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rms2 : "Afanasievo is not Tocharian, neither is it certain that the Tarim mummies were Tocharians." Indeed but the probability is still high in both cases (Afanasevo culture speaking the ancestor of Tocharian and the Tarim mummies speaking recent ancestor of Tocharian languages).That's...

Not sure at all about R1b. So far, only R1a1a is visible in the aDNA of the region of Afanasevo culture. In south Siberia, during bronze age, all the y-DNA was R1a1 and the mtDNA lineages were 90% west Eurasian (67% during Iron age) in "Ancient DNA provides new insights into the history of...

I wonder why barely noone seem to take mtDNA hgs into consideration... The Finns are 60 % N1c but about 95% of their female lineages are "European". Their autosomal profile is clearly fully European even though they are among the further from the European average, like south Italians. It's...

Thracian : "Even Uyghurs Turks have European DNA.How can be possible?" Indo-european migrations. An early wave around 3,500 BC at the origin of the Afanasevo culture, apparently coming from the north of the black sea (it could be at the origin of the tocharian language), then later some...

"it is called so since some people believe people of certain Turkic descent" "I doubt this has anything to do with Turkish descent" I doubt it too. And I have it as well.

Oops, I forgot the link and apparently I can't edit for some reason.... Willy : "this is ok with real research not opinion or speculations" It's not speculations. Archeology, linguistics and now even genetics seem to support the Kurgan hypothesis so far. Here's a few informations. I knew...

Willy : "this is ok with real research not opinion or speculations" It's not speculations. Archeology, linguistics and now even genetics seem to support the Kurgan hypothesis so far. Here's a few informations. I knew a few things about the Tarim Mummies before but I learnt a few surprising...