[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @Sulkalmakh Ancestral Whispers Ancestral Whispers posts on X about culture, the north, kazakhstan, tribe the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1244265966122545152/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX +783% - X Month XXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +21% - X Year XXXXXXXXX +2.80% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1244265966122545152/posts_active)  - X Month XX -XX% - X Months XX +25% - X Year XXX +86% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1244265966122545152/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +6.40% - X Month XXXXXX +7.80% - X Months XXXXXX +18% - X Year XXXXXX +45% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1244265966122545152/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) **Social topic influence** [culture](/topic/culture) #706, [the north](/topic/the-north) #342, [kazakhstan](/topic/kazakhstan) #105, [tribe](/topic/tribe) #624, [tepe](/topic/tepe) #7, [armenia](/topic/armenia) #208, [iran](/topic/iran) #81, [native](/topic/native) #1041, [major](/topic/major) #186, [mongolia](/topic/mongolia) #124 ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Facial reconstruction of a Yamnaya man dated to 48704490ybp. Discovered in a single kurgan at Shumaevo in the Orenburg region. He had very large cranial length of 197mm a medium-small cranial width of 137mm and a massive inharmonious jaw with a bigonial breadth of 121mm" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1965012586744733709) 2025-09-08T11:21Z 24.3K followers, 47.3K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a 3000-year-old man from Ossetia The Koban culture emerged by the end of the Bronze Age during a period of major Kartvelian expansion throughout the Caucasus. At this time the Kartvelians experienced significant population growth and technological progress which enabled their expansion into Shida Kartli and the North Caucasus. On the basis of this expansion the Koban culture was formed bringing forth advanced metallurgy and the distinctive Kobanian axes structurally very similar to the Colchian axes characteristic of the Colchian culture. Over time the Koban culture" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1979861389096239590) 2025-10-19T10:45Z 24.3K followers, 30.1K engagements "Facial Reconstruction of a 3500-Year-Old Man from Huln Moravia Czech Republic The Tumulus culture was the dominant material culture in Central Europe during the Middle Bronze Age. This culture believed to have originated around 1600 BCE is often associated with the Italo-Celtic peoples. In Moravia and Bohemia the Tumulus culture is represented through its distinctive burial practices including the construction of burial mounds or "tumuli" which often contain rich grave goods and skeletal remains. These burial mounds were typically placed on elevated ground. The people of Moravia and Bohemia" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1987491909330182217) 2025-11-09T12:06Z 24.3K followers, 24.7K engagements "Facial reconstruction of Loschbour Man an 8000-year-old WHG from Luxembourg. The man had a very large cranial length of XXX mm a small cranial width of 132mm and a large facial breadth of XXX mm. His height was approximately XXX cm" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1886791838134157645) 2025-02-04T15:00Z 24.2K followers, 50K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a Celtic woman from Tulln Austria who belonged to the Hallstatt culture. Her cranial morphology was classified by anthropologists as Mediterranean" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1951236459978981667) 2025-08-01T10:59Z 24.3K followers, 28.6K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a Middle Bronze Age Aryan man from Kokcha Khwarazm Uzbekistan belonging to an Indo-Iranian Andronovo-derived tribe of the Tazabagyab culture" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1970095846709776697) 2025-09-22T12:00Z 24.3K followers, 215.2K engagements "Facial reconstruction of an EBA woman from a kurgan in Ossetia belonging to the Maykop culture. Maykop culture is characterized by abundance of wealth featuring the earliest known sword stringed instrument and column as well as trade networks reaching as far as South Asia" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1971567401318986041) 2025-09-26T13:27Z 24.3K followers, 49K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a man