"We are all connected...to each other, biologically; to the earth, chemically; to the universe, atomically...and that makes me smile." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
The actual scientific papers on these archaeological finds was posted to the forum a few years ago.
It's interesting that the Scientists doing the research do not always make the same claims or reach the same conclusions as some others who read about their finds on the web.
The actual scientific papers on these finds have been published and it is very interesting to read them. If you think about it that is how we know about the finds. Scientist publish their findings. That is how they inform the world of what they are doing. I suggest that going to the source and then reaching your own conclusions would be a prudent thing.
Just one of the published papers - This by Dr. Mair who is one of the Scientists doing this research.
This was mentioned in a thread a couple (?) of years ago. In doing related reading triggered by that thread, I later ran across a DNA analysis related to the distribution of red hair globally. The researchers stated that the closest kin to these mummies are the Sami folk. Their next closest kin listed, IIRC, are located in the northern British Isles. Not my conclusion, their analysis. And, no, I don't believe I still have a link to that article, and yes, my recall could be faulty. Rare, but not w/o precedent.
I mentioned then having personally seen mummies that had been removed from permafrost about 800 miles north of the cemeteries mentioned here. At the time I saw them, they were in a museum in Novosibirsk, but since have been returned to the Altai from whence they were recovered. We were told the contribution our group made to the relocation project was the largest they had received to that date (1999). You may have seen them in the National Geographic special. Blonde hair, blue eyes, horse culture. 6000 years in the ground, according to the Russian team. Virtually anyone seeing them would think of Celts. They would probably also think there is a fairly direct connection to the Takla Makan mummies. I have seen no direct proof either way. Certainly closer cousins to each other than to the Han that are being moved into the area currently. A possible indication that these peoples were around in these regions for quite a while.
The clan Rollo page is apparently due to the tartan textiles found, but the red hair distribution connection might indicate a Norse/Celt/
Sino/Siberian DNA link.
Might.
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I could be foggy on this, but I seem to recall that ancient hunters travelled from east to west just below the ice sheet, bringing central Asian DNA to northern Europe.
From a purely visual and non-scientific viewpoint I do notice many northern Europeans having the epicanthic fold to a greater or lesser degree.
Actress Anna Torv, born in Scotland but of Estonian ethnicity
Actor Barry Keoghan, Irish
Actress Jennifer Lawrence. I don't know her ethnicity but she has the epicanthic fold (which the makeup artists usually try to obscure for some reason)
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