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Yes, but where the Tumulus culture had it's biggest effect there it enhanced the Yamna. And that's in the North Sea area. (And probably the sum gets higher in the areas around the North Sea which had already a CW influence, like North Dutch, North Germany, Denmark).
It's general accepted that the formation of the modern European was a at the end of the Bronze Age a fait accompli. And looking at the historical facts the dynamics at that time came from central Europe and not from the European fringe like Finland. There was not an strong expending Bronze age culture from Finland, at least I'am not familiar with it.
The central European Tumulus was in stead very expansive......it affected especially the North Sea area (Low Countries, NW Germany,Denmark, Norway, England, Scotland).
Look at this picture from Haak e.a. (2015):
Halberstadt_LBA urnfield (the heir of tumulus) had absolute the most Yamna affinity in the Bronze Age period. Not surprisingly nr 1 in my MDLP K11 ancient admixture.....
I think I didn't express myself very well. The proximity of Finland isn't significant due to cultural innovation emanating from the north-east. Rather, Finland is the very nucleus of Corded Ware ancestry. It's the absence of foreign influence that makes northern Fennoscandians the closest descendants of Corded Ware. The principal locale of the Nordic Bronze Age in present day Sweden is already relatively less like CW as compared to Norway.
The Halberstadt-Sonntagsfeld Iron Age individual is in all likelihood representative of the greater Central-North European plain. Case in point, he wasn't a warrior chief - he was originally assigned to the local LBK Neolithic stratum due to the relative poverty of grave goods.