Also it would have to be paired with fact that the specimen almost exclusively associated with Y DNA R1a1 from South Siberia and Kazakhstan had almost exclusively mtDNA haplogroups of west eurasian european origin especially during bronze age as far as 1 800 BC If we link that with the europoid phenotypes with light colored eyes and hair and pale skin of andronovo south siberians described in the recent article of human genetics that s meaningful and favors an European origin of these R1a1 Especially since no south Asian haplogroups are linked to the spread of R1a1 up to Europe Pretty meaningful especially since such phenotypes are found where high frequency of R1a1 are found in Asia like Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan east Afghanistan and north Pakistan examples of such clearly europoid phenotypes in these regions of Asia that matches the description of south Siberian of Bronze age andronovo culture horizon here Sounds important to me Unravelling migrations in the steppe mitochondrial DNA sequences from ancient central Asians 82 241 221 24 calabasas