from Pakistan belonging to the LBA-EIA Gandhara Grave culture. He had a large cranial length of XXX mm a medium cranial width of XXX mm an average cranial capacity of 1382 cc and a massive mandible. Anthropologists classify him as Paleoeuropid" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1967201123758198890) 2025-09-14T12:17Z 24.3K followers, 19.9K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a Yamnaya elite from Boldyrevo Orenburg region. He was buried in a kurgan with rich grave goods including copper and meteoritic iron knife a socketed spear a bimetallic tool with a meteoritic iron blade and various other meteoritic iron objects" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1969391583913992363) 2025-09-20T13:21Z 24.3K followers, 112K engagements "Facial reconstruction of an Eneolithic woman from Monjuklu Tepe Turkmenistan. Eneolithic population of Monjuklu was genetically largely Iran_N with some additional ANE. Morphologically she showed a strong cranial affinity to the Mohenjo-Daro and South Indian cranial series" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1969733380179681423) 2025-09-21T12:00Z 24.3K followers, 25.6K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a Pazyryk Scythian man Berel Altai Kazakhstan kurgan XX. This man around XX years old was buried in the same kurganrich in accompanying inventoryas a woman of about XX years. Morphologically the two differed: the man displayed more West Eurasian traits and was likely of local Pazyryk Iranic Scythian elite origin whereas the woman exhibited more East Eurasian traits (similar individuals with such features are found in both common and elite burials such as at the Ak-Alakha-3; X cemetery) likely associated with the Korgantas culture and has been speculated by" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1974414559407394914) 2025-10-04T10:01Z 24.3K followers, 84.8K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a 2800-year-old man from Armenia According to Assyrian sources from the 9th8th centuries BC the state of Urartu gradually formed on the Armenian Highlands. Early texts mention the lands of Uruatri a tribal confederation resisting Assyrian expansion and linked to the Hurrians and Subarians. Urartu was a vast but diverse state that united many peoples by force; the Urartians themselves formed only the ruling elite. The Kingdom of Van arose from a union of tribes. In annexed lands local rulers often remained in power under Urartian governors. Despite a well-organized" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1982067223150653857) 2025-10-25T12:50Z 24.3K followers, 87.8K engagements "Facial reconstructions of the Hasanlu Lovers The people of Iron Age Hasanlu were genetically a mixture of Zagrosians Upper Mesopotamians and Proto-Armenics. Hasanlu is an archaeological site of an ancient city located in northwest Iran in the province of West Azerbaijan just south of Lake Urmia. The settlement was likely associated with the Mannaeans a Hurro-Urartian people with a possible Indo-European substrate related to the Armenic branch. The site is most famous for its catastrophic destruction. At the end of the 9th century BC Hasanlu was violently sacked and burned preserving a single" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1982397306998538289) 2025-10-26T10:42Z 24.3K followers, 83.6K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a 5400-year-old man from Kazakhstan The people of the Eneolithic Botai culture were about XX% ANE with the remainder being East Eurasian and a small amount of WHG ancestry introduced through EHG gene flow. Populations today with high ANE ancestry include West Siberians Native Americans Finno-Ugric peoples Dagestanis Pamiris and some Dardic and Haryanvi groups. The Botai culture emerged during the transition from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle which involved a wide range of game to a more sedentary way of life centered on horse meat consumption. Botai settlements" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1983201537733349517) 2025-10-28T15:57Z 24.3K followers, 76.9K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a 1200-year-old Yenisei Kyrgyz Their earliest historical mention comes from Chinese chronicles. The Book of Han mentions the lands of Jiankun/Gekun (). They were Iranic Scythian peoples associated with the Tashtyk and Tagar cultures. In the north they were conquered by and submitted to Modu Chanyu leader of the Turkic Xiongnu. Some time later another wave of