South Caucasians: Genetically closer to North Caucasians or to other Southwest Asians?

[Alhx'o Khasanov]

South Caucasus is Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. North Caucasus is Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai, and the constituent republics, approximately from west to east: the Republic of Adygea, Karachay–Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia–Alania, Ingushetia, Chechnya, and the Republic of Dagestan(from Wikpedia.org). Southwest Asia is basically this:

[Полковник 95]

SW Asians (Iranians, Kurds).

[Hadouken]

we are not sw asian . sw asia = gulf etc

[TenaciousTopologist]

hmm mountains can definitely be a genetic barrier. I would wager they are closer to ethnicities to the south and west (kurds, anatolians).

[Vyasa]

hmm mountains can definitely be a genetic barrier. I would wager they are closer to ethnicities to the south and west (kurds, anatolians).

True. Because of mountainous barrier, nepal today is western aryan nation while its neighbours india and china are non-aryan

[interes]

SW Asians (Iranians, Kurds).

w. georgian have same genetic of circassians, but circassians have moch more mongoloid and asian face , abkhazian look like w. georgians but are bit darker and have bit more mogoloid face than w. georgians . east georgians look like aremenians ( only kakhetians) but not azeris. armenian DNA( R1b) chose west europe much than circassians and N caucasians , so S caucasians have more EURO dna than N caucasians

[cmt160]

Halfway inbetween. What's so hard to understand. And maybe it could depend on the region or EVEN on the individual.

[Scarface F]

Not close at all to SW Asians. SW Asia is Arabian Peninsula. Iraq, Syria, Iran etc are NW Asia.

[interes]

Not close at all to SW Asians. SW Asia is Arabian Peninsula. Iraq, Syria, Iran etc are NW Asia.

most georgians and circassians have G2 DNA but some circassians are mongoloid and look like more Central asians ( kyrgiz or tadjik ) than georgians

[Leto]

w. georgian have same genetic of circassians, but circassians have moch more mongoloid and asian face , abkhazian look like w. georgians but are bit darker and have bit more mogoloid face than w. georgians . east georgians look like aremenians ( only kakhetians) but not azeris. armenian DNA( R1b) chose west europe much than circassians and N caucasians , so S caucasians have more EURO dna than N caucasians

I don't think Abkhazians are darker than West Georgians, they're nearly identical. Also, you're totally wrong about the North Caucasus because it is in fact much more Northern than any part of Georgia. Yes, the Mongoloid influence is quite significant in the Northwestern Caucasus but overall, North Caucasians have much more Steppe/Yamnaya-related ancestry than Georgians which seem to have little to none. In particular Dagestan (except for the Kumyks) is like 30-40% Steppe. Chechens are about 25-30%. Swarthyness does not necessarily correlate with the level of Steppe admixture.