Genetic Correlates of European Ethnohistory

9419349罗伯特·索卡尔关于印欧语者的起源，目前有两种有争议的假说。科林·伦弗鲁爵士挑战了玛丽亚·辛布塔斯提出的既定观点，即欧洲的印欧化在公元前4400年至2800年之间从黑海以北的庞蒂克草原分三波进行。伦弗鲁的印欧人出现在安纳托利亚的时间要早得多(约公元前7000年)。并以早期农学家的身份进入欧洲，随着新石器时代的传播在欧洲各地分布。这两个假设应该对欧洲群体之间随后的人口关系产生截然不同的后果。罗伯特·索卡尔建立了一个关于欧洲民族史的独特数据库，记录了从公元前2200年到现在最著名的种族单位的位置和运动。在早些时候的一个试点项目中，他已经建立了该数据库在进一步预测欧洲大陆上的遗传变异模式方面的效用。他现在可以着手检验印欧裔起源和在欧洲扩散的两个主要(且相互冲突的)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. ***