Owen McCormick (@owen_mccor)
An average of several early Bronze Age Beaker Folk found in Northern Italy. Undoubtedly the elite genetic profile of the old Roman Kingdom - the Patricians - preserved for centuries by a rigid caste system and undone by the racial catastrophe of the Republic ...
“Ancient Greeks were brown” - please consult the data ...
There are 11 references to hair colour in the Rig Veda, some less clear (Agni) than others. Dark hair’s never mentioned. Indra, yellow-haired 10.96 Savitar, yellow-haired 10.139 Surya, yellow-haired 10.37 Agni, fire-haired 1.45/127, 3.14/17/27, 5.8/41 Agni, yellow-haired 3.2 ...
Posth (2021) examines upheavals in Italy’s genome, finding a 50% replacement in some regions by Near Eastern slaves/migrants in the Roman era - he rightly calls out Emperor Caracalla for his crimes against European blood. The kind of scholarship I can stand behind. ...
Classical Macedonian Royal = paternally and maternally Indo-European. His R1b clade is downstream of M269 and barely exists in modern Greeks. <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/nrken19/status/1918008169265049761" color="blue">x.com/nrken19/status…</a>...
Ancestry of Macedonian King Alexander II, uncle of the Great, and genetically closest modern populations. The allegedly contaminated sample. Pure Dorian (Northwestern European) stock. <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/AverageReward/status/1918182443783471614" color="blue">x.com/AverageRe...
Writing 100 years ago, Gunther claimed that Macedonia’s great strength was its Nordic upper class. Given revelations re: the ancestral origins of the Argead Dynasty, an Urnfield-derived “Dorian invasion” of Greece by ethnically distinct Indo-Europeans seems more than likely. ...
Interesting paper. Population changes in Europe as told by the Skull. An Eastern Hunter-Gatherer ancestral to Sredny Stog is shown on the right - the Aryan Gods are all of this type. <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/nrken19/status/1914745285663740054" color="blue">x.com/nrken19/status…<...
Bruce Lincoln on death in the Indo-European religion. The world was created through a primordial sacrifice. At death, a person’s body rejoins the cosmos, supporting the world’s continued existence. Cyclical creation and destruction. Every death is a sacrifice. ...