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From: Charles <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Asian content in Europeans
Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 13:37:30 -0400
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Bonnie,

A few thousand here or there would only have affected local pockets of
the European population over time. But it appears that a large
percentage of the European population is affected with the East Asian
test result content using the DNAPrint 2.0 test. 1/3 of caucasian
Europeans tested so far according to FAQ'a in FamilyTreeDNA's website.
We need to keep in perspective that it would take a very large number of
transplanted genes from Asian sources, i.e., very large numbers of
people, to mathematically make a significant impact in the average
genetic makeup of the European population which was there pre-Roman
Empire time for a large significant average content to survive to modern
times. This appears to be true in upper Rhine and Danube River basins.
The Huns and Mongols and other Asian tribes from Mongolian environs who
invaded Europe by the many 100,000's, if not millions. While there are
small sources from all over, the large scale invasions by huge Asian
nomadic tribes, who came in large numbers, and who also slaughtered
local populations in large numbers in their conquests, is probably
overwhelmingly the main source. That is my best surmise.

Charles
http://www.kerchner.com/pa-gerdna.htm


Bonnie Schrack wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> After reading Joyce's story about Aberdeenshire,
> I thought I'd throw this in, just to mix things up a little more ;-)
>
> It bears more on our questions about Asiatic genes in Europe, rather
> than Melungeon research.
>
> Does anyone happen to know whether it's true that more than 5000
> Sarmatian warriors from Central Asia (their original homeland was
> probably northwest of the Caspian Sea) were recruited into the Roman
> legions, and sent as a group to the British borderlands with Scotland to
> defend Hadrian's Wall from Scottish and Pictish incursions, in 175 AD?
>
> They were then supposed to have been deployed to Gaul, and subsequently
> to Britain again. Some of them retired to a veteran's home (!) in
> Lancashire. The author says, "I always wonder how many unsuspecting
> modern-day Frenchmen and Britons, as well as Americans of those
> extractions, possess the genes of the ancient steppe warriors."
>
> All of this is taken from Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for
> History's Hidden Heroines, by Jeannine Davis-Kimball, PhD, who has
> appeared on NOVA and the Learning Channel, and is the founder and
> director of the American-Eurasian Research Institute and the Center for
> the Study of Eurasian Nomads.
>
> Her book argues that the position of women in some of the steppe nomadic
> groups, especially the Sauromatians and the Sarmatians, was much better
> then many people realize.
>
> I am going to do more research on the possible Sarmatian presence in
> Britain and France myself, but first I thought I'd ask whether anyone on
> the list had heard about it.
>
> Bonnie Schrack
>
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