North China and South Siberia, populated by Altaic- Sino-Tibetan-speaking populations, possess extensive ethnolinguistic diversity serve as the crossroads for initial peopling of America western–eastern transcontinental communication. However, population genetic structure admixture history northern East Asians remain poorly understood due to a lack genome-wide data, especially Mongolic-speaking...

emergence of new geopolitical affairs in the important and sensitive places of the world, like the middle east, balkan, central asia (caucasus zone) and… has caused emergence of a new trend of so called cold war with variables like the expansion of nato to the east, the u.s. missile defense shield, georgia’s events, the prevalent problems of the middle east, those of pakistan and afghanistan, o...

16 species of Lithosiini and 25 Arctiini (Erebidae: Arctiinae) are recorded from Daghestan, North-East Caucasus. Nine one (Katha depressa (Esper, 1787), Manulea pygmaeola (Doubleday, 1848), M. lurideola (Zincken, 1817.), Cybosia mesomella (Linnaeus, 1758), Eilema caniolum (Hübner, [1808]), Atolmis rubricollis Pelosia muscerda (Hufnagel, 1766), Setina roscida ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)...

East Asia encompasses a wide variety of environments, peoples, cultures and languages. Although this review focuses on East Asia, no geographic region can be considered in isolation in terms of human population history, and migrations to and from East Asia have had a major impact. Here, we review the following topics: the initial colonization of East Asia, the direction of migrations between so...

The trickster figure is a common cultural feature globally. A not-so-pious Muslim cleric, with foolish deeds and clever sayings, Nasreddin (Nasreddin Hoca in Turkish, Molla Farsi, Joha Arabic) has been the most popular folk character Middle East for centuries. Nasreddin: Making of Modern Trickster (1906-1911) investigates how cartoon journal South Caucasus, Nasreddin, reproduced as medium socia...