This study only concentrated on genetic signals found in Europe and parts of Western Asia.
Other sequences outside this range were not utilized.
More critically, I never bought the "Kalash are Greeks" origin story. It's a fairly common origin story all over the Northwest region of South Asia. There's a reason why the name "Sikandar" (Alexander) is extremely popular, and the Sikandar-Nama was written barely 300 miles away in Ghazni under Mahmud Ghazni's empire. And the "they have white skin" argument is dumb. There is a significant lack of genetic sequencing of Inner Asians, so a lot of the dataset just doesn't exist to make a claim one way or the other.
More critically? I missed your clear deduction from the evidence on how it is "dumb", as you say.
The Kalash are the people who Alexander (sikandar) left behind. So, you realize that is Hellenistic times, and not pre-Greek times (whatever that is) as mentioned in the article, right?
Also, your last sentence is confusing as well. Someone does not need to actively disprove all other possibilities to prove what actually was recorded in history.
Who do you believe the Kalash are- Sean Connery's subjects as per 'The Man Who Would be King'? lol
alephnerd|1 year ago
This study only concentrated on genetic signals found in Europe and parts of Western Asia.
Other sequences outside this range were not utilized.
More critically, I never bought the "Kalash are Greeks" origin story. It's a fairly common origin story all over the Northwest region of South Asia. There's a reason why the name "Sikandar" (Alexander) is extremely popular, and the Sikandar-Nama was written barely 300 miles away in Ghazni under Mahmud Ghazni's empire. And the "they have white skin" argument is dumb. There is a significant lack of genetic sequencing of Inner Asians, so a lot of the dataset just doesn't exist to make a claim one way or the other.
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