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An archaeological team in London announced the discovery of legendary Boudicca's tomb at King's Cross Station in London. The article describes a chariot burial and a well preserved body of a woman with red hair...

Here's a post by Maju regarding the phylogeny of LP genes associated with certain populations. Here we see that T-13910, G-13915 and G-13907, being variously responsible for Lactase Persistence, have a genetic relationship. Moreover, given the phylogeny, these relationships seem to suggest...

We have no depictions of Beaker people that I am aware of. But while studying the rock art of North African pastoralists, I realized that the dating of some of the rock art is contemporaneous with the usage of North African Beakerware and in roughly the same location, also coinciding or slightly...

Now that everyone has had time to digest the latest Mesolithic La Brana (C-V20 + U5), I thought it would be a good time to revisit Basque origins based on what we have learned about Mesolithic Europe, especially Spain... MESOLITHIC EUROS.............................. BASQUES NO R1B...

Lactase Persistence (ability to digest raw milk comfortably) appears suddenly in Europe after the late neolithic where it was virtually absent before. In Northwestern Europe today it reaches into the ninetieth percentile and in some areas is almost uniformly present. It then forms a cline that...

I wonder if swaddling artificially changed the head shape of Bell Beaker men. Swaddling boards and binds were once very common in Europe and among Indo-European peoples. Swaddling was also very common among Native Americans such as the Navajo, Inuit, Comanche's, Aztec's and all the rest...

Dienekes has linked to a study which is probably in the top ten biggest anthropology news stories this year: http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2013/11/early-cattle-management-in-ne-china.html In short, we continue to see very interesting cultural connections between ancient Northeast Asia and the...

Did Haplogroup R* (NE or Central Asian hunter-gatherers) inject ceramic technology in Near Eastern farming cultures of the Early Neolithic??? Rhetorical question..thoughts.. An interesting a note to start; ceramic technology is first associated with hunter-gatherer peoples in the east, such as...

The 24,000 year old Mal'ta mammoth hunter encampment is rumored to show individuals to belonging to y-chromosomal haplogroup R* (no additional details) and mtdna haplogroup U*. The Afontova Gora individuals from roughly the same time also appear to have the same profile. Dienekes has posted...

I'd like to make a proposal and see the reactions: Are mound burials (tumuli) connected to peoples descending from Paleolithic P-M45 of Central Asia? (The descendants of P-M45 are essentially Q-men (Siberians, Native Americans) and R-men (West Asians, ie. R1 and R2) The tumulus is a dug grave...

GR&A: Please, no comments about ginger warriors!! Serious responses only. Let me pose the question outright: Does anyone know of a large study on Japanese Y haplotypes and the percentage of R1a in Japan? I was reading and looking at some maps in Genebase and noticed trace amounts of R1a...

http://news.discovery.com/history/ar...ody-130820.htm The above article heralds the discovery of "Cashel Man" who was a ritually sacrificed in an Irish bog 2000 B.C. [r.c. date] "Cashel Man" is placed within the Beaker period of Ireland. Regardless of his appearance, the nature of his death...

I am trying to understand the reluctance by some to associate Bell-Beaker people with Indo-Europeans. So I would like to know given the experience and opions of those on this forum, what 'specific' attributes, from any discipline, would indicate that the Beaker folk were not Indo-European? And...

Solutrean hypothesis: Native American Clovis Culture & NW Europe: (ydna Q, mtdna X2) I am posting this here because I couldn't find the original post on mtdna haplogroup X2 and its presence, mostly limited to Western Europe and the Americas. Then I found a discussion on Ydna haplogroup Q...

Hello everyone, I've read this site for several years but this will be my first post and appreciate your responses. Does anyone know anything about these two markers DYS490=10 and DYS534=16? It appears from reading various blogs that SRY-2627 can be divided into two groups: 1) =12, =15...