Sakas
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Why Scythians, Sakas, and Kushanas, are NOT the source of “steppe” ancestry
Quoting a genetics paper on South and Central Asia, the author argues that Scythians, Sakas, Kushans and Huns cannot be the main source of South Asia’s steppe ancestry, because present-day…
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The Jatts do descend from Scythians
A short post pointing to a new paper on the genetic ancestry of modern Indus Valley populations in north-west India, under a title claiming the Jatts descend from Scythians.
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Turanistan & the Scythians of India
Observes that the largest concentrations of Scythians are in the Subcontinent’s border zones, recalling that Gujjars, Kambojas, Rajputs and Jats have Scythic or Iranian associations, and that these northwestern invaders…
