Genetic Correlates of European Ethnohistory

[04:19349]罗伯特·索卡尔目前关于印欧语使用者的起源有两种相互争论的假设。科林·伦弗鲁爵士对Marija Cimbutas提出的既定观点提出了质疑，该观点认为，欧洲的印欧化在公元前4400年至公元前2800年之间分三波从黑海以北的本蒂克草原开始。Renfrew认为印欧人更早出现在安纳托利亚（约公元前7000年），并作为早期的农学家进入欧洲，随着新石器时代的传播，他们分布在欧洲各地。这两种假设对于后来欧洲族群之间的人口关系应该会产生非常不同的结果。罗伯特·索卡尔（Robert Sokal）建立了一个独特的欧洲民族历史数据库，记录了从公元前2200年至今大多数已知民族单位的位置和活动。在一个早期的试点项目中，他已经建立了数据库的效用，可以进一步预测欧洲大陆的遗传变异模式。他现在可以继续测试关于印欧起源和在欧洲传播的两种主要的（相互矛盾的）假设。* * *

9419349 Robert Sokal There are currently two contending hypotheses for the origin of the Indo-European speakers. Sir Colin Renfrew has challenged the established view, propounded by Marija Cimbutas, that the Indo-Europeanization of Europe proceeded in three waves between 4400 and 2800 B.C. from the Pontic Steppes, north of the Black Sea. Renfrew has the Indo- Europeans arising in Anatolia much earlier (ca. 7000 B.C.) and entering Europe as early agriculturalists, distributing themselves through Europe with the spread of the Neolithic. Both of these hypotheses should have very different consequences for the subsequent population relationships among European groups. Robert Sokal has constructed a unique database on European ethnohistory, recording the location and movements of most known ethnic units from 2200 B.C. to the present. In an earlier pilot project, his has established the utility of the database in making further predictions of patterns of genetic variation over the European continent. He can now proceed to testing the two overarching (and conflicting) hypotheses of Indo-European origins and dispersal in Europe. ***