The original steppe horse people, also known as the Proto-Indo Europeans. You're probably between 40 and 50% steppe by ancestry, with most of the rest early neolithic farmer and some assorted hunter-gatherer.
Early pastoralists, the first to bootstrap up from agriculture and abandon planted crops. They exported their culture east (the anc…
The original steppe horse people, also known as the Proto-Indo Europeans. You're probably between 40 and 50% steppe by ancestry, with most of the rest early neolithic farmer and some assorted hunter-gatherer.
Early pastoralists, the first to bootstrap up from agriculture and abandon planted crops. They exported their culture east (the ancestors of the mongols acquired it by being btfo by them), west, and south (shortest summary of the Rig Veda would be 'prayers about cattle'). Their diet was dairy and the flesh of ruminants, and mead from presumably wild-gathered honey (if there were beehives on their wagons no trace of this remains in the archaeological record). Some recently try to claim that cattail pollen in their sites show they were eating cattail tubers but I don't believe the potsherd residue supports this directly.
Ha funny that you mention it, I just listened to Harry Serpanos (did we just talk about him?) mention that. He says about 1/4 of the population have these pastoral genes, and that they can't extract sufficient calcium from pretty much anything but dairy, because they overadapted to the abundance of calcium in it.
The original steppe horse people, also known as the Proto-Indo Europeans. You're probably between 40 and 50% steppe by ancestry, with most of the rest early neolithic farmer and some assorted hunter-gatherer.
Early pastoralists, the first to bootstrap up from agriculture and abandon planted crops. They exported their culture east (the ancestors of the mongols acquired it by being btfo by them), west, and south (shortest summary of the Rig Veda would be 'prayers about cattle'). Their diet was dairy and the flesh of ruminants, and mead from presumably wild-gathered honey (if there were beehives on their wagons no trace of this remains in the archaeological record). Some recently try to claim that cattail pollen in their sites show they were eating cattail tubers but I don't believe the potsherd residue supports this directly.
Ha funny that you mention it, I just listened to Harry Serpanos (did we just talk about him?) mention that. He says about 1/4 of the population have these pastoral genes, and that they can't extract sufficient calcium from pretty much anything but dairy, because they overadapted to the abundance of calcium in it.
Highly likely I have those genetics, yea.