The population of the Huns was ethnically and genetically diverse. This was reported by TASS with reference to the Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
The Huns are a nomadic pastoral people who lived in Central Asia from at least the 3rd century BC, before coming to Europe in the 4th century. These tribes were constantly at war with the Chinese empires and were often very warlike, almost all adult Huns knew how to ride horses, and many knew how to shoot from a bow.
A team of scientists led by Jeon Chungwon sequenced the Huns’ fossil DNA to find out their ethnicity. The analysis was based on the biomaterial of two dozen representatives of the elite buried in the territory of modern Western Mongolia. It turns out that the Hun nobles are distinguished by a high level of genetic diversity, which indicates frequent inter-ethnic and inter-ethnic marriages between different groups of aristocracy, including within the same family. As the researchers suggest, the impetus in these processes may have been played by women whose burials in Takhiltyn-Khotgor and Shombuuzin-Belchir were wealthier than men. They also found numerous power attributes.
From this it follows that the situation of the Huns was similar to that of the later Mongol empire, although there was no continuity or direct connection between them. Most likely, the similarity is associated with the general principles of the structure of nomadic paramilitary societies.
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Source: Gazeta
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