Decades ago I saw a National Geographic article about examination of a 50 foot tall village mound in Bulgaria. The oldest pottery was bright and colorfull with a happy mood. Around 5000 years ago the pottery changed to a dull earth color, although well formed. My immediate reaction, was “Wow, sommbody sure rained on that parade. My conclusion was that this society had been conquered and the fate of the women was great misery for centuries thereafter. Historically it has been suggested that around this time a formerly women respecting culture had been overthrown by a strongly patriarcal culture in many places in Eurasia and the middle east.
My son recently had his genes analyzed. It was a well known service, but not the one that includes Neanderthal figures. This service also offered information on parents. My mother’s parents came from East Prussia in the 1880s or 90s. My grandmother was from the Prussian pettit nobility and I have a German geneology paper going back to the 1700s, which I can’t read. My report indicated about 40% genes from Baltic and German sources, but from 6 to 9% from far, far east. My assumption was perhaps conquerers from the Golden Hoard, but who knows, perhaps much earlier. Presumably the Prussian pettit nobility would have included conquerers in the blood line. One of these days I’ll have to do my own DNA, the one that does Neanderthal. My 2 upper lateral incisors have “shoveling” which I have read is a Neanderthal trait, also very large molars.
Interesting, the two posts. Thanks for the ping.
You know isn’t it interesting that the climate change people
have gone after our food resource the cow, but haven’t had
diddly to say about horses.
Don’t they fart?
Tracing one’s genetic heritage is extremely fascinating and revealing.
An anachronistic political agenda is not the same thing as history or archaeology.
The DNA I had done didn’t include archaic DNA, I had to use my raw file to get analyzed for that. Ancestry at that time didn’t even look for or maybe just didn’t report Ashkenazi roots, which I figured would be there (and is, Ancestry just didn’t tell me). Ancestry did show a tiny (less than 1 percent) Native American, which turned out to be lurking in the archaic DNA, and originating pre-Bering Strait. :^)