Unexpected ancient DNA results from pre-Islamic Bahrain. They are different from modern day Arabs living there and plot close to ancient Mesopotamian samples from Iraq. On the PCA they plot just in the vicinity of ancient samples from South Caucasus, North-West Iran and North Iraq LBA. In this group we use the term "Central farmers" for this type of ancestry.
Saturday, December 30, 2023
Unexpected ancient DNA results from pre-Islamic Bahrain.
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Origins of Dolmen culture
Origins of Dolmen culture
Sunday, December 24, 2023
The historic event
The historic event that could cause the apparition of someone (labeled as Sarmatian in Silva 2023 ) from northern regions of Armenia and Caucasus in Britain in the first half of second century AD is probably the campaign against Armenia by the Britanicum legion lead by a certain Lucius Artorius Castus.
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
The genetic story of G2b
The genetic story of G2b
Thursday, November 30, 2023
About the origins of Yervanduni (old Eruanduni, Greek Orontid) dinasty. Part II.
About the origins of Yervanduni (old Eruanduni, Greek Orontid) dinasty. Part II.
Monday, November 27, 2023
It is usually believed that the name of the Armenian king is not mentioned in the Cyropedia.
It is usually believed that the name of the Armenian king is not mentioned in the Cyropedia. Indeed if You read the English translations available on-line You will find phrases like "Armenian king" or "king of Armenians". But not any name. This is odd, because the names of his sons are mentioned: Tigranes and Sabaris. Known as Tigran and Shavarsh in Armenian. Why would the name of the king himself miss?
Friday, November 24, 2023
Here is the same model about the Black sea coast but without the "Central farmer" component.
Here is the same model about the Black sea coast but without the "Central farmer" component.
Monday, November 20, 2023
Mycenaean Greek Y DNA from continental part of Greece and a Minoan Y DNA from Crete
Mycenaean Greek Y DNA from continental part of Greece and a Minoan Y DNA from Crete. Sources are Lazaridis 2022 and Skourtanioti 2023.
Saturday, November 18, 2023
Ethnicity and Y DNA.
Ethnicity and Y DNA. The Hamshen (Hemshin) Armenians as a case example
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Kur-Araxian samples from modern Armenia
Kur-Araxian samples from modern Armenia modeled by Nareg Asatrian with qpadm. All models have p value higher than 0.05. It's evident that there was a substructure in the autosomes which could indicate different languages. One interesting subject for the future would be to try to find a correlation between burial rites and genes.
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Urartu and the Armenian nation
Urartu and the Armenian nation
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Tarim basin mummies represents a group of ancient mysterious populations that lived in north west of China
Tarim basin mummies represents a group of ancient mysterious populations that lived in north west of China. They were pastoralists ( ~2000-100BC), and had a peculiar culture. Mummification was natural rather than hand made. The most surprising are their phenotypes, which was predominantly Caucasoid ( or Europoid ). Some mummies from later periods had Mongoloid admixture but they were found from more eastern regions. See the map for the location.
Monday, November 6, 2023
A Chinese study on bread wheat DNA shows that the initial homeland of domesticated wheat was in South West of Caspian.
A Chinese study on bread wheat DNA shows that the initial homeland of domesticated wheat was in South West of Caspian. This is the Chinese way to pinpoint the region of historic Armenia. Large number of wheat specimens were taken from Turkey also from South Caucasus, Iran and Iraq.
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Frequently users ask the same question.
Frequently users ask the same question. Why samples from Levant, Iran, Anatolia and Caucasus are used to model ancient and modern samples from Armenia, if ancient samples from Armenia are alrwady available.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
There is some big data that is accumulating about the Upper Paleolithic period in Caucasus and Europe
There is some big data that is accumulating about the Upper Paleolithic period in Caucasus and Europe. We have 26000 year old samples from West Georgia and now very important samples from Crimea. (~36000 year old).