Probable anthropological migration hypotheses, and ethnographic records help us discover our family’s path from ancient history until now.
Most importantly: I implore you to never use this information to promote sexism, racism, nationalism or hatred. My driving force is curiosity and thirst for knowledge - never a desire to divide people - always to bring them closer and find things that we all have in common.
Your DNA is a beautiful tapestry of interwoven threads. Y-DNA passed from father to son is just one of the strings that we have the pleasure of admiring.
Please note: the analysis below has been performed by an amateur and not yet reviewed by the experts. The data this research is based on comes from open internet sources, validity of which needs to be carefully vetted to be certain of any conclusions made. My logic and intuition are not flawless and I welcome your feedback.
In a few words, in the past 20,000 years our ancestors:
transformed from Siberian ice age mammoth hunters to nomads looking for new prey as the climate changed,
from Anatolian hunter-gatherers became Caucasus cattle herders,
have left the East European Pontic Steppe to venture beyond Ural mountains into Asia,
once again roamed Siberian steppes, now as horsemen and pastoralists,
belonged to a number of nomadic cultures that left a huge mark in history,
settled and ruled their domain, then were driven out by fiercer rivals,
migrated, invaded and became Europeans.
Read the full story: Chuglazov Family Ancestral Breadcrumbs - archaeogenetics meets genealogy to tell a family story that spans millennia
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