Turks conquered the Gekuns. These Turks came to be known as the Yenisei Kyrgyz. Having assimilated a large portion of these Scythian populations the Yenisei Kyrgyz became a syncretic people with strong local" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1983508702486282602) 2025-10-29T12:18Z 24.3K followers, 483K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a 1300-year-old North Caucasian Alan from Kislovodsk The Alans were an Iranic Sarmatian tribe who appeared in the region between the Don River and the Caspian Sea around the 1st century AD. Having taken part in the major migrations and political events of Europe a group of Alans also settled in the Caucasus where they mixed with and influenced the local populations. This individual belonged to a man over XX years old. His cranial type was identified as Caucasoid but with elements of East Asian traits likely linked to the Huns a Turkic people who also settled in the" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1989280964502011998) 2025-11-14T10:35Z 24.3K followers, 126.6K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a 5100-year-old man from Kalmykia belonging to the Maykop culture The Maykop culture was an EneolithicEarly Bronze Age culture of the North Caucasus. Genetically the Maykopians were a mixture of CHG Upper Mesopotamian farmer-descended groups of the South Caucasus and some admixture from local Steppe populations. It was a highly sophisticated and influential culture for its time. The Maykop culture has yielded the earliest known sword stringed instrument and column all discovered at the Klady site in Adygea. Their trading network extended as far as South Asia as" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1990794761054150690) 2025-11-18T14:50Z 24.3K followers, 24K engagements "Facial Reconstruction of a 4000-year-old woman from Xinjiang belonging to the Gumugou culture. The Early Middle Bronze Age people of the Tarim Basin were about XX% Ancient North Eurasian with the rest being East Eurasian. Populations today with high ANE ancestry include West Siberians Native Americans Finno-Ugric peoples Dagestanis Pamiris and some Dardic and Haryanvi groups. These people lived in harsh isolated conditions often resorting to hunting vultures badgers snakes and lizards. Isolation and environmental stress led to stunted height - average male XXX cm female XXX cm. Many remains" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1991164461374136428) 2025-11-19T15:19Z 24.3K followers, 22.9K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a 4000-year-old Aryan man from Chelyabinsk The Sintashta culture is a Middle Bronze Age archaeological culture associated with the spread of Proto-Indo-Iranian languages. The physical anthropology of the Sintashta population is marked by pronounced heterogeneity visible both between sites and within individual burial grounds. Even within a single kurgan we see a mosaic of cranial types including Steppe European and Uraloid variants as well as those showing Southern European characteristics of the Middle Volga region (Balanovo culture) and Central Asia (Dzharkutan" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1992546261208097043) 2025-11-23T10:50Z 24.3K followers, 213.9K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a 2600-year-old man from Mtskheta Georgia The history of Bronze Age East Georgia is marked by several major cultural developments accompanied by shifts in population. In the Early Bronze Age (from ca. 3500 BC) East Georgia was dominated by the KuraAraxes culture whose genetic profile is associated with proto-NakhDagestanians. Around 2500 BC a new kurgan-building tradition emerged. This practice had already existed a few centuries earlier within a peripheral subgroup of the KuraAraxes culture in Imereti. Its influence spread into the North Caucasus and contributed to" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1993637213549064196) 2025-11-26T11:05Z 24.3K followers, 32.1K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a 2700-year-old woman from Armenia The woman is from the Jrapi necropolis in Shirak Armenia dated to the Urartian period. The population that inhabited the region during that period belonged to the Arm_MLBA cluster which is associated with Proto-Armenic people. Jrapi was a densely populated economically developed and militarized settlement. Both men and women were buried with weapons indicating widespread martial involvement. Thirteen female graves were studied at Jrapi all containing