[SunkenCiv]

The University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group joined an international team conducting the study which spanned an 8,000-year period. Credit: University of Huddersfield

[Rockingham]

The predominance of the invaders’ males lineages suggests that native males were killed off.

[Vaquero]

This is the makings of a Conan the Barbarian film. We’ll never know the exact history

[Travis McGee]

“By the Early Bronze Age, 500 years later, these newcomers represented about 40% of Iberia’s genetic pool - but virtually 100% of their male lineages. This suggests that the newcomers were mainly men, and that - somehow - they all but replaced the men living there previously, whilst the local women survived the takeover.”

“Somehow?” It’s obvious that the invaders killed all the local men and took their women by force.

This is a lesson for all ages. If you don’t defend your turf and your women, invaders will come in and take them.

[philman_36]

What a coincidence.
Arrival of Beaker folk changed Britain for ever, ancient DNA study shows First published on Wed 21 Feb 2018 13.00 EST
The largest ever study on ancient DNA has shown that Britain was changed forever by the arrival of the Beaker folk, a wave of migrants about 4,500 years ago who brought with them new customs, new burial practices, and beautiful, distinctive bell-shaped pottery.

[Wuli]

For those, like me, than wanted to see where the Russian steppes are:

“The Eurasian Steppe extends thousands of miles from near the mouth of the Danube almost to the Pacific Ocean. It is bounded on the north by the forests of European Russia, Siberia and Asian Russia. There is no clear southern boundary although the land becomes increasingly dry as one moves south.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Steppe

As for the “mouth of the Danube”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube

Seeing the European range of what linguists call the Indo-European languages, which they say entered Europe and the Indian subcontinent from some common source, and seeing the course of the Danube (from Germany into the Black Sea), it would not seem unlikely to me that the Danube and its course were part of the routes by which the Indo-European speaking people entered western Europe. I bet there is a trail of ancient DNA from the steppes all along the route of the Danube. And the headwaters of the Danube are not far from the headwaters of the Rhone, which flows south to the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of Iberia.

[gdc61]

Obviously Conan the Barbarian explained it best....

“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!”

[ek_hornbeck]

According to genetic analyses of ancient human remains, there were 3 waves of migration that gave rise to Europeans - the original hunter-gatherers who were mostly displaced by farmers whose ancestors came from what is now Turkey (Stonehenge was built by these people). These Near-Eastern farmers were in turn (at least on the male line) largely displaced by the "Beaker People" of what is now south central Russia (including what was called Scythia in Roman times). When you see Europeans with fair features, that's the influence of the Beaker people, those with darker features are showing Near-Eastern ancestry (southern Europe had less of the Beaker People bloodline than Northern Europe).

Apparently, the Beaker People also conquered Persia and India, and established the caste system in the latter to minimize socializing and interbreeding between rulers and ruled.

[gaijin]

ping

reminded me of your Western Shooters story about The Moliorch Way, somewhat like the story of the Maori, it seemed.

[blam]

Yup. They domesticated the horse, loaded their wagons and headed off the drought stricken steppes.(They're the Red-Headed Mummies in China too)

[Paal Gulli]

Rush Limbaugh’s Undeniable Truth of Life #6: Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.