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This is devolving into a silly 'no, you need to prove your claim, not me!' back and forth. FWIW, I'm definitely not a scholar in this field, but I'd like a pla
by smallnamespace 7y ago
This is devolving into a silly 'no, you need to prove your claim, not me!' back and forth.
FWIW, I'm definitely not a scholar in this field, but I'd like a plausible hypothesis for the extinction of entire Y haplotype lineages without the elimination of maternal lineages through just 'cultural diffusion'. Slavery and genocide seem like much more likely, simple explanations.
I've been reading Herodotus's Histories and he makes it pretty clear that mass enslavement of conquered populations was not exactly rare. What do you imagine happens to enslaved men and women?