weapons such as swords spearheads and arrowheads. Burials were typically in" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1993975279933432068) 2025-11-27T09:28Z 24.3K followers, 16.5K engagements "Facial reconstruction of an Iron Age man from Norway In the 6th-5th centuries BC rising conflicts between Celtic and Mediterranean cultures disrupted the long-established trade routes linking Scandinavia with the south. Scandinavian society changed rapidly: agriculture intensified larger settlements emerged and slavery (rare in the Bronze Age) began to appear. Due to a lack of tin Scandinavia shifted from bronze to locally produced bog iron gradually reshaping its tools economy and agriculture. Although foreign trade declined population levels and technological development continued to grow" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1994350054010749145) 2025-11-28T10:18Z 24.3K followers, 31.8K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a 4600-year-old Yamnaya from Chelyabinsk She belonged to the Ural variant of the Yamnaya culture known as the Tamarutkul type which was contemporaneous with the early Poltavka sites of the Volga region and carried the mtDNA lineage T2a1a. The anthropologist Alexander Khokhlov writes (in Paleoanthropological Materials of the Beginning of the Metal Epoch of the South of the Volga Region the Cis-Ural Region and Western Kazakhstan: Yamnaya Kurgan Cultures) that the Kizilskyi skulls are dolichocranial and have a medium to broad tall face with pronounced horizontal" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1995434336758182268) 2025-12-01T10:06Z 24.3K followers, 51.1K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a 5100-year-old Afanasievan from Mongolia with Yamnaya-like auDNA He carried Y-DNA haplogroup J1a2b and mtDNA U5a1. His maternal lineage associated with European hunter-gatherers was widespread among Indo-Europeans. His paternal lineage J1a2b has been previously detected in the Khvalynsk culture; a downstream of this haplogroup also dominates the Y-DNA of the Kura-Araxes culture possibly suggesting a dispersal of J1a2b from the Caucasus into the Steppe where a related branch persisted and became the main haplogroup of the Kura-Araxes culture. The man belonging to the" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1996144455372382600) 2025-12-03T09:08Z 24.3K followers, 342.9K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a 2700-year-old Scythian/Saka from the Sokolovka site in Kazakhstan The Scythians also known as the Saka were an Iranic-speaking people who originated in the regions of Minusinsk Altai Tuva Mongolia and Xinjiang. The male Scythian/Saka skulls of Kazakhstan are characterized by medium longitudinal and transverse diameters giving a cranial index of XXXX which lies at the lower boundary of brachycrany. The skull height is low (131.6 mm) and the forehead is relatively wide (99.6 mm) and somewhat sloping with a more pronounced than average glabella and superciliary arches." [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1996514309992485222) 2025-12-04T09:37Z 24.3K followers, 227.1K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a 7660-year-old EHG from Lebyazhinka This Eastern Hunter-Gatherer individual was found in the Samara region. His Y-DNA was R1b-P297 and his mtDNA U5a1d. Pigmentation analysis indicates that he carried genes for light skin light hair and blue eyes. His cranial measurements include a medium-large cranial length of XXX mm a medium-small cranial width of XXX mm and a large cheek width of XXX mm. The idea of a distinct Sub-Ural population stratum emerging in deep antiquity was developed on the basis of Early Neolithic skulls recovered from burials near the villages of" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1997226888855453835) 2025-12-06T08:49Z 24.3K followers, 48.2K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a 10000-year-old man from Iran Found at Ganj Dareh Tepe a Neolithic site with some of the earliest evidence of goat domestication in the world. The individuals from Ganj Dareh belong to the Iran_N genetic cluster and most carry Y-DNA haplogroup R2 which is associated with the dispersal of Ancient North Eurasian ancestry. This young adult was described by anthropologist Peter Lambert as follows: This individual is the third of the sarcophagus burial group and is complete except for several vertebrae and portions of the skull and pelvis. The mandible and both maxillae" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1998329567031783929) 