The Bronze Age in Caucasus
Uruk migrants in the Caucasus According to the text Uruk Migrants in the Caucasus by Konstantine Pitskhelauri the period between the 4th and 3rd millennia B.C. was the time of great cataclysmic events...
View ArticleStanislav Grigoriev’s “Ancient Indo-Europeans”
I had seen bits and pieces of SA Grigoriev’s ideas in various publications, but it’s nice to see this work in its entirety (although the reproduction of the maps doesn’t seem to be very good). From...
View ArticleThe story of R1b: it’s complicated
Ancient DNA is painting a remarkable picture of the period of European prehistory known as the late Neolithic/early Bronze Age. It’s showing that after the collapse of genetically Near Eastern-like...
View ArticleWorld map of Y-chromosome haplogroups
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View ArticleThe Nordic mix
Distribution of hair color, Beals & Hoijer (1965) – An Introduction to Anthropology Map of the distribution of the light eyes (blue, green and gray) in Europe at the middle of the 20th century by...
View ArticleHaplogroup I
Haplogroup I1 (Y-DNA) is the original paternal lineage of Nordic Europe. In human genetics, Haplogroup I-M253 is a Y chromosome haplogroup which occurs at greatest frequency in Fenno-Scandia. The...
View ArticleThe colonization of Europe
The colonization of Europe The Gravettian toolmaking culture was a specific archaeological industry of the European Upper Palaeolithic era prevalent before the last glacial epoch. It is named after the...
View ArticleQuestions about haplogroup R1b – Check this out:
Haplogroup R1b Haplogroup R1a Family Tree DNA – R1b and Subclades Gateway Project for R1b Migration Routesof a member of haplogroup R1b The Genetic History: Your Y-chromosome results identify you as a...
View ArticleHavyaka Brahmins
Analysis of modern Siberian populations revealed a 1.2% prevalence in Altaians, 0.2% in the Buryats, and 0.9% in the Khanty people. In India, N1a was only identified in Indo-Aryan speakers at a...
View ArticleThe Rendille of Kenya
It is generally believed that black people do not possess blue eyes. The blue eyes has always been associated with the Caucasians (whites). In many scientific studies and a more recent one conducted...
View ArticleHyrcania and the Northern Iran
Caspians is the English version of a Greek ethnonym mentioned twice by Herodotus among the satrapies of Darius and applied by Strabo to the ancient people dwelling along the southern and southwestern...
View ArticleNergal – the sun of noontime and of the summer solstice that brings...
Apollo Aplu was a Hurrian deity of the plague — bringing it, or, if propitiated, protecting from it — and resembles Apollo Smintheus, “mouse-Apollo” Aplu, it is suggested, comes from the Akkadian Aplu...
View ArticleHeavy Neolithic and Shepherd Neolithic in Lebanon
Heavy Neolithic (alternatively, Gigantolithic) is a style of large stone and flint tools (or industry) associated primarily with the Qaraoun culture in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, dating to the...
View ArticleHurrians – Horites or Hivites, and their realtion to Israel
Horites or Horim were a people mentioned in the Torah (Genesis 14:6, 36:20, Deuteronomy 2:12) inhabiting areas around Mount Seir which was in Canaan (Gen. 36:2,5). Mt. Seir seems to have been named...
View ArticleThe Hurrians and Adana
The Hurrians The Hurrians, probably originators of the various storm-gods of the ancient Near East, were a people of the Bronze Age Near East. Modern scholars place them in Anatolia and Northern...
View ArticleThe Taurus Mountains – The place of the thunder gods
The Taurus Mountains The Taurus Mountains are a mountain complex in southern Turkey, dividing the Mediterranean coastal region of southern Turkey from the central Anatolian Plateau. The system extends...
View ArticleUgaritic Baal and Anat Cycle
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View ArticleArima, Couch of Typhoeus
Arima, couch of Typhoeus, the most deadly monster of Greek mythology, as Homer expresses it, is a hard-to-place site in Greek mythology, said to be where Zeus defeated Typhon and where Echidna dwells....
View ArticleThe Budini with their deep blue eyes and bright red hair
The Budini (Greek: Boudinoi) were an ancient people who lived in Scythia, in what is today Ukraine. In his account of Scythia (Inquiries book 4), Herodotus writes that the Geloni were formerly Greeks,...
View ArticleThe Waugh Family An historical and photographic perspective
The Waugh Family An historical and photographic perspective “Waugh was the name given to our people (the Britons) by the Anglo-Saxons” The Waugh Family An historical and photographic perspective...
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