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Ancient Anatolia, Original Land of Indo-Europeans!
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Cyrus Shahmiri View Drop Down
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    Posted: 24-Aug-2012 at 09:40
 
I think the most interesting thing is the map:
 
 
As you see, Central Asia is almost empty of any Indo-European speakers except some southern parts, it seems there were almost none of them in the eastern Europe more than 500 years ago, that is also interesting about Scandinavia and Iberia.
 
Anyway I think it is a possible theory, the earliest known Indo-European peoples lived in a region from the northwest Iran to the southeast Europe, probably from this region, Indo-european languages were spread to the west and the east.


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Indo-Europeans are mainly Haplogroup R (Y chromosome, from the father).  Their closest relatives would be Haplogroup Q (mainly American Indians and some Siberians/Altaics).  R and Q descended from P.  Their other distant relatives: Haplogroup O (Chinese and other East/Southeast Asians) and Haplogroup N (Finno-Uralic and some Siberians/Altaics).
 
It is really hard to know if the original Indo-European could possibly have started out Mongoloid in race but as they expanded west into Europe and east into India/Iran they became more and more Caucasoid by intermixing with the farmer groups originally from Middle East and Neanderthals.
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