Posted on 11/23/2012 6:00:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Evidence of the potential genetic blending between Europeans and Asians has been discovered by a team of researchers led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) within the remains of Scythian warriors living over 2,000 years ago in the Altai region of Mongolia.
The Scythians were already documented as the first large Eurasian culture, but were believed to be the product of migration from Europe. The researchers now suggest that the genetic blending is actually a result of the expansion of Scythian culture over the mountains.
Studies on ancient mitochondrial DNA of this region suggest that the Altai Mountains played the role of a geographical barrier between West and East Eurasian lineages until the beginning of the Iron Age.
After the 7th century BC, coinciding with Scythian expansion across the Eurasian steppes, a gradual influx of East Eurasian sequences in Western steppes is detected. However, the underlying events behind the genetic admixture in Altai during the Iron Age are still unresolved: 1) whether it was a result of migratory events (eastward firstly, westward secondly), or 2) whether it was a result of a local demographic expansion in a 'contact zone' between European and East Asian people.
The Altai is a mountain range in Central Asia occupying territories of Russia and Kazakhstan to the west, and of Mongolia and China to the east.
(Excerpt) Read more at pasthorizonspr.com ...
Spatial frequency distribution maps of East Eurasian lineages -- A- Pre-Iron Age period; B- Iron Age period. Frequency values and detailed information for populations 1-8 are shown in table 3. 1- Mongolia (Altai), 2- Gorny Altai, 3- West Kazakhstan, 4- Central Kazakhstan, 5- South Kazakhstan, 6- East Kazakhstan, 7- SW Siberia, 8- Mongolia (Egyin Gol). Image: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
If I remember my Classics right, the Persians, Greeks and even the Romans feared the Scythians.
Isn’t that where Jason and the Argonauts found the golden fleece?
Scythians-—the stock of Scots and other Celts
Scythians were Iranian nomadic warriors who did not weild scythes and had nothing to do with Celtic music??
They were feared so much it left Scyth marks on your subligar!
and they still found time to invent Scyttles
Now I’m talking to myself
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scythian warrior dna site:freerepublic.com
Story of a Scythian princess
Idaea 2, daughter of King Dardanus 3 of Scythia, was the second wife of Phineus 2, the blind king and seer from Salmydessus in Thrace who received the ARGONAUTS. Idaea 2 falsely accused the sons of Phineus 2 by his former wife Cleopatra 5 of corrupting her virtue. For this charge—trying to rape their mother-in-law—the children of Phineus 2 (Plexippus 2 and Pandion 3) were shut within a burial vault where they were continually whipped. At the time, Heracles 1, who was sailing with the Boreades (Calais and Zetes), arrived to Thrace. Since the Boreades were the brothers of Cleopatra 5 they demanded that both their sister and the falsely accused youths were released. An armed conflict broke out, during which Phineus 2 was killed by Heracles 1. The released youths wished then to put Idaea 2 to death under torture, but Heracles 1 persuaded them to send her to Scythia for punishment, and there the Scythians condemned her to death.
The Scythians produced many surviving examples of gold jewelry and metalwork. I saw a traveling exhibit some years ago which was on loan from Russia and it was most impressive.
All Hail the Scythe...
It grows our food, it cuts the lawn, it chops down our enemies....
bow down to the mighty scythe
great minds etc etc....
It is one way to have a stimulating conversation I guess
Boy, this one went downhill fast.
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