Re: Ossetians and Pashto similarities

From: alexV (alexV7623_at_comcast.net)
Date: 09/05/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 21:29:01 -0400

"Daniel" <xenos@onetel.net.uk> wrote in message
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> "AlexV" <alexV@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> > Ancestors of Pashtuns and Ossetians are by and large the same people:
those
> > tribes from Anatolia who first began speaking PIE 10,000-6,000 years
ago. Of
> > course, over centuries and millennia through migration and perhaps
mixing
> > with some other groups a certain admixture of other ethnic genes could
have
> > taken place. I hope one day it will be elucidated and clearly documented
via
> > genetic population studies.
>
> this is intersting. do u know about the
> research on mitochondrial DNA and the language link...?
>
> migration of people is only half the issue. turns
> out theres genetic similarities matching with language
> similarities not explicible by migration histories alone.

You are actually quite right on it.

>we
> need another way to explain this but - heres what mattters - it still
> can be understood as geneticly influenced.

Again, I applaud it.

I should only add that I wish I had a better understanding of the matter
myself. So far I have advanced so far as to see obvious inconsistencies (in
others) when the material (genetic) evidence is not taken into account but I
wish I could tell the *truth.* No, it is not the case. I cannot.

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