With regard to the Presentation of world history I will be putting up on a web site but mentioned herein: I do indeed have to wrestle with my 'subjectivity' on the thesis I present, but this does not mean that EVERY history is non-factual. the thesis is speculative inasmuch as I can only surmise that the residents of Scythia had expulsions due to overpopulation and warring faction, but it is not un-provable by physical evidence. the beauty of my findings so far is that the relationship between the migration of DNA specific grains and plants, and the route of the Scythians. DNA is pretty objective. Anyhow as to the further information I said I'd provide, these are some of my tentative findings: 1.)glaciation led many pre-historic people to two large caves located in the area of the Black Sea and Caucus mountains, termed the Belt and Hotu; 2.) These locations afforded them access to tin and other ores which they found could be ‘fired’; 3.) They were then able to follow grazing herds which traveled along the receding frost line and become quite successful hunters; 4.) This was combined with the fashioning of superior tools for agricultural development, one being later named the, ‘Scythe’. These people also were able to domesticate herd animals and put them to work by fashioning the predecessor of the horse-bit. With these implements of controlled agriculture, the animals were thus led to human control, eliminating the need to roam in search of food stuffs; 5.) Having then introduced a degree of leisure into the culture they were able to apply themselves to other higher level abstractions less fortunate peoples could not. When they combined the wheel with the bit and horse, placed a rider upon a carriage it created the greatest technological breakthrough the hemisphere had ever seen. Riding upon the chariot, was a warrior who was armed with metal weapons. Put together a herd of such contraptions and you have a marauding horde able to swoop down on neighboring cultures and put them to the sword, or render them servants; 6.) Now armed and equipped with food-stores in the midst of a receding ice age, you have the most advanced civilization in the world; 7.)With such advanced culture however comes the increase in population, thus necessitating expulsion of failed coup leaders and rebellious subjects. These then carried with them the knowledge or at least concepts of technology to other lands. “Beautiful story”, you might say, “and entertainingly logical in its simplicity, but how the heck do you find what others in the field did not? In the end its’ just an idea and you can’t prove it.” I felt this way as well, and spent not a few hours pondering how to ‘prove’ such a thesis. Then one day, a Jewish friend of mine, who creates gourmet meals when I visit, despite his stipend-type cost of living, told me of the history of the olive as he cooked and where it actually originated and it stopped me cold. I asked him to show me his source for this bit of trivia and he produced a spice index -card he kept by his stove. I read it and it all clicked for me, it was self-evident . After recovering from the epiphany and hearing him ask me what I was thinking, I said, “horse-s--t”. “What?” “Horse shit Dan! the proof is in the horse s--t!” I tore through his index, reading over every spice history he had and it was a gold-mine indeed. You see what I had found was that if my thesis was correct there had to be physical, historical evidence to support the claim – and it was in the horse dung. As the Scythians swept across the steppeland, a vast area located in South Western and Central Asia, they took food for the horses from the locale. As the horses evacuated, they left seeds of the wheat which originated in that area. An investigation of the olive, cannabis, and even the grape showed origins in that area. With this physical evidence, as contained in the DNA of each plant, one can map out the spread of the various strains throughout the earth and when they occurred. For example, Bacchus was amongst the oldest and most celebrated Gods of the ancient Greek empire. But if the grape did not originate there, then there had to be some contact with the grain elsewhere. “A-Ha, you may say, but the wind could do this as well.” Hardly, because it travels across several temperate ‘hardiness’ zones to get there and so had to be adapted en masse to be plentiful enough for the wine presses. Not only that, but a study of the history of the horse mouth-bit and even the wearing of pants also indicates the presence of this culture in other lands. As I followed it, I began to see a relation between the ancient Hyksos culture, then the Hittite, and were I to go on, even the founding of the Jewish people in Caanan, under General Abraham, who broke off from the raid on Egypt to found his own empire ( I believe each of these were results of expulsions from Scythia). It was these people, under Abraham, and those who raided with their horse drawn armies, who led me to Egypt and the construction of the pyramids at Giza. This isn’t enough though because there is extensive scholarship on the subject of the pyramids and one doesn’t just walk in with no credential or even understanding of hieroglyphics and say the Scythians came up with the idea of pyramids. Dare me. The wave of the truth of the matter came when, approximately three years ago, there was found the oldest known mummy on earth, and guess where it was found, Yep, it was in the steppe where the Scythians originated; dated about 200 years before the first mummy in Egypt. Not only that, but the mummy was a blond haired woman. This is a royal shock to the, “Aryans” who hold they are European by origin, because it shows they are, Caucasian true enough, but from the Asian side of the mountains not the european side. This makes them part Chinese, almost Mongolian given the location of the mummy. As I said the DNA is the prover of it all. My research on the Scythians is a study of almost all European culture. The Goth, Visigoth, Ostrogoth, Spanish, Danes all have origin and/or relation to Scythian conquests in ancient times given their superior weaponry. Indeed a study of Scottish history tells you they claim they are, “Scythian”. Spirit is a trip my man, and when Spirit talks you better listen; it blows me away to this day. “Now how can the Scythians get to Scotland from the Black Sea?” This was the extent of relevant information on this subject I sent a gentleman recently, which I have excerpted and placed here for your review and critique. Please feel free to send me any comments, refutations, contributions, etc. you have or e-mail me at: wahkonta@graffiti.net. Thanks for the read and stay tuned as this story develops.