Sintashta culture
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Iranic if by Land, Indic if by Sea – Explorations in R1a
Using YFull data on Y-DNA branch dates, the author argues that R1a-Z93 lineages in India formed around 2100-1800 BCE, consistent with a steppe clan moving into South Asia, beyond the…
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The Sintashta horses!
Razib Khan quotes the abstract of a paper placing the origin of modern domestic horses in the lower Volga-Don steppes, and concludes that the Sintashta seem to have triggered the…
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Hayagriva was a Sintashta!
Razib Khan quotes the abstract of an upcoming paper placing modern domestic horses’ origins in the Western Eurasian steppes, adding that the data show modern breeds are monophyletic and descend…
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The Fair-Skinned Sintashta folks did not spread Indo-Aryan languages in India
Introducing a long article in progress, the author argues that recent archaeology, notably the westward migration of Indicine cattle, can build a comprehensive case for an Out of India origin,…
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From Sintashta to Samarkand
Live notes from Professor Richard Foltz’s Cambridge lecture on Sintashta and Samarkand. They record his claims that Sintashta remains underlie Vedic ritual, that Indo-Iranians called themselves Arya, and that Bactria-Margiana…