2025-12-09T09:51Z 24.3K followers, 122.5K engagements "Facial reconstruction of an Eneolithic man from Ginchi Dagestan. The man exhibited artificial cranial deformation the result of intentional head binding - a practice widespread in the Eneolithic Caucasus and already well established in the Neolithic Middle East. The Neolithic and Eneolithic populations of the eastern Caucasus were largely of Upper Mesopotamian descent which may explain the adoption of this custom. The tradition of skull binding in Dagestan and South Caucasus is speculated to have been a source and diffusion point for the same practice later observed among the Indo-European" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1973055600146739699) 2025-09-30T16:01Z 24.3K followers, 31K engagements "Facial reconstruction of a 3750-year-old acromegalic Aryan smith from Chelyabinsk He belonged to the proto-Indo-Iranian Sintashta culture which traces its origins farther to the west in Europe. In the late 1970s archaeologists discovered a fortified settlement of the Sintashta people in the Troitsk district of the Chelyabinsk region which was named Chernorechye-III. A few years later not far from it researchers also identified the ancient cemetery of Krivoe Ozero where its inhabitants may have been buried. In the third grave of barrow number ten archaeologists found the skeleton of an adult" [X Link](https://x.com/Sulkalmakh/status/1998780125794410965) 2025-12-10T15:41Z 24.3K followers, 30.3K engagements
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"Facial reconstruction of a Yamnaya man dated to 48704490ybp. Discovered in a single kurgan at Shumaevo in the Orenburg region. He had very large cranial length of 197mm a medium-small cranial width of 137mm and a massive inharmonious jaw with a bigonial breadth of 121mm"
X Link 2025-09-08T11:21Z 24.3K followers, 47.3K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3000-year-old man from Ossetia The Koban culture emerged by the end of the Bronze Age during a period of major Kartvelian expansion throughout the Caucasus. At this time the Kartvelians experienced significant population growth and technological progress which enabled their expansion into Shida Kartli and the North Caucasus. On the basis of this expansion the Koban culture was formed bringing forth advanced metallurgy and the distinctive Kobanian axes structurally very similar to the Colchian axes characteristic of the Colchian culture. Over time the Koban culture"
X Link 2025-10-19T10:45Z 24.3K followers, 30.1K engagements
"Facial Reconstruction of a 3500-Year-Old Man from Huln Moravia Czech Republic The Tumulus culture was the dominant material culture in Central Europe during the Middle Bronze Age. This culture believed to have originated around 1600 BCE is often associated with the Italo-Celtic peoples. In Moravia and Bohemia the Tumulus culture is represented through its distinctive burial practices including the construction of burial mounds or "tumuli" which often contain rich grave goods and skeletal remains. These burial mounds were typically placed on elevated ground. The people of Moravia and Bohemia"
X Link 2025-11-09T12:06Z 24.3K followers, 24.7K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of Loschbour Man an 8000-year-old WHG from Luxembourg. The man had a very large cranial length of XXX mm a small cranial width of 132mm and a large facial breadth of XXX mm. His height was approximately XXX cm"
X Link 2025-02-04T15:00Z 24.2K followers, 50K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a Celtic woman from Tulln Austria who belonged to the Hallstatt culture. Her cranial morphology was classified by anthropologists as Mediterranean"
X Link 2025-08-01T10:59Z 24.3K followers, 28.6K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a Middle Bronze Age Aryan man from Kokcha Khwarazm Uzbekistan belonging to an Indo-Iranian Andronovo-derived tribe of the Tazabagyab culture"
X Link 2025-09-22T12:00Z 24.3K followers, 215.2K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of an EBA woman from a kurgan in Ossetia belonging to the Maykop culture. Maykop culture is characterized by abundance of wealth featuring the earliest known sword stringed instrument and column as well as trade networks reaching as far as South Asia"
X Link 2025-09-26T13:27Z 24.3K followers, 49K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a man from Pakistan belonging to the LBA-EIA Gandhara Grave culture. He had a large cranial length of XXX mm a medium cranial width of XXX mm an average cranial capacity of 1382 cc and a massive mandible. Anthropologists classify him as Paleoeuropid"
