Comments by "Ponto" (@Ponto-zv9vf) on "World of Antiquity" channel.

  1. People do make mistakes about the importance of haplogroups, however it is not a good enough reason to denigrate dna testing and trying to work out where in the world you and your cancestors lived at least in the last 200 years. Racism has nothing to do with race, it is a bigotry solely based on pigmentation. Pigmentation and race are often mistaken by bigots to be the same, hence the need of some to debunk race as nothing more than a concept. Money is a concept, I don't see anyone giving me their rubbish money afterall its a concept. Races are more than pigmentation, it's a bunch of things which can be ascertained from your dna. You are going on about ethnic identity is a concept, well ethnic identity cannot be seen in your dna, but your race can. The Dasyu weren't just dark skinned, they had certain features like a thick, short, pudgy nose, it's more than just dark skin. Whether you say Indo-European was just linguistic, and not racial. That is wrong, from their dna you can see exactly what their pigmentation was like, and their skeletons their skull shape, nose shape... You know your skeleton will show you are a common garden variety European type, unless you go for cremation. I find you biased. Why? I can only speculate, maybe it is your background in Arty Farty studies, the humanities.
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  2. You are a bit hard on those people who extract dna from ancient bones and teeth. I doubt they believe in a static pure group of people without genetic variation or that the ancestry of those ancient groups came from one group of people without admixture from other groups. Antolian farmers and those over emphasized Eurasian Steppe pastoralists with their horse fetish don't exist anymore. Europeans with a lot of Western Hunter Gatherer ancestry like Latvians have that WHG ancestry in tiny segments scattered around their genome and not in big chunks like you and I would have of our parents' genetic contribution.
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  3. Rational explanations and evidence has no effect because what those folks believe is like a religion, and they have their dogma.
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