How can our pre-Islamic ancestors be claimed to be following Brahmanic or Zorastrian traditions if they ate beef and buried their dead?

[Maira La]

Some more facial reconstructions from Sintashta. How could these skulls be available if they burned their dead:

These people contributed around 70% of the ancestry of modern Northern and Eastern Europeans..

 

[Gaomayaslayer]

am hungry lets eat, oh look buffalo yum meat.

Bro I haven't tried buffalo meat yet.

 

[Azadkashmir]

Bro I haven't tried buffalo meat yet.

dont worry soon you will.

 

[ThunderCat]

These people contributed around 70% of the ancestry of modern Northern and Eastern Europeans..

Modern Europeans had already branched off. If you mean shared ancestry, we can agree. The influenced Iranic peoples such the Scythians had on European during the Iron Age doesn't count since it is mixing.

 

[Maira La]

Modern Europeans had already branched off. If you mean shared ancestry, we can agree. The influenced Iranic peoples such the Scythians had on European during the Iron Age doesn't count since it is mixing.

Sintashta is essentially a clone of Corded Ware, ancestor of modern Europeans. In the model in my previous post, I get the same percentage of admixture whichever one (CW vs Sintashta) I use as reference coordinates for Steppe MLBA.

 

[ThunderCat]

Sintashta is essentially a clone of Corded Ware, ancestor of modern Europeans. In the model in my previous post, I get the same percentage of admixture whichever one (CW vs Sintashta) I use as reference coordinates for Steppe MLBA.

It's an off-shoot of Yamnaya, as are modern Europeans.

 

[Maira La]

It's an off-shoot of Yamnaya, as are modern Europeans.

Looks like we're having the same argument again. Yamnaya shares ancestry with Corded Ware, it's not the ancestor of Corded Ware. The dominant y-dna haplogroup of Corded Ware was not found among Yamnaya samples.