This is a subject that will certainly ruffle some feathers and potentially cost me more than a few subscribers. But I’m sitting home in quarantine with nothing better to do, so I thought to myself, it’s time for a good old fashioned digital controversy. All joking aside though, if you thought the “dolma wars”...
DNA from a 7 thousand year old tooth found in a Cave in Artsakh perfectly matches with modern Armenians
Scholars from Britain, US, Denmark and Armenia led by Prof. Levon Yepiskoposyan have been examining prehistoric caves near the village of Azokh in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) and found unique artifacts from different periods, among them a tooth from a human who lived 7000 years ago. Due to the cave’s climate DNA was preserved inside the...
New Study (BBC): Ancient Tribes From Armenian Highlands and North Eurasia Gave Birth To Modern Europeans
Findings based on analysis of genomes from ancient Europeans (Nature journal reports) revealed that modern European gene pool was formed when three ancient populations mixed within the last 7,000 years. Blue-eyed swarthy hunter-gatherers, mingled with brown-eyed pale skinned farmers as well as northern Eurasians have been instrumental in the emergence of modern Europeans (BBC reports). Two of the 3...
European Languages originated in Armenian Highlands
A brand new study published in the latest edition of Science journal reveals the origins of the Indo-European language family located in ancient Armenian Highlands. The so called Anatolian urheimat theory first proposed in the late 1980s by Prof Colin Renfrew (now Lord Renfrew) received gradual acceptance, but remained controversial until a new method of studying language displacement was introduced...
