Eurogenes Blog: The Caucasus is a semipermeable barrier to gene flow
The scientists at the David Reich Lab are a clever bunch. But they're not always on top of things. And this can be a problem. For instanc...| eurogenes.blogspot.com
815 – 669 BCE The association of particular plaid patterns (tartans) with particular Scottish highland clans is a phenomenon of the last several centuries. But the Celt-plaid connection goes back a lot farther than that. This picture shows a scrap of fabric associated with the Iron Age Hallstatt culture of central Europe. The culture lasted […]| Logarithmic History
1351 – 1165 BCE Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, by Laura Spinney, is a well-written popular account of the origin and spread of Indo-European and its branches, synthesizing historical linguistics and recent findings in genetics. I learned a lot from it. But inevitably, given the range of topics and disciplines covered, it makes […]| Logarithmic History
It's always amusing to see some random Jovan or Dimitar arguing online that Slavic speakers have been in the Balkans since at least the Neolithic. Obviously, Slavic peoples only turned up in the Balkans during the early Middle Ages. It's just that their linguistic and genetic impact on the region was so profound that it may seem like they've been there forever. A new paper at Cell by Olalde et| Eurogenes Blog
The scientists at the David Reich Lab are a clever bunch. But they're not always on top of things. And this can be a problem. For instanc...| eurogenes.blogspot.com
