Over the last 14 months I’ve written on the order of 200,000 words on this Substack, with the majority focused on particular geographic locales. Indulging my inner elementary-school geography nerd, I totaled up word counts roughly by region. This required the occasional arbitrary judgement call: whereas
As a Finn, I probably should be nothing but grateful for the Fenno coverage. Yet there are details that still remain unclear and frustrate me, such as clear timelines, sources and directions of different population waves, and also the detailed picture of the populations admixed in Finland and surrounding areas after the Fennic (Proto-Finnish-speaking) tribes crossed over from Estonia, such as to what extent were the Saami-like people in southern Finland integrated (admixed) or driven out. Also, what populations admixed into the Fennic and Saami tribes arriving in Finland through their journey from Siberia and what languages did they speak: also e.g. who were the Proto-Uralic speakers, and when and how were the Siberian genes introduced and to what kind of population(s)?
I guess we don't know a lot about these yet, but it would be great to know when we do. There are also interesting people to chat about these topics, such as the Estonian archeologist Valter Lang whose recent work Homo Fennicus (as of today, only in Finnish and Estonian, hope they translate it to English at some point) covers and speculates on a lot of the above questions.
As a Brazilian, it bugs me that I don't find much info on South America. The discovery of Luzia, which is clearly anatomically different than the indigenous peoples found when Columbus arrived, which matches the findings of recent genetic discoveries. Besides, there is the puzzling distribution of indigenous ethnic groups in Brazil, with the distribution of Tupi-Guarani and Macro-Jê groups which has looked to me as a result of a recent Tupi-Guarani expansion after I read Jared Diamonds books and his depiction of the Bantu, Chinese and Indo-European expansions.
As a Finn, I probably should be nothing but grateful for the Fenno coverage. Yet there are details that still remain unclear and frustrate me, such as clear timelines, sources and directions of different population waves, and also the detailed picture of the populations admixed in Finland and surrounding areas after the Fennic (Proto-Finnish-speaking) tribes crossed over from Estonia, such as to what extent were the Saami-like people in southern Finland integrated (admixed) or driven out. Also, what populations admixed into the Fennic and Saami tribes arriving in Finland through their journey from Siberia and what languages did they speak: also e.g. who were the Proto-Uralic speakers, and when and how were the Siberian genes introduced and to what kind of population(s)?
I guess we don't know a lot about these yet, but it would be great to know when we do. There are also interesting people to chat about these topics, such as the Estonian archeologist Valter Lang whose recent work Homo Fennicus (as of today, only in Finnish and Estonian, hope they translate it to English at some point) covers and speculates on a lot of the above questions.
As a Brazilian, it bugs me that I don't find much info on South America. The discovery of Luzia, which is clearly anatomically different than the indigenous peoples found when Columbus arrived, which matches the findings of recent genetic discoveries. Besides, there is the puzzling distribution of indigenous ethnic groups in Brazil, with the distribution of Tupi-Guarani and Macro-Jê groups which has looked to me as a result of a recent Tupi-Guarani expansion after I read Jared Diamonds books and his depiction of the Bantu, Chinese and Indo-European expansions.
Shouldn't Ashkenazi Jewish genetics go under Mediterranean? It's right there in the title.