A video on the Sintashta Culture

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Razib Khan

Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary. Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin.

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Ugra
Ugra
4 years ago

For population estimates of the Sintashta culture – Alan Johnson, Denis Sharapov and Kohl have done work. An Indian twitter user, Divodasa/Atithigva, collated the sources.

Alan Johnson estimates a maximum of 8200 individuals living at any particular time spread across 21 settlements. The minimum number was 4900 individuals.

Denis Sharapov estimated 21k individuals with a maximum sustainability limit of 1000 individuals per settlement.

Kohl estimates only “several hundred inhabitants” per settlement.

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