at pictures of crowds And these are Lebanese people even; they're basically the "whitest" of the MENA bunch, so imagine what you can find in Syria, Palestine, Jordan, etc, not...

I've been hearing lately that the earliest skulls identified as truly Mongoloid anthropologically speaking are only from like 6-8 thousand BC, while proto-Amerindians crossing Beringia into the Americas have been pushed back to at least 15 - 20 thousand years ago. It's true that they are...