Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ha ha, at first glance, I thought they are just European tourists :-) Yes, the silk road area is quite mixed. Then again, even the Indians have the native blood and the Aryan blood... On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj<jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > Douglas, > Thanks for looking. There are three very different sets of genes at > work in that part of India, one is the typical plains Indian, the next > is the equally typical mongoloid from Tibet/Ladakh and thirdly there > are those that can pass off comfortably as European or Central Asian; > and you are right, it probably is because all sorts of races have been > going back and forth over this area since ancient times. The other > theory, also possible, is that these people with European features are > descendants of soldiers from Alexander the Great's army, who stayed > back in India when he returned to Macedonia. -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // w: http://www.rfman.com blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963