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Source: "Illustration of every day life in the El Portalon cave during the Neolithic and Copper Age"
The Official name of the Paper is: Günther et al. (2015) Ancient genomes link early farmers from Atapuerca in Spain to modern-day Basques, PNAS.
It has not been published yet but will be soon here at PNAS. Here's a list of articles discussing the upcoming paper: Article#1, Article#2, Article#2, Article#3.
Summary of information given by the Articles: 8 genomes ranging 5,500-3,500 years old from the El Portalón in Northern Spain were sampled. Of modern day Iberians they most closely resemble Basque. Other Iberians have ancestry from outside of Iberia that Basque lack(IMO, not completely). The El Portalón individuals had Lighter skin and darker eyes than Mesolithic Europeans and were lactose intolerant.
EDIT: Nature article with new Info LINK: It says non-Basque Iberians have 10-25% ancestry from new people who arrived in Iberia after the Neolithic and Basque and El Portalon genomes have 0%.
Of Ancient genomes Basque are closest to El Portalon. What this may mean is they're direct ancestors/close relatives of Basque not just generic EEF.
Also, 4/8 of the El Portalon genomes are Male. This means we'll get Y DNA. I hope we get Y DNA ranging each era. If R1b-L11 pops up with no ANE that'll debunk a Steppe origin for that lineage, if it doesn't and there's no ANE, that'll support a Steppe origin of R1b-L11.
Also from another Article LINK: Quote from one of the authors: It doesn't make sense because Basque have ANE ancestry, the could not have been isolated for 5,000 years.
“Even though they clearly share common ancestry with early European farmers, we can see now that they have been rather isolated, genetically speaking, for at least the last 5,000 years,” says Jakobsson.
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