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January 2019

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Kalash people. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. 1. The source articles do not mention European origin of Kalash 2. Yamnayans are called Steppe people the sources 3. The Damgaard et al say "Our findings reveal that the early spread of Yamnaya Bronze Age pastoralists had limited genetic impact in Anatolia as well as Central and South Asia"

Fylindfotberserk (talk) 13:41, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Fylindfotberserk: Please see the wikipedia page for Yamnaya - they come from the Pontic-Caspian steppe which is in Europe. Also the proposed source of Yamnaya DNA in Kalash and India is Andronovo culture, and Andronovo people were descended not only from Yamnaya but also from Neolithic European farmers making them genetically like modern day Northern Europeans. In any case, the Razib Khan podcast I linked to (not just the show notes) states all this if you take the time to listen to it. If you accept that Kalash had Yamnaya DNA and that Yamnaya came from Russia/Ukraine and that they had 80% European hunter gatherer ancestry, then how can you say Kalash don't have European ancestry? If my way of communicating the most up to date scientific evidence on this subject was not in line with wikipedia rules, perhaps you would be so kind as to update the page properly? The Damgaard article states limited steppe ancestry, but that is stilll European ancestry, and analysis of modern Kalash DNA shows 28% steppe MLBA in modern Kalash people.