10-22-2016, 12:18 AM
Evan,
Your last point is true... but a little exclusive. Chances that they were related to the Taifali would be minimal, since the defeated Taifali were relocated in north-central Italy around 378-79. However, Europe must have had an earlier Alanic presence in members of the Roxolani and some early Sarmatian tribes. That gene pool could easily give us Asiatic variations and haplogroups like Q, A, and D. I don't find anything unusual in these "discoveries" of Asiatic types in Europe, considering the Eastern presence would have begun sometime in the 1st century BC to the first century of the common era.
I do find it annoying that these archaeologists (or whatever they are) automatically assume that a Chinese individual should get lost and wander across the expanse of 6,000 kilometers to enter Italy or Britain as a "slave. They should know about the Eastern Asiatic background of other groups, since archaeology was designed to enhance historicity.
Your last point is true... but a little exclusive. Chances that they were related to the Taifali would be minimal, since the defeated Taifali were relocated in north-central Italy around 378-79. However, Europe must have had an earlier Alanic presence in members of the Roxolani and some early Sarmatian tribes. That gene pool could easily give us Asiatic variations and haplogroups like Q, A, and D. I don't find anything unusual in these "discoveries" of Asiatic types in Europe, considering the Eastern presence would have begun sometime in the 1st century BC to the first century of the common era.
I do find it annoying that these archaeologists (or whatever they are) automatically assume that a Chinese individual should get lost and wander across the expanse of 6,000 kilometers to enter Italy or Britain as a "slave. They should know about the Eastern Asiatic background of other groups, since archaeology was designed to enhance historicity.
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
