Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Six Skeletal Remains from 500 BCE Q haplogroup
In wondering about the origin of our forefathers who carried the Q1b Y haplogroup gene, I have been tracking down any people who lived in the vicinity of where this group is known to have originated. This caught my eye. This is most interesting considering we are only 5% of Ashkenazi Jewish people. Q1b's are rather rare. That means that we are 5% of the 1% of the Jewish population of the whole world.
These 6 skeletal remains from 500 BCE were found in Pengyang, China, a farming and nomadic region. This place is situated in Guyuan, Ningxia, China, its geographical coordinates are 35° 51' 0" North, 106° 39' 0" East and its original name (with diacritics) is Pengyang. The funeral objects found with the skeletons show they were a nomadic people. The dna of the mt dna was of C, D4 and m1o, and Ydna of four of them was of haplogroup Q. The Q shows that they originated in Siberia. Scientists conclude that northern nomads had reached the Central Plain area of China about 2500 years ago.
These nomads found Central Asia easy for traveling because of wide grasslands that were suitable for horses, camels and just plain walking. Not far away was Russia where the Scythians lived at this time. They were a people who believed in many gods, such as Mithra, god of justice and contracts. However, they were a wild and warlike people who did not try to farm. They were around the Caucasus Mts area and other places.
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2010/02/ancient-dna-from-pengyang-nomads.html
http://www.bible-history.com/isbe/S/SCYTHIANS/
These 6 skeletal remains from 500 BCE were found in Pengyang, China, a farming and nomadic region. This place is situated in Guyuan, Ningxia, China, its geographical coordinates are 35° 51' 0" North, 106° 39' 0" East and its original name (with diacritics) is Pengyang. The funeral objects found with the skeletons show they were a nomadic people. The dna of the mt dna was of C, D4 and m1o, and Ydna of four of them was of haplogroup Q. The Q shows that they originated in Siberia. Scientists conclude that northern nomads had reached the Central Plain area of China about 2500 years ago.
These nomads found Central Asia easy for traveling because of wide grasslands that were suitable for horses, camels and just plain walking. Not far away was Russia where the Scythians lived at this time. They were a people who believed in many gods, such as Mithra, god of justice and contracts. However, they were a wild and warlike people who did not try to farm. They were around the Caucasus Mts area and other places.
Dienekes's blog reported thusly: yungsiyebu said...
Halpotypes of Pengyang nomads from upper yellow river match exactly with the present Mongolians, Siberians, Central Asian Turks and the altaic ethnicities of north China, that suggests there's a strong genetic link to ancient north asian groups, also consistent with their anthropological traits of north Mongoloid.
Resource: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20186156Ancient DNA from nomads in 2500-year-old archeological sites of Pengyang, China from Laboratory of Ancient DNA, Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology of Jilin University, Changchun, China
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/centralasia/religion/index.htmhttp://dienekes.blogspot.com/2010/02/ancient-dna-from-pengyang-nomads.html
http://www.bible-history.com/isbe/S/SCYTHIANS/