X Link 2025-09-14T12:17Z 24.3K followers, 19.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a Yamnaya elite from Boldyrevo Orenburg region. He was buried in a kurgan with rich grave goods including copper and meteoritic iron knife a socketed spear a bimetallic tool with a meteoritic iron blade and various other meteoritic iron objects"
X Link 2025-09-20T13:21Z 24.3K followers, 112K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of an Eneolithic woman from Monjuklu Tepe Turkmenistan. Eneolithic population of Monjuklu was genetically largely Iran_N with some additional ANE. Morphologically she showed a strong cranial affinity to the Mohenjo-Daro and South Indian cranial series"
X Link 2025-09-21T12:00Z 24.3K followers, 25.6K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a Pazyryk Scythian man Berel Altai Kazakhstan kurgan XX. This man around XX years old was buried in the same kurganrich in accompanying inventoryas a woman of about XX years. Morphologically the two differed: the man displayed more West Eurasian traits and was likely of local Pazyryk Iranic Scythian elite origin whereas the woman exhibited more East Eurasian traits (similar individuals with such features are found in both common and elite burials such as at the Ak-Alakha-3; X cemetery) likely associated with the Korgantas culture and has been speculated by"
X Link 2025-10-04T10:01Z 24.3K followers, 84.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2800-year-old man from Armenia According to Assyrian sources from the 9th8th centuries BC the state of Urartu gradually formed on the Armenian Highlands. Early texts mention the lands of Uruatri a tribal confederation resisting Assyrian expansion and linked to the Hurrians and Subarians. Urartu was a vast but diverse state that united many peoples by force; the Urartians themselves formed only the ruling elite. The Kingdom of Van arose from a union of tribes. In annexed lands local rulers often remained in power under Urartian governors. Despite a well-organized"
X Link 2025-10-25T12:50Z 24.3K followers, 87.8K engagements
"Facial reconstructions of the Hasanlu Lovers The people of Iron Age Hasanlu were genetically a mixture of Zagrosians Upper Mesopotamians and Proto-Armenics. Hasanlu is an archaeological site of an ancient city located in northwest Iran in the province of West Azerbaijan just south of Lake Urmia. The settlement was likely associated with the Mannaeans a Hurro-Urartian people with a possible Indo-European substrate related to the Armenic branch. The site is most famous for its catastrophic destruction. At the end of the 9th century BC Hasanlu was violently sacked and burned preserving a single"
X Link 2025-10-26T10:42Z 24.3K followers, 83.6K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5400-year-old man from Kazakhstan The people of the Eneolithic Botai culture were about XX% ANE with the remainder being East Eurasian and a small amount of WHG ancestry introduced through EHG gene flow. Populations today with high ANE ancestry include West Siberians Native Americans Finno-Ugric peoples Dagestanis Pamiris and some Dardic and Haryanvi groups. The Botai culture emerged during the transition from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle which involved a wide range of game to a more sedentary way of life centered on horse meat consumption. Botai settlements"
X Link 2025-10-28T15:57Z 24.3K followers, 76.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 1200-year-old Yenisei Kyrgyz Their earliest historical mention comes from Chinese chronicles. The Book of Han mentions the lands of Jiankun/Gekun (). They were Iranic Scythian peoples associated with the Tashtyk and Tagar cultures. In the north they were conquered by and submitted to Modu Chanyu leader of the Turkic Xiongnu. Some time later another wave of Turks conquered the Gekuns. These Turks came to be known as the Yenisei Kyrgyz. Having assimilated a large portion of these Scythian populations the Yenisei Kyrgyz became a syncretic people with strong local"
X Link 2025-10-29T12:18Z 24.3K followers, 483K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 1300-year-old North Caucasian Alan from Kislovodsk The Alans were an Iranic Sarmatian tribe who appeared in the region between the Don River and the Caspian Sea around the 1st century AD. Having taken part in the major migrations and political events of Europe a group of Alans also settled in the Caucasus where they mixed with and influenced the local populations. This individual belonged to a man over XX years old. His cranial type was identified as Caucasoid but with elements of East Asian traits likely linked to the Huns a Turkic people who also settled in the"
