[SunkenCiv]

[subtitle] DNA from 2,000-year-old skeleton may put Indo-Europeans in East Asia

Gold belt ornaments such as this one lay among items placed in the ancient tomb of a man in eastern Asia whose genetic makeup points to Indo-European ancestry. [Credit: Kim, et al.]

[GeronL]

very very early explorer?

[SunkenCiv]

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[rdl6989]

but they speak in a whispered double helix.

Maybe that's what's on the belt buckle in the photo.

[TigerLikesRooster]

I saw the documentary where the research of these men was described(Korean documentary.) They said that the distribution of Caucasoid skeletons(in Xiongnu elite' tombs) are not confined to the Western part of Mongolia, as we are first inclined to suspect. Those skeletons were found in W. Mongolia and E. Mongolia, while mostly Mongoloid skeletons are found in mid-Mongolia.

They also claimed that skeletons of ruling elites of ancient Silla Kingdom in S.E. Korea, according to their investigation, has paternal Mongoloid and maternal Caucasoid(Scythian is what they referred to.) They went on to speculate that the Caucasian Eastern Xiongu elites may have genetically connected to Silla elites.

[wildbill]

He was on one of those trips where you go over to another country to find a foreign wife.

HAMILTON, ON, February 1, 2010–Researchers excavating an ancient Roman cemetery made a surprising discovery when they extracted ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from one of the skeletons buried at the site: the 2,000-year-old bones revealed a maternal East Asian ancestry.

Apparently there was widespread intercontinental dating in those days, centering on the city of Shangrila.

[PzLdr]

I read somewhere that Chinnghis Quan supposedly had reddish hair, and green eyes.

[smokingfrog]

Time traveler?
(I’ve been listening to Coast to Coast AM too much.)

[Citizen Tom Paine]

There is no question that ancient man (and ancient woman) roamed around a lot. Was it droughts? Wars? Who knows? Or just wondering if the hunting was better over the next hill?