New Scythian and Sarmatian genomes from Eurasian steppe

[Kazbolat]

http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14615#f7

"Genomic inference reveals that Scythians in the east and the west of the steppe zone can best be described as a mixture of Yamnaya-related ancestry and an East Asian component. "

"The origin of the widespread Scythian culture has long been debated in Eurasian archaeology. The northern Black Sea steppe was originally considered the homeland and centre of the Scythians3 until Terenozhkin formulated the hypothesis of a Central Asian origin4. On the other hand, evidence supporting an east Eurasian origin includes the kurgan Arzhan 1 in Tuva5, which is considered the earliest Scythian kurgan5."

" From the western part of the Eurasian Steppe, samples discovered in the North Caucasus dating to the initial Scythian period (eighth to sixth century BCE), classical Scythians from the Don-Volga region (third century BCE), and Early Sarmatians from Pokrovka, southwest of the Ural (fifth to second century BCE), were included. "

" In our ADMIXTURE analyses we find an East Asian ancestry component at K=15 in all Iron Age samples that has not been detected in preceding Bronze Age populations in either western or eastern parts of the Eurasian Steppe."

"Theese findings are consistent with the appearance of east Eurasian mitochondrial lineages in the western Scythians during the Iron Age, and imply gene-flow or migration over the Eurasian Steppe belt carrying East Asian/North Siberian ancestry from the East to the West as far as the Don-Volga region in southern Russia."

"Contemporary descendants of western Scythian groups are found among various groups in the Caucasus and Central Asia, while similarities to eastern Scythian are found to be more widespread, but almost exclusively among Turkic language speaking (formerly) nomadic groups, particularly from the Kipchak branch of Turkic languages"



HAHAHAHA very Slavic-like indeed. I really want to see Polako's face. For years he portrayed Scythians as some kind of Slavic-like East Euro population, turned out even western Scythians did not resemble Slavs

They are basically a mix of EHG, CHG and East Eurasian.

Scythian_Pazyryk 1: 65% East Eurasian
Scythian_Pazyryk 2: 55% East Eurasian
Scythian_AldyBel 1: 30% East Eurasian
Scythian_AldyBel 2: 50% East Eurasian
Scythian_ZevakinoChilikta 1: 25% East Eurasian
Scythian_ZevakinoChilikta 2: 50% East Eurasian
Scythian_Samara: 12% East Eurasian
Sarmatian: 10% East Eurasian

[Kazbolat]

[Kazbolat]

Comparison of Scythian and modern Iranian DNAs, they look like twins don't they

[Kazbolat]

Bump

Scythians according to Eurocentric wannabe-scythians:



Scythian according to modern genetic data:

[Pahli]

Do you have their gedmatch kit numbers?

Also not surprised about the East Eurasian admixture, Altai was the melting pot for Caucasoid and Mongoloid populations.

[Pennywise]

R1tards never learn.

[Ülev]

why do you even wonder, it's called Stockholm Syndrome (of R1 ruled by Scythians)

[johen]

http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14615#f7

"Genomic inference reveals that Scythians in the east and the west of the steppe zone can best be described as a mixture of Yamnaya-related ancestry and an East Asian component. "

I would like to challenge this opinion. I think they should have revealed Malta admixture.
We can see the gene flow from Malta thru Okunevo/karashuk to Iron age Altai(scythian). East scythian gene did not come from yamna.
Their cranial series also have ties with okunevo (purebred of malta) and karasuk series.

[NSXD60]

Nuff said.

[RN97]

They varied a laaawt, but who's to say that they didn't look like some fairer uralics?