Posted: Jul 31, 2019 12:02 am
Alan C wrote:
I also now recalled a comment years ago about Indians having had some genetic influences or similarities with white Europeans so I'm now partway through an article on this topic, following this I'll then check for other articles on this [hunting for the most apparently reputable sources I can]. It's interesting.
This is due to Proto-Indo-European populations spreading from the Pontic Caspian Steppe Region sometime in the Late Neolithic. Basically, it was the Mongols millennia before with horse riding pastoralists conquering and interbreeding with local populations of agriculturalists from Europe, through Persia, into India taking language, tools, material culture, animals, and genes with them.
Speaking PIE is my nerdy party trick where I pretend I know words in every language because many agricultural words share an ancient PIE root. In English, 'ewe' is one such word, as is 'fart'.