Once Again About the Ancestors of Today’s Poles - A Current View of the Problem Volume 8 - Issue 2

Wojciech J Cynarski*

• Committee of Scientific Research, Idokan Poland Association, Rzeszów, Poland

Received:April 17, 2023;   Published: April 25, 2023

Corresponding author:Committee of Scientific Research, Idokan Poland Association, Rzeszów, Poland

DOI: 10.32474/JAAS.2023.08.000281

 

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The work is about Indo-Europeans in general, that means people possessing R1a haplogroup (and following mutations) of Y-DNA, as per inheriting from father to son. Our interest is in the group of Indo-Europeans who evolved into Slavs and, in particular, modern Poles. The article shows that the area of today’s Poland was probably the cradle of people and language that gave origin to other Indo-European peoples (Aryans, Scythians, and Slavic) and their languages. Today’s Poles are the nation with the highest frequency of R1a haplogroup in Europe. Genetic, and also other (linguistic and anthropological-cultural) studies indicate that the origin of Poles is ancient, directly from the ancestors of the Lechites or Lekhs described in the chronicles. There are also grounds for claiming that the Lekhs’ connections with people from Aryans are both genetic / biological and cultural (a logical proof). The author provides daring hypotheses and proceeds to check them through logical deduction (inductive-deductive method), while trying the synthetic approach to the problem and using a multidisciplinary approach. Hypotheses checks and logical justifications are backed by research results in new research – in genetics and archaeogenetics, particularly.

Keywords:Indo-European; Aryan; Scyth; Slavic; Pole; hg R1a

Abstract| Introduction| The Roots of the R1a1a Family| New Genetic Studies Outcomes| Some Other Justifications| Discussion| Conclusion| References|