@dna.uncovered on Instagram: "Most people think blonde hair and blue eyes came to Europe with the Yamnaya Indo-Europeans. ❌ That’s not true. This reconstruction shows a couple from the Globular Amphora culture — and they already carried those traits before the steppe migrations. 👇 Here’s what most people don’t realize. 🗺️ WHO WERE THE GLOBULAR AMPHORA PEOPLE? They lived in Central and Eastern Europe, including: • Modern Poland • Ukraine • Belarus • Parts of Germany and the Baltics They were Eu

@dna.uncovered on Instagram: "Facial reconstruction of a possible Hattic, Kaskian, or Palaic man from İkiztepe, West Pontus 🗿 Dated to c. 2300–1700 BC, this individual comes from a region tied to Zalpuwa, a city frequently mentioned in Hittite texts. Zalpuwa was located along the Kaskian borderlands, functioning as a frontier zone between the Hittite state and the non–Indo-European peoples of northern Anatolia. This area was culturally and ethnically complex, shaped by interaction, conflict, an