No one claims anymore Ainu are Caucasoid, but East Asian people genetically and otherwise and to me they don't look too Caucasoid or so ''un-Asian''.
No one claims anymore Ainu are Caucasoid, but East Asian people genetically and otherwise and to me they don't look too Caucasoid or so ''un-Asian''.
Veddas have 0% Caucasian / European DNA.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lily
They are isolated group of people. Their most closely related with people from South Indian aborigines.
http://www.humanbiologicaldiversity....s/tamilman.jpg
Ainu were paleomongoloid
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There is a connection between so many different groups of people in North Eastern Asia. The European, American Indians and Asians all have common heritage in the Siberian/Mongol area. If anyone has put their dna through Gedmatch you would know this.
Ainu are a Paleosiberian ethnic group, originate from the Amur Valley and the Kamchatka peninsula.
Haplogroup D is not confined to an ethnic group, it's common :
- in Southwestern China (among Tibetans and southwestern Sinitic tribes)
- in Japan (especially among Ainu and the ancient Jomon people)
- in the Andaman Islands.
This haplogroup is probably related to the Paleolithic populations of Asia and the Pacific Islands, which was progressively replaced by haplogroup O carriers.
So, the subclade of haplogroup D common among Japanese and Ainu can be considerated as a Siberian subclade.
According to Wikipedia, Jomon people (and Ainu) are also distant cousins of Australian Aborigines and Melanesians, they have Denisovan admixture (it's not without reason, since Denisovans lived for a long time in Siberia).
Proto-mongoloidQuote:
Originally Posted by Ianus
(paleomongoloid are more like austrolasian)
I think you are right for the Ainu but Jomon have probably a southern origine closer to austrolasian.
mongoloids are cool, i like this thread.