An interesting reenactment of Varangian warriors. Note their full-body mail cuirass. Creator and reenactment group unknown – felicitations on their work.
The term ‘Varangians’ was actually a generic term for the Byzantines, describing
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15/06/2020
Uncategorized Medieval, medieval warfare, Rus, Russia, Scandinavia, Scandinavian, Varangians, Viking, Viking Age, Viking history, Vikings Leave a comment
An interesting reenactment of Varangian warriors. Note their full-body mail cuirass. Creator and reenactment group unknown – felicitations on their work.
The term ‘Varangians’ was actually a generic term for the Byzantines, describing
18/05/2020
Uncategorized Golden Horde, Kazakhstan, Kipchak, medieval warfare, Military, Military history, Military topics, Mongol, Mongol Empire, reenactment, Reenactor, Russia, sabre, Turco-Mongol Leave a comment
An excellent reenactment of a warrior of the Golden Horde. Reenactor uknown, possibly from a Russian or a Kazakh reenactment group. Kudos to them.
The Golden Horde was one of the most important successor states of the Mongol Empire after its dissolution. The core area population was mostly of Turco-Mongol stock desceded mainly from the earlier Kipchak/ Cuman/Polovtsy tribal federation.
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12/06/2016
Uncategorized Afanasievo culture, Andronovo culture, Anthropology, Biology, China, DNA, Genetics, Indo-European, Indo-Europeans, mitochondrial DNA, Mongoloids, Russia, Russian, Tarim Basin Leave a comment
Republication from Biomed central
Fig. 1
Map of Eurasia showing the location of the Xiaohe cemetery, the Tarim Basin, the ancient Silk Road routes and the areas occupied by cultures associated with the settlement of the Tarim Basin. This figure is drawn according to literatures
Fig. 2
a Fourth layer of the Xiaohe cemetery showing a large number of large phallus and vulva posts; b A well-preserved boat coffin; c Female mummy with European features; d Double-layered coffin excavated from the Xiaohe cemetery
Chunxiang Li, Chao Ning, Erika Hagelberg, Hongjie Li, Yongbin Zhao, Wenying Li, Idelisi Abuduresule, Hong Zhu and Hui Zhou
DOI: 10.1186/s12863-015-0237-5
© Li et al. 2015
The Tarim Basin in western China, known for its amazingly well-preserved mummies, has been for thousands of years an important crossroad between the eastern and western parts of Eurasia. Despite its key position in communications and migration, and highly diverse peoples, languages and cultures, its prehistory is poorly understood. To shed light on the origin of the populations of the Tarim Basin, we analysed mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms in human skeletal remains excavated from the Xiaohe cemetery, used by the local community between 4000 and 3500 years before present, and possibly representing some of the earliest settlers.
23/05/2016
Uncategorized Asia, China, Finns, Mongolia, Mongols, Russia, Siberia, Tungus, Turks Leave a comment
Republication from BioRxiv
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Fig.1. Admixture results for K=6 showing the approximate location of the populations included in this study. The names of the populations are coloured according to their
linguistic affiliation as follows: red = Mongolic, blue = Turkic, dark green = North
Tungusic, light green = South Tungusic (Hezhen) and Manchu (Xibo), brown = Ugric,
orange = Samoyedic, black = Yenisseic, azure = Yukaghirs, maroon = Chukotko-
Kamchatkan, pink = Eskimo-Aleut, purple = Indo-European, teal = Sino-Tibetan and
Japonic. Where two subgroups are from the same geographic location, only one of the subgroups is shown (full results are presented in Fig.S1). Note that for reasons of space the location of the two distinct Yakut subgroups does not correspond to their true location. Each color indicates a different ancestry component referred to in the text as “(light) green” or European, “yellow” or Western Siberian, “blue” or Central Siberian, “pink” or Asian, “red” or Far Eastern, “dark green” or Eskimo.
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04/01/2016
Uncategorized America, Anthropology, Canada, Caucasoids, Chukchi, DNA, Eskimos, Genetics, Indians, Mongoloids, native Americans, Russia, Siberia, USA Leave a comment
Republication from Pub Med
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Am J Phys Anthropol. 1999 Feb;108(2):193-204.
Nonmetric and metric traits were studied in cranial series representing prehistoric and modern populations of America and Siberia. Frequencies of the infraorbital pattern type II (longitudinal infraorbital suture overlaid by the zygomatic bone) are universally lower in Amerindians than in Siberians. The os japonicum posterior trace, too, is much less frequent in America than in Siberia. The only two Siberian groups with an almost Amerindian combination are late third to early second millennium BC populations from Okunev and Sopka, southern Siberia. The multivariate analysis of five nonmetric facial traits and ten facial measurements in 15 cranial series reveals two independent tendencies.