In the 21st century, science has undergone great development and progress, and scientists have speculated that the origin of human beings came from Africa, and the life of the earth may come from the ocean. However, there are still a lot of unsolved mysteries in this world, and even the genetics related to humans themselves still have a lot of unknowns. With today's article, we'll take a look at 7 peoples whose mysteries exist that confuse scientists.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" >1, Berbers</h1>
There is one people in North Africa covering the territory of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, and they are berbers. Although it is African, don't think of them as black. Many people in this ethnic group have fair skin and blue eyes. This intrigued scientists, who wanted to know how these races appeared on the African continent. One study found that Berbers were of European descent and that their early settlers were genetically identical to the first settlers in Ireland. This may indicate that the two peoples came from the same ancestor.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" >2, Tatars</h1>
The Cumans, Pecheni, Khazars, and now the Mongols were once considered ancestors of the Tatars, but studies of Tatar genes have never confirmed this. Incredibly, from the analysis of DNA, the Tatars themselves appear to have come from multiple ethnic groups, as it was found that the origins of the populations in the different regions where the Tatars lived were found to be different. For example, the Tatars of the Volga region have Ugol-Finnish ancestry, while the Siberian Tatars are relatives of the Caucasians and the northernmost people of Russia.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" >3, Icelanders</h1>
The origins of the Icelanders are generally thought to be related to the Vikings. Because in the 9th century, the Vikings of Norway lived here. In addition, the island has close relations with Denmark. It turns out that Icelanders are Scandinavians, and many scientific studies confirm this, pointing out that the ancestors of Icelanders included the inhabitants of Ireland and Scotland. However, according to the research of Spanish and Icelandic scientists, the ancestors of Icelanders also included Indians. Genetic analysis of about 80 people from four families in Iceland showed they possess a type of DNA that is usually found only in Native Americans or East Asians, according to the Spanish Institute of CSIC Science. But when studying family genealogies, it was found that the ancestors of the four families came from ancestors who lived in the same region of southern Iceland between 1710 and 1740. It can therefore be assumed that more than a thousand years ago, the first to come to Europe from the Americas was a female Indian, and it was brought back by the Vikings.
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The Gagauz inhabit a Turkic ethnic group in the Balkans, the very center of the European continent, and scientists cannot explain how they got there. Some researchers believe that their ancestors were Seljuk Turks or Bulgarians. However, the genetics of this human race is not clear. Because some studies show its Balkan origins, while others indicate its Turkic origins.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" >5, Armenians</h1>
Armenia is considered to be one of the oldest surviving peoples, and in general theories, this people was formed in the Armenian plateau region in the 13th and 6th centuries BC, and their ancestors included the Uratu, Hurian and Luvita peoples. But there is another theory that armenian origins are related to Greece and Indochina. This could mean that there was an Armenian-Greek-Indochinese-Iranian community a long time ago. Proponents of this theory argue that the Armenian plateau is the birthplace of the Proto-Indo-European language family, where most modern European languages or India and its surroundings originate.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" >6, British</h1>
Often, the British believed their origins came from the Celts, Vikings, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, and Normans. But there was originally an ethnic group on the British Isles that inhabited it, and medical geneticist Stephen Oppenheimer proposed the theory that the ancestors of the British came here from what is now Spanish territory more than 16,000 years ago and initially spoke a language similar to Basque. Among all the inhabitants of the island, the results of genetic studies show that the genotypes of English, Welsh, Scots and Irish are almost identical.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="14" >7, Guanchesi people</h1>
The Guanches are indigenous to Tenerife. It is said that the authentic village of this ethnic group disappeared due to the integration with other Hispanic peoples at the end of the 15th century. According to studies, the most pure Guanches had blue or gray eyes, brown or red hair, and lighter skin. Scientists even consider this nation to be descendants of the Berbers. The problem was that the Canary Islands were about 100 kilometres off the coast of North Africa, and the Guanches did not have a good command of navigation. Therefore, it is difficult to explain how they got there.