X Link 2025-11-14T10:35Z 24.3K followers, 126.6K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5100-year-old man from Kalmykia belonging to the Maykop culture The Maykop culture was an EneolithicEarly Bronze Age culture of the North Caucasus. Genetically the Maykopians were a mixture of CHG Upper Mesopotamian farmer-descended groups of the South Caucasus and some admixture from local Steppe populations. It was a highly sophisticated and influential culture for its time. The Maykop culture has yielded the earliest known sword stringed instrument and column all discovered at the Klady site in Adygea. Their trading network extended as far as South Asia as"
X Link 2025-11-18T14:50Z 24.3K followers, 24K engagements
"Facial Reconstruction of a 4000-year-old woman from Xinjiang belonging to the Gumugou culture. The Early Middle Bronze Age people of the Tarim Basin were about XX% Ancient North Eurasian with the rest being East Eurasian. Populations today with high ANE ancestry include West Siberians Native Americans Finno-Ugric peoples Dagestanis Pamiris and some Dardic and Haryanvi groups. These people lived in harsh isolated conditions often resorting to hunting vultures badgers snakes and lizards. Isolation and environmental stress led to stunted height - average male XXX cm female XXX cm. Many remains"
X Link 2025-11-19T15:19Z 24.3K followers, 22.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4000-year-old Aryan man from Chelyabinsk The Sintashta culture is a Middle Bronze Age archaeological culture associated with the spread of Proto-Indo-Iranian languages. The physical anthropology of the Sintashta population is marked by pronounced heterogeneity visible both between sites and within individual burial grounds. Even within a single kurgan we see a mosaic of cranial types including Steppe European and Uraloid variants as well as those showing Southern European characteristics of the Middle Volga region (Balanovo culture) and Central Asia (Dzharkutan"
X Link 2025-11-23T10:50Z 24.3K followers, 213.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2600-year-old man from Mtskheta Georgia The history of Bronze Age East Georgia is marked by several major cultural developments accompanied by shifts in population. In the Early Bronze Age (from ca. 3500 BC) East Georgia was dominated by the KuraAraxes culture whose genetic profile is associated with proto-NakhDagestanians. Around 2500 BC a new kurgan-building tradition emerged. This practice had already existed a few centuries earlier within a peripheral subgroup of the KuraAraxes culture in Imereti. Its influence spread into the North Caucasus and contributed to"
X Link 2025-11-26T11:05Z 24.3K followers, 32.1K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2700-year-old woman from Armenia The woman is from the Jrapi necropolis in Shirak Armenia dated to the Urartian period. The population that inhabited the region during that period belonged to the Arm_MLBA cluster which is associated with Proto-Armenic people. Jrapi was a densely populated economically developed and militarized settlement. Both men and women were buried with weapons indicating widespread martial involvement. Thirteen female graves were studied at Jrapi all containing weapons such as swords spearheads and arrowheads. Burials were typically in"
X Link 2025-11-27T09:28Z 24.3K followers, 16.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of an Iron Age man from Norway In the 6th-5th centuries BC rising conflicts between Celtic and Mediterranean cultures disrupted the long-established trade routes linking Scandinavia with the south. Scandinavian society changed rapidly: agriculture intensified larger settlements emerged and slavery (rare in the Bronze Age) began to appear. Due to a lack of tin Scandinavia shifted from bronze to locally produced bog iron gradually reshaping its tools economy and agriculture. Although foreign trade declined population levels and technological development continued to grow"
