The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia – Some thoughts, Part 1

While we await a new preprint (or the final version) of Narasimhan et al. 2018 I’d like to comment on several random things related to it. Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC) When Victor Sarianidi first excavated the BMAC sites, his hypothesis was that it represented a migration from Syro-Anatolia to the east. Then, as in the… Continue Reading


So what was going on around the Caucasus?

Thanks to the preprint discussed in the previous post, we now have a good amount of aDNA from around the Caucasus that can help us understand what was going on in this key region. The answers are still not clear, but we can take a look at what we have and see what we have… Continue Reading