Music on this page "Moon Jupiter" written and performed entirely by ARCHURESANDAWE SINGING MP3 at bottom of page
ARCHURE's DNA
National Geographic online has a "Genographic" project at www.nationalgeographic.com/genographic. I paid $107 (online), got the "DNA Sampling Kit" by mail, scraped a skin sample from my inner cheek (like a tooth brush), sent in the samples, and got the results, this map comes along with a 2 page (and 4 lines on a 3rd page) explanation of my DNA, plus a DVD about the whole thing. By the way, its not a Paternity Test.
RESULTS / SUMMATION:
MUTANTS:
Summation of the 2 page of RESULTS provided by National Geographic:
Every so many thousands of years, genetic mutations take place, enabling scientists to look at a persons DNA and determine what DNA types or mutations your ancestors came from (with approximate locations and years ago).
MY DNA INCLUDES:
M168 (DNA slang) people of Africa 79,000 years ago (the Original people from whom all other people were born, the theoretical Adam and Eve, thus everyone's DNA includes M168; these original people, still exist today, the "Sandawe" of Africa, more at bottom of page ).
M89 group of people left Africa behind (40K years ago, they had a Genetic Mutation)
Then my M9 (DNA mutation) ancestry went East (another genetic mutation).
Then M45 branched north thru the Russia/China border (north of India)
and (35K-40K years ago) M45 was the ancestry of most Native Americans and most Europeans.
Then they went west as the M173 group (East Europe and moved northward)
Then M343 went into west Europe, and became Cro Magnon / modern man (as the Genographic Project puts it).
EXPECTATIONS:
Uh-Duh. This is what I paid $107 for? God Help Me. I WAS EXPECTING: PERHAPS SOMETHING MORE. I was hoping to find all sorts of mixed up ancestry, and something more than "Cro Magnon" but that was basically the wrap up, Cro-Magnon". They only tell you your genetic make up for your Fathers, Fathers, Fathers, Father..... (for a woman, her mothers, mothers, mothers, mother.... (I believe)). So no trace of my Native American ancestry, etc, as I was hoping to find.
I THOUGHT PERHAPS?
• M173 might be my Russian ancestry? (my grandparents on my moms side escaped from Russia during the 1917 Russian Revolution)
• M45 might be traces of my Native American ancestry (I heard rumored about from my family)
But NO, they don't go into everything, only your fathers, fathers, father.... thus I am the same kind of people (M343) as 90% of Ireland, 70% of England (more in Southern England), France and Spain (etc). No trace of anything else.
I don't know how this DNA thing works (and will research more and get back to update this page), but sending in $107 just to find you are Cro-Magnon and White? (imagine how Black people feel, when they pay $107 and find out they are Black? (never left Africa till recently, aka the past 500 years), how Asians feel when they paid $107 to find out they are Asian?). And lucky Native Americans have 2 types of DNA (first and second wave, or new wave).
So I am No trace of anything else, just White, Cro-Magnon
(And obviously all other DNA types are Cro-Magnon)
But its all very interesting, and the results also came with a CHART of Various code numbers with no explanation about that. I am assuming it is the rest of my genetic make up, which may or may not include various ancestors (which they don't go into), and only a Geneticist can begin to decipher, but that's just an assumption of what the list of code numbers might mean? They don't say what it is.
I BEG TO DIFFER / PART NEANDERTHAL?:
It does say on the Genographic printout, that M173 and M343 did mingle with Neanderthals, who went extinct; but there is now strong evidence that Neanderthals did get into the gene pool (extensive interbreeding in Portugal), are no longer considered a separate species, and did not go extinct (my article with .edu links at Neanderthal Song)
MY ANCESTRY AS I WAS TOLD:
I do know (as per relatives) that I am (on Moms side, her mom and dad): Russian (more about my Russian Royalty) (my grandparents left during the Revolution in 1917 when the Czar (aka King) was assisnated), and on my Father Side: I am either Virginian or West Virginian (English surname, with tales of Scottish, Irish, French, and Native American ancestry.
