Razib Khan posted on First April... some silly, but then this report which might not be a joke. He complained about the article's overcomplexity so he has done some good translating it into the sort of English a, er, Bengali would understand.
Last we looked at the Афанасьева matrix, it was Yamnaya or para-Yamnaya. Junggar was marked as solidly Yamnaya 3000-2800 BC and presumed Tocharian. Razib is saying, again, 3000-2500 BC is when Yamnaya mixed with the locals and created the Tocharians. Before 3000 BC said locals were Ancient-North-Eurasian Mal'ta Boys.
Where Афанасьева proper is postYamnaya or paraYamnaya, paraTocharian or preTocharian, doesn't seem to be answered here. Razib leans postYamnaya, preTocharian.
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