X Link 2025-11-28T10:18Z 24.3K followers, 31.8K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 4600-year-old Yamnaya from Chelyabinsk She belonged to the Ural variant of the Yamnaya culture known as the Tamarutkul type which was contemporaneous with the early Poltavka sites of the Volga region and carried the mtDNA lineage T2a1a. The anthropologist Alexander Khokhlov writes (in Paleoanthropological Materials of the Beginning of the Metal Epoch of the South of the Volga Region the Cis-Ural Region and Western Kazakhstan: Yamnaya Kurgan Cultures) that the Kizilskyi skulls are dolichocranial and have a medium to broad tall face with pronounced horizontal"
X Link 2025-12-01T10:06Z 24.3K followers, 51.1K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 5100-year-old Afanasievan from Mongolia with Yamnaya-like auDNA He carried Y-DNA haplogroup J1a2b and mtDNA U5a1. His maternal lineage associated with European hunter-gatherers was widespread among Indo-Europeans. His paternal lineage J1a2b has been previously detected in the Khvalynsk culture; a downstream of this haplogroup also dominates the Y-DNA of the Kura-Araxes culture possibly suggesting a dispersal of J1a2b from the Caucasus into the Steppe where a related branch persisted and became the main haplogroup of the Kura-Araxes culture. The man belonging to the"
X Link 2025-12-03T09:08Z 24.3K followers, 342.9K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 2700-year-old Scythian/Saka from the Sokolovka site in Kazakhstan The Scythians also known as the Saka were an Iranic-speaking people who originated in the regions of Minusinsk Altai Tuva Mongolia and Xinjiang. The male Scythian/Saka skulls of Kazakhstan are characterized by medium longitudinal and transverse diameters giving a cranial index of XXXX which lies at the lower boundary of brachycrany. The skull height is low (131.6 mm) and the forehead is relatively wide (99.6 mm) and somewhat sloping with a more pronounced than average glabella and superciliary arches."
X Link 2025-12-04T09:37Z 24.3K followers, 227.1K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 7660-year-old EHG from Lebyazhinka This Eastern Hunter-Gatherer individual was found in the Samara region. His Y-DNA was R1b-P297 and his mtDNA U5a1d. Pigmentation analysis indicates that he carried genes for light skin light hair and blue eyes. His cranial measurements include a medium-large cranial length of XXX mm a medium-small cranial width of XXX mm and a large cheek width of XXX mm. The idea of a distinct Sub-Ural population stratum emerging in deep antiquity was developed on the basis of Early Neolithic skulls recovered from burials near the villages of"
X Link 2025-12-06T08:49Z 24.3K followers, 48.2K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 10000-year-old man from Iran Found at Ganj Dareh Tepe a Neolithic site with some of the earliest evidence of goat domestication in the world. The individuals from Ganj Dareh belong to the Iran_N genetic cluster and most carry Y-DNA haplogroup R2 which is associated with the dispersal of Ancient North Eurasian ancestry. This young adult was described by anthropologist Peter Lambert as follows: This individual is the third of the sarcophagus burial group and is complete except for several vertebrae and portions of the skull and pelvis. The mandible and both maxillae"
X Link 2025-12-09T09:51Z 24.3K followers, 122.5K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of an Eneolithic man from Ginchi Dagestan. The man exhibited artificial cranial deformation the result of intentional head binding - a practice widespread in the Eneolithic Caucasus and already well established in the Neolithic Middle East. The Neolithic and Eneolithic populations of the eastern Caucasus were largely of Upper Mesopotamian descent which may explain the adoption of this custom. The tradition of skull binding in Dagestan and South Caucasus is speculated to have been a source and diffusion point for the same practice later observed among the Indo-European"
X Link 2025-09-30T16:01Z 24.3K followers, 31K engagements
"Facial reconstruction of a 3750-year-old acromegalic Aryan smith from Chelyabinsk He belonged to the proto-Indo-Iranian Sintashta culture which traces its origins farther to the west in Europe. In the late 1970s archaeologists discovered a fortified settlement of the Sintashta people in the Troitsk district of the Chelyabinsk region which was named Chernorechye-III. A few years later not far from it researchers also identified the ancient cemetery of Krivoe Ozero where its inhabitants may have been buried. In the third grave of barrow number ten archaeologists found the skeleton of an adult"
X Link 2025-12-10T15:41Z 24.3K followers, 30.3K engagements