what about the central Anatolian samples - Boncuklu and Tepecik Ciftlik - anything known about their pigmentation?
In Kilinc et al: "The Demographic Development of the First Farmers in Anatolia", which presented the Tepecek and Boncuklu samples, I couldn’t find any phenotypic data.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5069350/
I looked in genetiker for Tepecik and Boncuklu, and couldn't find anything but snp calls*. If you're so interested in pigmentation you'd think he'd look at all the Anatolian Neolithic samples as well.
Hofmanova did give some pigmentation information:
"Sequences in and around genes underlying the phenotypes hypothesized to have undergone positive selection in Europeans indicate that the Neolithic Aegeans were unlikely to have been lactase persistent but carried derived
SLC24A5 rs1426654 and
SLC45A2 rs16891982 alleles associated with reduced skin pigmentation. Because our Aegean samples predate the period when the rs4988235 T-allele associated with lactase persistence in Eurasia reached an appreciable frequency in Europe, around 4 kya (
12⇓–
14), and because this allele remains at relatively low frequencies (<0.15) in modern Greek, Turkish, and Sardinian populations (
15), this observation is unsurprising. However, despite their relatively low latitude, four of the Aegean individuals are homozygous for the derived rs1426654 T-allele in the
SLC24A5 gene, and four carry at least one copy of the derived rs16891982 G-allele in the
SLC45A2 gene. This suggests that these reduced-pigmentation–associated alleles were at appreciable frequency in Neolithic Aegeans and that skin depigmentation was not solely a high-latitude phenomenon (
SI Appendix, SI12. Functional Markers). The derived rs12913832 G-allele in the
HERC2 domain of the
OCA2 gene was heterozygous in one individual (Klei10), but all other Aegeans for whom the allelic state at this locus could be determined were homozygous for the ancestral allele, indicating a lack of iris depigmentation in these individuals.
http://www.pnas.org/content/113/25/6886
From the Supplement:
Rev5, Klei10, Bar8, and Bar 31 were all observed to carry homozygous derived alleles at SLC24A5 rs1426654 (A111T)
"Derived alleles of the SLC45A2 rs16891982 L374F mutation, also associated with skin depigmentation and identified as under selection in modern and ancient Europeans [157, 159], were observed in the Klei10, Pal7, Bar31, and Bar8 individuals"
These people were fair skinned if modern European pigmentation is any guide.
"The Klei10 individual appears to have been heterozygous for the derived allele at HERC2 rs12913832, a mutation associated with iris depigmentation and having evidence for differential selection at different points in prehistory [130, 159].Qualified support for the presence of a derived allele in the Klei10 individual comes from the observation of a derived allele at rs1129038 which is almost completely linked with the causal rs12913832 SNP in modern populations [162]. However, conclusive haplotype determinations for the 13-SNP OCA2-HERC2 profile found in almost all modern blue-eyed individuals could not be made for the ancient Aegean individuals [163] (see Table S31)"
http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2016/06/02/1523951113.DCSupplemental/pnas.1523951113.sapp.pdf
Ed.*Genetiker did snp calls only for y Dna for these samples. Makes no sense not to look at pigmentation for Near Eastern farmer samples if you're going to do it for European ones.