Iranian GEDmatch kits

[SharpFork]

Another thing what interests me. Werent the Aryans/Iranics nomadic/pastoralist people similar in culture to the Gutians who were descibed quite barbaric by Mesopotamian sources? So they basically leeched off the Sumer-Elamite suffistication in forming their empires?

Virtually everyone does that, no human pre-urban and pre-state society wakes up one day even having the concept of creating large impersonal institutions, writing, cities etc.
Civilization in the West(from Iceland to Afghanistan, maybe even India) was in a way or another connected to either Egypt or Mesopotamia and for early Egypt there is even indication of presence of Mesopotamian migrants in the early period, so maybe all traces back to just 5th and 4th millenium BCE Mesopotamia.

Some people remained Nomadic in Persian times and frequently attacked Persian and Median cities. Who were they?

Scythians/Sakas?

[Demhat]

Do you know anything about these times? Unfortunately there is very little known about the times of the arrival of Iranic tribes into Iran. What happened to all the people like Kassites, Gutians, Elamites etc.. Any indication that they were largely assimilated?. I think the only thing that is known is that the Persians (who derived from the Median tribes) went south and sacked Elam. And Elam language remained important under the Persian rulers, so we can assume that most of them were assimilated. Gutians probably got assimilated by the Medes? Or were they early IAryan off-branches like the Mitanni?

Another thing what interests me. Werent the Aryans/Iranics nomadic/pastoralist people similar in culture to the Gutians who were descibed quite barbaric by Mesopotamian sources? So they basically leeched off the Sumer-Elamite suffistication in forming their empires?
So the Parthians remained the culture while Persians and Medes took over Mesopotamian influenced culture.
Some people remained Nomadic in Persian times and frequently attacked Persian and Median cities. Who were they?
There is way too much unknown about Iranian history unfortunately.

The Iranian history is quite similar to those of Anatolia actually. Just thousands of years earlier.

Yes the Gutians/Mitanni/Kassites, Mannaeans were absorbed by Medes. Cyrus literally equates Western Media with Gutium and Heredotus doesn't even make a differentiation between the Mitanni and Medes.

Yes the Persians absorbed the Elamites and even went as far as taking Elamites costumes and absorbed Elamite elements into their language too.

The South Indian in South Iraq having Elamite origin is absolute bollocks and the believe that they came from South Asia is also very outdated. If that was the case you would find even higher levels of South Indian in Persians of Fars. but they don't have higher levels to other Persians or these Iraqi samples.

If anything the proto Elamites must had been very Iranian Neolithic.

South Iraq has been known as a hotspot for exotic ancestry in modern times. They did have some people from Africa and India settle there as Sailors due to trade. Also there are quite a number of Iraqis and Kuwaitis with Baluchi origin settled in Central and South Iraq due to religious reasons. So it is no suprise to find Iraqis with higher Indian DNA. They are not necessary Gypsies either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Iraqis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzaffar_Al-Nawab

Mais Gomar for example has partially South Asian origin.

[Demhat]

Kermanshah (pedaram) + Borazjan (madaram)

Are you half Kurd half Persian or is your father one of the rarer cases of Persians in Kermanshah.

[Leto]

@Demhat, hey. Do you have your Dodecad K12b and HarappaWorld components?

[Babak]

Yes the Gutians/Mitanni/Kassites, Mannaeans were absorbed by Medes. Cyrus literally equates Western Media with Gutium and Heredotus doesn't even make a differentiation between the Mitanni and Medes.

Yes the Persians absorbed the Elamites and even went as far as taking Elamites costumes and absorbed Elamite elements into their language too.

The South Indian in South Iraq having Elamite origin is absolute bollocks and the believe that they came from South Asia is also very outdated. If that was the case you would find even higher levels of South Indian in Persians of Fars. but they don't have higher levels to other Persians or these Iraqi samples.

If anything the proto Elamites must had been very Iranian Neolithic.

South Iraq has been known as a hotspot for exotic ancestry in modern times. They did have some people from Africa and India settle there as Sailors due to trade. Also there are quite a number of Iraqis and Kuwaitis with Baluchi origin settled in Central and South Iraq due to religious reasons. So it is no suprise to find Iraqis with higher Indian DNA. They are not necessary Gypsies either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Iraqis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzaffar_Al-Nawab

Mais Gomar for example has partially South Asian origin.

Welcome back bro

[Dr_Maul]

Are you half Kurd half Persian or is your father one of the rarer cases of Persians in Kermanshah.

No my Dad is an ethnic Persian but I assume his roots are from Isfahan because that is where I get a really strong match on 23andMe

[Demhat]

Welcome back bro

Thanks I am not going to stay for long though. Just had some questions in my head and was bordered. I am not interested in taxonomy that much anymore. History, Culture and Genetics are more interesting.

[Demhat]

@Demhat, hey. Do you have your Dodecad K12b and HarappaWorld components?

I did but I haven't checked them long time ago. And don't actually know how they look anymore. But they were very similar to other Kurds.

[Demhat]

Guys please check my recent thread.
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...o-the-Iranians

[Zoro]

South Iraq has been known as a hotspot for exotic ancestry in modern times. They did have some people from Africa and India settle there as Sailors due to trade. Also there are quite a number of Iraqis and Kuwaitis with Baluchi origin settled in Central and South Iraq due to religious reasons. So it is no suprise to find Iraqis with higher Indian DNA. They are not necessary Gypsies either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Iraqis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzaffar_Al-Nawab

Mais Gomar for example has partially South Asian origin.

Plausible explanation for widespread S. Indian ancestry in S. Iraq if it's older. Port cities such as Basra have traded with India since Sindbad's time. We also have the very extensive trading between IVC and Iraq.

Afro-Iraqis have integrated very extensively in some areas. I remember when I was a kid one of my cousins who we used to visit in Baghdad had an Afro-Iraqi landscaper.

I noticed you indicate Upper Mesopotamian in your profile. What city in Kurdistan are you from?