Angela
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Oh dear...is Eurogenes going to be upset? I'm afraid there were no blonde/blue eyed cowboys of the steppe. They were Sardinian like at the best.
The serious takeaway is that those academics who have postulated that this phenotype was not very common in the Bronze Age, and really only rapidly increased in frequency in northern and particularly northeastern Europe in relatively recent times are probably correct. The question is why.
Correlation is not causation, but the trajectory seems to be the same as for lactase persistence, which is why I have in the past suggested that investigating a link between the two might be productive.
Fwiw I wouldn't call Sardinians and Greeks "swarthy" as a whole. I think I might reserve that for the Levant, or just say that the pigmentation is similar to certain Southern Europeans.
Indians really "are" obsessed with pigmentation.
See:
https://www.brownpundits.com/2019/09/12/the-sintashta-were-swarthy/
The serious takeaway is that those academics who have postulated that this phenotype was not very common in the Bronze Age, and really only rapidly increased in frequency in northern and particularly northeastern Europe in relatively recent times are probably correct. The question is why.
Correlation is not causation, but the trajectory seems to be the same as for lactase persistence, which is why I have in the past suggested that investigating a link between the two might be productive.
Fwiw I wouldn't call Sardinians and Greeks "swarthy" as a whole. I think I might reserve that for the Levant, or just say that the pigmentation is similar to certain Southern Europeans.
Indians really "are" obsessed with pigmentation.
See:
https://www.brownpundits.com/2019/09/12/the-sintashta-were-swarthy/