Here's another. This one comes from Deleware but makes occasional trips to DC when absolutely necessary.
Posted on 10/28/2021 8:54:44 AM PDT by Sawdring
The mysterious Tarim mummies of China's western Xinjiang region are relics of a unique Bronze Age culture descended from Indigenous people, and not a remote branch of early Indo-Europeans, according to new genetic research.
The new study upends more than a century of assumptions about the origins of the prehistoric people of the Tarim Basin whose naturally preserved human remains, desiccated by the desert, suggested to many archaeologists that they were descended from Indo-Europeans who had migrated to the region from somewhere farther west before about 2000 B.C.
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They was from Indianapolis.
That mummy whose picture is in the article looks much better than Nancy Pelosi or Maxine Waters.
Instead, it now seems the Tarim people descended entirely from Ancient North Eurasians (ANE), a once-widespread Pleistocene population that had mostly disappeared about 10,000 years ago, after the end of the last ice age. ANE genetics now survive only fractionally in the genomes of some present-day populations, particularly among Indigenous people in Siberia and the Americas, the researchers wrote.
Even more interesting that the Tarim mummies come from a people group that died out, but the genetics are still present in tundra dwellers.
They didn't travel as far as we all thought.
Here's another. This one comes from Deleware but makes occasional trips to DC when absolutely necessary.
“descended from Indigenous people, and not a remote branch of early Indo-Europeans”
Seeing how “Indo-European” is a linguistic/cultural category and not a genetic one, there’s no way that a genetic analysis can actually contradict this thesis.
It’s like saying “French people aren’t part of the Romance language group because genetically, they are Germanic”.
Mostly desert in anticipation of global warming climate change four thousand years later.
Exactly. Language is a meme, not a gene.
meme /mēm noun an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.
Except we know what groups made up that linguistic group.
“Except we know what groups made up that linguistic group.”
Do we now?
So which ethnic group did the people who contributed the Indo-European names to the Sumerian king list belong to then, if we know all those groups?
The Yamnaya are the root.
Perhaps, but that doesn’t tell us anything about all the subsequent ethnic groups that adopted Indo-European languages and the associated cultural traditions.
That is one stylish hat, to say the least.
I should have figured you had this back then. But I knew you would be on this thread anyway.
And much smarter, too... 🤓
Since the Yamnaya, Corded Ware and Bell Beaker peoples are the ones who spread that language and culture, it tells us they came into contact with those other groups and spread their DNA. It tells us why northern Indians are lighter skinned with often colored eyes, for instance.
The mummy at least knows how to keep its mouth shut.
… any way we could run her against Shelia Jackson Lee? She’d be a huge improvement.
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