Abstract:

For almost two hundred years there has been an ongoing debate among scholars about whether the Xiongnu’s, descended into the Ordos Valley in North China around BCE 315 for the first time, were the same people with the Huns of Attila, who were known to be near the Kuban River around CE 374. Written records, archeological and anthropological data have also not proven until today that the Huns, who entered in the stage of the history in the Pontic steppes around CE 374, were actually the continuation of the Xiongnu migrated to west after not able to cling to the Northeast Asia. In addition, anthropological and archaeological records point to the Xiongnu-Mongollineage too. The aim of this study is to provide a new perspective on this issue with regards to the written records and new genetic data.