+Ethnic shifts

Intro

Ethnic shifts provide important context for development of later social organizations.

Initial peopling

Islamic invasions

  • Finally, during the Islamic invasions, we get some Turkik input.
  • These seem to have left comparatively little genetic footprints even among muslims. Partly because they are genetically very similar to the earlier Aryan influx - albeit more admixed with Turkik markers. “Detectable ancestry - probably less than 10%, closer to 1%.” - RK