Mediterranean Descent Folk in N. India
21 Aug '19 00:22E. Mediterranean DNA is from the earlier skeletons 1800 BC:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11357-9
This could Shore up some of the ideas that the Aryans went into India, and that the Aryans did not leave India in migrate to Europe in other places. Not that the latter theory was ever particularly strong.
It's amazing what science can do. But it's also pretty obvious.
It's also fun because the sort of thing shows that science can identify easily people of different descent groups, even when those descent groups go back very far, because modern genetics tends to correlate with the people who are around and living today in those places. It's almost like these groups are very natural features of our existence.
Situated at over 5,000 meters above sea level in the Himalayan Mountains, Roopkund Lake is home to the scattered skeletal remains of several hundred individuals of unknown origin. We report genome-wide ancient DNA for 38 skeletons from Roopkund Lake, and find that they cluster into three distinct groups. A group of 23 individuals have ancestry that falls within the range of variation of present-day South Asians. A further 14 have ancestry typical of the eastern Mediterranean. We also identify one individual with Southeast Asian-related ancestry. Radiocarbon dating indicates that these remains were not deposited simultaneously. Instead, all of the individuals with South Asian-related ancestry date to ~800 CE (but with evidence of being deposited in more than one event), while all other individuals date to ~1800 CE. These differences are also reflected in stable isotope measurements, which reveal a distinct dietary profile for the two main groups.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11357-9
This could Shore up some of the ideas that the Aryans went into India, and that the Aryans did not leave India in migrate to Europe in other places. Not that the latter theory was ever particularly strong.
It's amazing what science can do. But it's also pretty obvious.
It's also fun because the sort of thing shows that science can identify easily people of different descent groups, even when those descent groups go back very far, because modern genetics tends to correlate with the people who are around and living today in those places. It's almost like these groups are very natural features of our existence.
