Scythian warriors show genetic blending between Europeans and Asians

Past Horizons Archaeology ^ | November 2012 | Universitat Auonoma de Barcelona

[SunkenCiv]

It’s probably a matter of opinion, probably could be settled with a Gallop Poll.

Oh, sorry.

[Domestic Church]

They evidently blinded those they took in war according to Herodotus (and had some real strange cultural quirks to boot.)

http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Scythians.html

[SubMareener]

That is what my ancestry.com research seems to support.

[blueunicorn6]

Sounds like my family reunion.

[GeronL]

lolz

[GeronL]

bump

[bunkerhill7]

The Scythians were famous for inventing a chariot with rotating scythes on their chariot wheels that could mow down solders in battle and wheat in peacetime. It was the first convertible car.

[Nifster]

at least you know that you are speaking with an equal ;)

[GeronL]

Yes, but sometimes I’m not so sure

[Nifster]

I am always disappointed when I lose the argument...

[GeronL]

<— choked on ground beef patty

[OrioleFan]

Sythian - Dance All Night.

[Nifster]

sorry for that....sometimes I amuse even myself

[GeronL]

It was really funny

[COBOL2Java]

The team extracted and analysed mitochondrial DNA (inherited from the mother, it allows us to trace our ancestors) from the bones and teeth of 19 Pazyryk skeletons dating to the Bronze Age (7th to 10th century BCE) and from the Iron Age (2nd to 7th century BCE) from the Mongolian Altai Mountains.

It's incredible the doors to our past that modern technology can open for us.

[Oratam]

You are millions. We are hordes and hordes and hordes.
Try and take us on!
Yes, we are Scythians! Yes, we are Asians -
With slanted and greedy eyes!

Alexander Blok

[Verginius Rufus]

Our word "scythe" is of Anglo-Saxon origin and has nothing to do with the Scythians.

The Greek word for "scythe" was drepanon or drepane. Xenophon mentions the use of scythe-bearing (drepanephoros) chariots in the battle of Cunaxa.

Darius I campaigned against Scythians in southeastern Europe about 513 B.C. (the campaign is described at some length in Herodotus). Their language was part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.

Medieval Buddhist manuscripts have been found in Chinese Turkestan with two Indo-European languages, known as Tocharian A and Tocharian B, now extinct, that are closely related to each other and resemble the languages of Europe (the "centum" languages) more than the Indo-Iranian or Slavic languages (the "satem" languages) which were geographically closer to them.

[bunkerhill7]

Thw Scythians also invented Scotch, which they took into battle to fortify their scythe chariot drivers to enable the driver to steer randomly in a nonsensical pattern so as to confuse their enemies. It was the first DWI. [Driving Warrior Intoxicated].

[ABN 505]

I believe the Scythians were the first to rape Thrace thrice.

[SunkenCiv]

;’)