Ancient Yamnaya Indo-European People

[Mortimer]

How did they looked like? http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...-from-the-East

[zarzian]

Pred. Wog

[StonyArabia]

Similar to Iranians I reckon.

[Smeagol]

Similar to Iranians I reckon.

That doesn't make any sense.. Yamnaya culture was in southern Russia. I believe that they were described as ''Cromagnoid'' anthropologically.

[StonyArabia]

That doesn't make any sense.. Yamnaya culture was in southern Russia. I believe that they were described as ''Cromagnoid'' anthropologically.

From what I read about them they seemed to have been like half Russian half Iranians in modern terms unless I misunderstood it.

[zarzian]

I wouldn't say they looked Iranian but their pigmentation alleles showed they were darker with also majority darker eyes.

[Mortimer]

so aryans were not "aryan"(blonde blue eyed nordid) they were dark, cool

[Smeagol]

I wouldn't say they looked Iranian but their pigmentation alleles showed they were darker with also majority darker eyes.

That is true.

[Smeagol]

so aryans were not "aryan"(blonde blue eyed nordid) they were dark, cool

Original Indo-Iranians were mainly light though.
http://link.springer.com/article/10....439-009-0683-0

Ancient DNA provides new insights into the history of south Siberian Kurgan people
Christine Keyser, Caroline Bouakaze, Eric Crubézy, Valery G. Nikolaev, Daniel Montagnon, Tatiana Reis, Bertrand Ludes
Abstract
To help unravel some of the early Eurasian steppe migration movements, we determined the Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial haplotypes and haplogroups of 26 ancient human specimens from the Krasnoyarsk area dated from between the middle of the second millennium BC. to the fourth century AD. In order to go further in the search of the geographic origin and physical traits of these south Siberian specimens, we also typed phenotype-informative single nucleotide polymorphisms. Our autosomal, Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA analyses reveal that whereas few specimens seem to be related matrilineally or patrilineally, nearly all subjects belong to haplogroup R1a1-M17 which is thought to mark the eastward migration of the early Indo-Europeans. Our results also confirm that at the Bronze and Iron Ages, south Siberia was a region of overwhelmingly predominant European settlement, suggesting an eastward migration of Kurgan people across the Russo-Kazakh steppe. Finally, our data indicate that at the Bronze and Iron Age timeframe, south Siberians were blue (or green)-eyed, fair-skinned and light-haired people and that they might have played a role in the early development of the Tarim Basin civilization. To the best of our knowledge, no equivalent molecular analysis has been undertaken so far.

[Mortimer]

Original Indo-Iranians were mainly light though.
http://link.springer.com/article/10....439-009-0683-0

all people were african once, when they became aryans they were not light