Yeah, monkeys. Why? I'll tell you why:
Compared to their neighbors Andronovo folks were really uncivilized, backward/stupid people with lower and much more primitive culture.
China with its thinkers/philosophers to the east was much, much, mcuh more advanced than Andronovo. And East Aryan Zoroasrian BMAC folks who invaded the Indus Valley were also much more highly advanced people, compared to those 'monkeys' in the Steppes.
There is a new study I came across on
www.anthrogenica.com (
http://www.anthrogenica.com/showthr...-legacy-of-Zoroastrianism&p=163458#post163458) that is saying that the ancient East Iranian Zoroastrian people were similar to the Neolithic Iranian samples. We know today that those Neolithic Iranian samples were full of CHG (
ANE & Gedrosia). Even current modern-day Pakistani and Indian populations are highly related to the Iranian Plateau and to the ANCIENT Zoroastrians.
For me, it is a great evidence that CHG ARYANS from the Iranian Plateau migrated into the Indus Valley.
Don't forget this GREAT fact that the ancient East Iranian Zoroastrians of BMAC and those who invaded the Indus Valley were
similar to the Neolithic Iranian samples FROM the Iranian Plateau.
Modern-day West Iranian are a little bit different from those ancient CHG Aryans, because modern-day Iranians, like Kurds & Persians, are mixed a little bit with the ancient Anatolian farmers.
"
Interestingly, analysis of ancestry patterns revealed strong affinities of the Neolithic Iranian sample to modern-day Pakistani and Indian populations, and particularly to Iranian Zoroastrians, in stark contrast to Neolithic samples from Europe. We also identify, describe and date recent admixture events in modern-day Iranian groups that have altered their current genetic make-up relative to these ancient origins. "
http://quantitative-genomics.com/programme/QuantGen16ConferenceBook.pdf
But from the ancient samples we know that ancient Iranian Plateau folks were not really mixed with the Anatolian Farmers. While modern-day Iranian groups (they don't mention particular groups) are a little bit different from those ancient 'more' CHG-folks. Btw, I'm sure that Kurds are much more 'pure' that the Persians. Over time Persians even lost an ergativity construction in their language.
Kurdish language is more pure and closer to the ancient Aryan source than Persian. After so many thousands of years, Kurdish has still en ergativity construction, while Persian (Farsi) lost an ergativity during the Middle-Farsi times..
Ancient East Iranian Zoroastrian Aryans were very close to the Neolithic CHG Iranians.
This is
game, set, match for those who believe that Aryans were NOT native to the Iranian Plateau! Ancient Zoroasttrian Aryan samples are the last nail in the coffin of their wild fantasies.
From now on the 'Iranian CHG' auDNA is forever associated and linked with/to the ancient Aryan people, who brought civilizations into the Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley! CHG = ANE (Gedrosian), ANE could be actually native to the Iranian Plateau. But because of the Anatolian Farmer auDNA that migrated also eastwards, the CHG (ANE) auDNA diluted a little bit on it's original birthplace.
The Iranian Plateau (
Southern Caspian shores/Leyla-Tepe/Northwestern Zagros) (+birthplace of Zarathustra) was Aryan, it does belong to the Aryans and it will be forever Aryan...