What could the first R1b steppe peoples have looked like?

[Illyrius]

This is something I always questioned and wondered.
Now I know it's almost impossible to give a valid answer for this one and please excuse if this subject sounds kind of dumb.
Could the first R1b peoples have had asian looks?
Were they white or Caucasoid?
Does anyone have data on this?

[Dna8]

I would suggest that you read Harutyunyan's, What the First R1b Steppe Peoples Looked Like.

[Yamnaya]

This is something I always questioned and wondered.
Now I know it's almost impossible to give a valid answer for this one and please excuse if this subject sounds kind of dumb.
Could the first R1b peoples have had asian looks?
Were they white or Caucasoid?
Does anyone have data on this?

If you google yamnaya reconstruction you can find multiple pics

[Zroota]

They don't look Asian to me:



But I would think that they would have had smaller or narrower eyes, unlike those reconstructions which make them seem more 'progressive' looking akin to Greeks or Romans (with those larger or rounder eyes). I mean, I really doubt that your eyes would be round-shaped if you're from the Eurasian steppes in the northeast.

I'd say they looked similar to this (though perhaps more 'tanned'):

Spoiler!

[L3mon J3lly]

^ Idiot, there is nothing about "the Eurasian steppe" that would make your eyes narrow and the earliest R1b western steppe specimen (Samara) carried the KITLG gene for blond hair. Yamnaya weren't the earliest proto indo Europeans and they were heavily mixed.