I GOT MY MOMS DNA DONE FOR HER BIRTHDAY
as I am male, and my DNA shows my fathers DNA, but I am half my mom at least, and my MOM is a genetic "HVone", which is found in small numbers in the UKRAINE (where Mom's Mom and Dad were from), but there are vast numbers of HVone in TURKEY (I am nearly half Turkish now, my mom did not see it that way, but my Godparents brought me a Turkish Hooka and a Fez from their travels when I was a kid, and some said I looked Turkish, but let me assure you, the Social energy of Turkey is quite different from the Ukraine, acording to mom, AND there are OTHER DNA types in Turkey), ALSO HVone is found in Eastern Ethiopia, left over from the Arabic Slave Trade. My ancestors were Slavic, or Slav, which comes from Slave. The Eastern Orthodox has strong roots in Greece and Russia, at the Russian Orthodox Churches I have seen quite a few Afro Americans (who are quite possible the same HVone DNA, things like DNA are more permanant, while skin tone can apparantly darken after a number of generations living in areas of (I think it was Iron Ore? in one of my college classes). Looking up Slavery at Wikipedia, in earlier history, slavery was common, and usually associated with Country People (from the sticks), moving to the Big City, where they were absorbed as Slaves. Some people used to think my mom looked perhaps Iranian (which was always a shocker to her, but various people said that, not-connected).
So perhaps I look like I am Half English and Half Slavic. Some people have insisted that I look Dutch or Northern European. There are probably many M343 DNA persons who have migrated from England, Irland, Spain, and France (along the west coast of France), further along the northern coast of Europe. And as to my possible Neanderthal genes, I am guessing that they may have come thru my moms side (however, eveidence has been found, of interbreeding between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthals, in Portugal (close enough to M343 Territory). So maybe my Neanderthal genes came from both sides of the family (they were all around Europe, long ago). MORE ABOUT MY NEANDERTHAL GENES)
DVD WHICH CAME WITH NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC GENOGRAPHIC KIT
I finally got to view the DVD that came with the DNA kit (I don't own a DVD player). I was quite impressed with the video. They interviewed decedents of the Original genetic type, from which all other genetic types come from. These people still live in Africa (verbally, the name of the these people was pronounced "Sandawe". The National Geographic "Genographic" DVD said these people have a language which includes "Clicking" sounds. I have also learned thru the National Geographic Genographic web site, that a man can trace his fathers, fathers, fathers DNA, and a woman can trace her mothers, mothers, mothers DNA. I don't look anything like my fathers father (perhaps he really wasn't my fathers father? Stranger things have happened). I find this all very interesting, and am glad to get my DNA info, but it does not account for my moms side of the family, and as I said before, it does not include room for any possible mixtures with other types of DNA ancestry. I am just pure M343???
EVERYONES ANCESTORS, ORIGINAL GENETIC TYPE M168, STILL EXIST TODAY:
THE SANDAWE:
SANDAWE: The original people, who's genes have not mutated like everyone else's, and they still exist in Africa.
I searched under SANDAWE and MUSIC and found http://endor.hsutx.edu/~obiwan/profiles/sandawe.html
"Sandawe hold all-night dances to the music of drums in the moonlight. The Sandawe have a great musical and dance tradition, with beer-drinking at their celebrations. There are celebrations for each area of life, each with its own music: hunting, hoeing, circumcision, etc. Curing rituals have their own music. Their instruments are musical bows and a trough zither"The SADAWE language includes "Clicking Sounds" mp3 files http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Language/SAD/SAD.html
More on Sandawe Language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandawe_language
And from http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/RED_FEATHER/dramaholy/010dance.html we have "The Sandawe The gods of the Sandawe are activated by an erotic
dance, phek'umo, in which the act of love is mimicked in
embrace by the dancers. The Moon is seen to be part of the
cycle of fertility; in the cycle of months and in the menses
of women...so people dance by moonlight and adopt stances and
postures in the dance which represent the phases of the moon.
This dance embeds the necessity for human and earth fertility
in the body, mind, and spirit of the dancers as they work the
fields or the banana in Tanzania."
The SANDAWE are the original genetic types, surrounded by a world of MUTANTS (like you and me, unless you are a Sandawe too; your either a Sandawe or a Mutant).
Background Music on this page by ARCHURE (press F5 key to refresh page to get song going again)
SANDAWE SINGING MP3
I have locateda SANDAWE music (singing) MP3 240K CLICK HERE
But I am not certain as to the authenticity of the file being of Sandawe origin. I found in the net, when I was in a big hurry, downloaded it (.wav), and went back to get the other song and more info, but could not find it on the net. I think its Sadawe, but am not certain