Steppe Ancestry
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Showing an early entry of steppe ancestry into India
The author challenges claims that steppe ancestry entered India only in the late Iron Age or Early Historic period, using the geography of routes from the steppe, patterns of modern…
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How much steppe is there in Pakistan?
Answering a claim that Pakistanis carry much steppe maternal ancestry, the author cites a mitogenome study finding about 8.4 per cent steppe mtDNA among northern Pakistani Indo-Iranian speakers, and what…
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Lakshmi
Reading about the Corded Ware culture for his steppe series, the author explains that its mature phase is about 70 per cent Yamnaya, with farmer ancestry coming through women, and…
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To the victors go the glory!
Introducing his steppe series, the author argues the subcontinent was stamped by the steppe: Indo-Aryans (about 15 per cent of ancestry), possibly Iron Age pastoralists, and the Muslims, who had…
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Steppe lineages in northern Pakisan
The author flags a mitogenome paper on northern Pakistani Indo-Iranian speakers, reproducing its abstract: about 8.4 per cent of their maternal gene pool traces to Steppe-rooted lineages dated to roughly…
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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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Open Thread – 01/02/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 2 January 2021: the poster doubts how Niraj Rai’s tweet that Bronze Age steppe migration was a myth is being read, restating his view that about 14 per…
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How much “steppe” ancestry is there in South Asia? (Indian subcontinent)
A back-of-the-envelope estimate by the author that about 14 per cent of ancestry in South Asia, around 220 million people, derives from steppe Sintashta pastoralists, with 20 to 25 per…
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The Jats and Indo-Aryan expansion in South Asia
The author argues that the high steppe ancestry of Haryanvi and western UP Jats reflects their location in the Vedic Kuru heartland, quoting Michael Witzel, and not later Indo-Scythian migration,…
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The Arctic home of the Aryans
Razib Khan discusses a preprint on ancient genomes from northwestern Russia, showing Fatyanovo Corded Ware people carried steppe and early farmer ancestry from a fast migration northeast, and links this…
