R1b - L584 in distant lands
L584 is associated with Trialeti-Vanadzor and Van-Urmia cultures. However we have some cases in distant lands. The most remarkable is the L584 in Moldova Late Scythian period and in Mongolia during the Uighur khaganate period. Those cases can't have local steppe origin, they are almost certainly a result of migration from Armenia-Iran-Caucasus given that older samples from Hasanlu and Armenia have common ancestors with those steppic L584. So what historic event could be the cause of this migration.
In my opinion it is the back migration of Scythians from West Asia to north. While two cases in Mongolia could be either from Scythians either the result of Manichean proselytism. Uighur Khaganate was a short lived polity that adopted Manichaeism as a state religion.
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