tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post1039043651638145682..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Terai and Duars Y-chromosomesDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-29670736950973176702011-09-16T07:10:49.772+03:002011-09-16T07:10:49.772+03:00"It seems to me more associated with recent r..."It seems to me more associated with recent rice farming, no?" <br /><br />I would think so.terrythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17327062321100035888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-37425012544172169352011-09-15T00:22:57.609+03:002011-09-15T00:22:57.609+03:00Terai is the birthplace of Shakyamuni Buddha. Some...Terai is the birthplace of Shakyamuni Buddha. Some historians believed that His clan the Shakyas or Sakkas came from the indo-iranian Sakas. R1a was maybe the haplogroup of Buddha.mregdnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08210210663227034644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-10744665681684128922011-09-13T02:57:14.238+03:002011-09-13T02:57:14.238+03:00The spread of O3a3c1-M117 is just amazing (see als...The spread of O3a3c1-M117 is just amazing (see also the Cai et al. paper above). It looks like it truly may have wiped out much of the original D in the region.<br /><br />However, to make sense of the migration patterns, one would need to identify much finer subgroups. Just because O seems ancestral in SE Asia doesn't mean that O3a3c1-M117 indicates the typically assumed counter-clockwise migration pattern. It seems to me more associated with recent rice farming, no?eurologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03440019181278830033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-56066943338856250812011-09-13T01:57:14.661+03:002011-09-13T01:57:14.661+03:00Normally H would be considered indigenous South As...Normally H would be considered indigenous South Asian, O would be Southeast Asian or East Asian, and R would be West Asian. <br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terai" rel="nofollow">Terai</a> is a geographic rather than ethnic designation that includes multiethnic parts of India and Nepal and was traditionally a malaria infested swamp forest (I would make an analogy to rural Louisiana but cooler due to elevation). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duars" rel="nofollow">Duras (aka Dooars)</a> is the ecological continuation of this geographic multiethnic region between Bengal and Bhutan and includes Darjeeling after which the tea is named.<br /><br />Ethnically it is very complex and only getting more so as modernization has made it possible for new ethnic groups to move in and forces like Lutheran missionaries have changed the cultural landscape.Andrew Oh-Willekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.com