Sintashta
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The Indo-Iranians go west!
Razib Khan examines why Sintashta-related ancestry seems lower in much of Iran than among Indo-Aryans in northwest South Asia, finding his qpAdm results erratic and using R1a1a lineage data to…
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Brahmins were made in India, not the steppe
Razib Khan reads Narasimhan et al.’s Y-chromosome data to argue that Brahmin lineages, from UP, Punjab and elsewhere, mix steppe R1a with many local lineages, so Brahmins were formed in…
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The Sintashta shamans
Razib Khan wonders whether the Kalash of Chitral, about 30 per cent Sintashta in ancestry, can show what early Indo-Aryan belief was like, noting their mountain shamanism resembles steppe shamanism…
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The Sintashta were swarthy
Razib Khan checks Sintashta pigmentation loci and finds they were much darker complected than modern northern Europeans, probably closer to Sardinians, which helps explain why many North Indians with steppe…
