Longshan Giants

They belonged to Yamnaya-people, the original dairy-supremacists

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Confucius was from the same province those bodies were discovered in, and Chinese sources claim he was over seven feet tall

>Yamnaya
>lactase persistence

user, you're incorrect. Their mounted descendants certainly were though.

Elaborate? Family Tree DNA (which is affiliated with National Geographic) agrees:

>By the Bronze Age, the Y-chromosome haplogroup R1b was quickly gaining dominance in Western Europe (as we see today) with high frequencies of individuals belonging to the M269 subclade. Ancient DNA evidence supports the hypothesis that the R1b was introduced into mainland Europe by the Bronze Age invaders coming from the Black Sea region. Further DNA evidence suggests that a lactose tolerance originated from the Yamnaya or another closely tied steppe group. Current day populations in Northern Europe typically show a higher frequency of relatedness to Yamnaya populations, as well as earlier populations of Western European Hunter-Gatherer societies.

But Northern Europe is predominantly I-haplogroup, which is from the Siberian refugium.

And their ancestors were dark-skinned and lactose intolerant before they got STEPPE'd, so it checks out.

No, it's the Yamna who were swarthy, the Siberian refugium is where pale skin and hair comes from.

They weren't lactose persistent. Parental haplotype is almost irrelevant here.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamna_culture#Physical_characteristics
>Despite their pastoral lifestyle, there was little evidence of lactase persistence.[25]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans#Yamna_culture
>the Yamnaya-people were the result of admixture between two different hunter-gatherer populations: distinctive "Eastern European hunter-gatherers" with high affinity to the Mal'ta-Buret' culture or other, closely related Ancient North Eurasian(ANE) people from Siberia[21] and to Western Hunter Gatherers(WHG) and a population of "Caucasus hunter-gatherers" who probably arrived from somewhere in the Near East, probably the Caucasus or Iran.[22][web 1] Each of those two populations contributed about half the Yamnaya DNA.[23][web 1]

Indo-Europeans were undoubtedly lactase persistent. Proto-Indo-Europeans can't claim as much.

>it's the Yamna who were swarthy
wrong.
>they were genetically tall (phenotypic height is determined by both genetics and environmental factors), overwhelmingly dark-eyed (brown), dark-haired and had a skin colour that was moderately light, though somewhat darker than that of the average modern European.
>somewhat darker than that of the average modern European

That's 5000 BC too, so to call them swarthy is kind of missing the point.

Diet?

Glacial Maximum. Jesus Christ.

Probably chinks. There haven't been many aDNA studies of East Asia yet so we'll have to wait and see

Not actually giants and probably the ancestors of the current people on the Shandong peninsula.

My father, my grandfather, and I are all around 1.8 meters tall (I'm on the shorter end; my dad blames it on marrying someone from Hunan), and the patrilineal descent of the family's been in the Shandong for as long as it can remember.

Is Shandong just like the rest of China aside from genes? They don't eat a different diet or hang upside down for fun?

Genetic discontinuity perhaps

nature.com/nature/journal/v534/n7606/full/nature17993.html

I is not from Siberia, R is.
It's closely related to Q which is frequent in Native Americans.

I however is related to J and basal J is found in Socotra island off the coast of Yemen.
IJ seems very West Asian.

Yao Ming's ancestors

Yep, living in Shandong and the people are tall here, for Chinese standards at least. But one has to ignore the coastal areas.