Quote: (07-17-2016 06:22 AM)Orion Wrote:
It's also stunning how much of Indo-European studies, which were of key interest to European classical anthropologists , somehow vanished from focus of interest.
Because according to Ideology™ Indo-Europeanness has nothing to do with whiteness, even tho both Hindus and Iranians for example, in their most ancient traditions, testify that their ancestor came from north, which is where white population resides to this day. Iranians state it is an island on the north, the most immediate candidate being Crimea, which is just where proto-Indoeuropean homeland is located. Iran is named after Aryans, and they still proudly claim to be of Aryan descent.
Yes. stunning and incompetent. As Hydrogonian writes, antrophology of the last 60 years, which QC refers to, has been thourougly and completely debunked as wishful thinking at best.
For example, the idea of the Anatolian spread of the Indo-Europeans, meant to place the 'Aryans' as Iranians spreading West with neolithic farmers. Or even worse, placing Indo-European language in India spreading West. With DNA evidence and further archeology, we now know this is obviously ludicrisly wrong.
In fact, genetics continue to prove pre-WW2 antrophology correct. Thor Heyerdahl claimed that the original inhabitants of the Easter Islands were not Polynesians but Europoid from South America. He was ridiculed by establishment until DNA testing proved him right in that they were at least from South America. Now we're waiting for someone to prove the second part of his thesis, that the pyramids of Meso-America and their myths of white gods from the East, are in fact also true. Heyerdahl believed it to be Phoenicians or similar and he also believed the Olmec to be black African.
Anthropologists used to claim that middle eastern farmers completely replaced indigneous Europeans around 7000bc. This of course to push the narrative: We're all Middle Easterners, we're all Africans. Genetics proved this to be utterly false. Where the Southern Euro might have 40-60% or more (in the case of Sicilians and such) of this Neolithic Farmer DNA, the average Scandinavian only has 10% or so.
Antrophologists used to claim that blue eyes were a mere sexual selection mutation found not before 5000bc. Now we know the Villabruna man of Italy from 14.000bc had blue eyes. Soon blue eyes will be proven to be indigneous to Europe.
Antrophologists used to laugh at the idea of Scandinavians being the 'modern Aryans' as the Nazis and Americans believed. Not until genetic testing proved that Scandinavians has the most DNA in common with the so called Yamnaya population of bronze age Ukraine, which most people peg as the closest to the proto-Indo-European people.
Genetics do one thing these days and that is to prove 'racist' pre-WW2 research correct.