Nemets
Interested in wild adventures, obscure tribes, & historical processes.
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Thread with excerpts from "Lies of the Tutsi in Eastern Congo/Zaire. A Case Study: South Kivu (Pre-Colonial to 2018)" by John Kapapi https://t.co/ijD67IKzRF
Thread with excerpts from "Nation, Language, Islam: Tatarstan's Sovereignty Movement" by Helen M. Faller https://t.co/IeJlkVRUUm
Donbass separatist leader Gubarev's complaints about Ukrainian economy 1991-2014. I don't know how true his claims are, but interesting the UEFA 2012 games caused such problems for...
A Dutchman guessed that the Kets had relatives in the Americas in 1708 https://t.co/Ev1JJf9jZJ
More evidence for a specifically northern Anatolian origin of at least some of the Helladics/Minoans/Cycladics: https://t.co/glzTmNx59g https://t.co/UF5aIdreRE
Peoples of Central Asia (including the Tarim Basin & central Siberia) had a lot of ANE ancestry into the 3rd millennium BC, and also had paleo-Siberian ancestry (distantly related...
Belgium was about as rich as the whole of black Africa in 1990 (from Robert Klitgaardโs โTropical Gangstersโ) https://t.co/lxFwv6zPDE
Not much mixing in Scandinavia with Europe in centuries before Viking Age. Lot of mixing with Balts in Gotland & British-Irish in S Sweden/Denmark during Viking Age, but they contr...
Lot of variance in Khoisan ancestry in South African Bantus - Tswana have the most (~20%), Tsonga the least (~1.5%). Khoisan ancestry is always entirely from women. https://t.co/Pt...
Vancouver https://t.co/DrSlVIuBQS
The EHG remnants (Choynovtinskaya) that survived the IE expansion north in the early Bronze Age (Fatyanovo-Balanovo) still appear to have only mixed with the Saami & pre-Permics du...
Chabu people of SW Ethiopian Highlands were hunter-gatherers until recently. Their ancestry, as well as that of the Majang, Bench, Sheko, Aari, & Gumuz is largely from populations...