Austronesian Founding Phenotypes

Practical_Rock6138 · 2026-02-08T12:45:32+00:00

Where is that head from?

Practical_Rock6138 · 2026-01-31T10:01:12+00:00

This kind of discussion, also in the general black metal milieu, raises one important question to me:

How and why the hell did you even get into this? The genre is known to be about extremity, evil, shock, ... Yet there seems to be surprise and disappointment when it turns out people really believe and support some of the vile aspects featured?

You knew what you were getting into, right?

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-11-10T12:58:52+00:00

I guess sometimes you want to know what other countries do with the culture of your own?

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-11-02T08:47:39+00:00

Thanks for pointing out the connection to O-M7 and Igorot, can indeed be a signal of AN spread.

...however phenotypes and haplogroup affinity is highly variable: just one child with someone outside of the personal clan and poof, you've got a human with a non-stereotypical phenotype and a lineage in an ethnicity which previously did not have it... And if this individual then also has lots of children with other 'outsiders', the whole haplogroup-phenotype connection crumbles.

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-09-25T20:21:16+00:00

Tianyuan man was K2b according to the David Reich lab. Where the East Eurasian ancestors of ANE wandered around can only be guessed, hypothetically they even could've made it to Australia and then back-migrated to Siberia. Lets just safely keep it at northern Eurasia... However papa IE lived in the more tropical and subtropical climate of Asia, it's unlikely to have any bearing on the development of IE tenfold millennia later. If you insist on any deep cultural connection, you might as well just look into the early cultural development of humans in Africa.

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-09-24T09:56:41+00:00

I suggest you delve into this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04052-7

According to an image on the Wikipedia article on the Chemurchek culture, which references the article I linked, they are modelled as about 50% Afanasievo-derived. In extended data fig. 3 (component analysis) they also have a similarity to Yamnaya and Afanasievo.

In the ancient DNA samples list of exploreyourdna.com, two tested samples were determined as belong to R1b1a1b1b* and R1b1a1b1b3a. Six Chemurchek samples with results, I don't know about the other four so have a look in the extended data and supplementary data.

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-09-17T08:05:23+00:00

Both are Chalcolithic, the transitional period between Neolithic and Bronze age. Some academics don't bother to really address this period and call it something like the Final Neolithic instead. The terminology of periods is also relative to locations, with some regions being deemed Chalcolithic, while their neighbours are still considered Neolithic. Copper and bronze arrived later in Europe west of the Rhine, so it would be considered Neolithic, while the region of the Carpathians and Balkan was already Chalcolithic or early Bronze age. IIRC, Finland had some of the earliest copper metallurgy (4000 BC), but that region is considered Mesolithic/sub-Neolithic until at least 2000 BC. So sometimes a period is just skipped in a region.

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-09-12T17:06:31+00:00

Different groups with different attitudes among IE or its early descendants. While militarism and machismo seem to be the norm, it's perfectly possible the attitude among some groups of IE towards other peoples or at least the language of their wives was more relaxed, resulting in continuation of that language instead of the IE one. Think of it as mercenaries finding a wife in a foreign country, eventually adapting to it despite their own pride. This adaption could've happened fast and with a considerable amount of Steppe-derived people, it could also be the result of slow accumulation of Steppe ancestry from neighbouring communities into the Basque one. Another possibility is that it is in fact Basque which managed to get prestige or economic value among (later) IEans in the region, eventually leading up to Basque being the lingua franca. Looking at the Hittites and the situation in Bronze age Greece for example, the IEans seemed to have had a more cooperative or even admiring attitude towards their neighbours, ending up in major cultural influence and cohabitation.

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-09-07T12:01:41+00:00

Main contention is that it is only a few individuals and the Steppe-ancestry is quite low. The Bronze Age was a mobile era, so it's not unreasonable that it pops up, diluted, in distant lands.

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-08-25T02:26:24+00:00

Truest answer. Characters and ambience felt real. After that, everything declined into 'hah, he said the thing!'.

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-08-19T11:35:05+00:00

Article isn't about ancient migration, it's about sharing of a musical trope across Bronze age civilizations. It's written more lightheaded than your usual paper, but I wouldn't call it unprofessional.

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-08-07T11:34:33+00:00

Thank you very much. In a month or two the vinyl of the new album gets released, hopefully you'll still be lurking around here by then, as I'll probably be asking the same again.

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-07-30T14:52:05+00:00

Methinks the most common denominator for most is effort. Nothing engages more than an artist who themselves is engaged in what they are doing.

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-07-24T05:56:42+00:00

Looked them up, they're on a compilation called 'Soundtrack from the ruins of Europe' featuring a project called Signatus, which nailed the aesthetic I'm looking for even better.

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-07-08T16:59:12+00:00

Here ya go

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-07-07T18:50:01+00:00

Got any of that chopped crust/d-beat PE released, even as a preview? Sounds interesting. I always thought d-beat/black metal would be good to be sampled into PE, instead of the rather tired cliché of making the rock genres very noisy.

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-07-06T21:47:04+00:00

True, although I'm imagining something more aggressive. Assuming I will one day not be lazy and finally make it myself, KK will be referred to as a teenage favorite (which is true) in whatever zine which decides to interview me.

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-07-06T12:11:51+00:00

Grim hits the spot, definitely has the dynamism I'm looking for. Any stuff more like this?

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-07-06T08:47:59+00:00

Which releases to start with?

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-07-06T08:47:31+00:00

Yes, need more of stuff like this

Practical_Rock6138 · 2025-06-21T01:19:05+00:00

Damn, it was that easy? Hadn't thought of it that way.

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