Tomenable
Elite member
- Messages
- 5,419
- Reaction score
- 1,337
- Points
- 113
- Location
- Poland
- Ethnic group
- Polish
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- R1b-L617
- mtDNA haplogroup
- W6a
Crimea was one of those places where human habitation continued throughout the LGM.
But who lived there during the LGM, and who expanded out of Crimea after the LGM ended ???
Which haplogroups and which autosomal signatures did they carry (by the end of the LGM)?
I think, that one of good fits for the Crimean Ice Age Refuge, are the CHG (or "Teal people" by their old name).
Georgia - where CHG genomes have been found - was uninhabited during the LGM, so they couldn't be there at that time. Kotias and Satsurblia - who carried CHG auDNA - are genomes of people, who settled in Western Georgia only after the end of the LGM.
IMO they came to Georgia shortly after the LGM either from Crimea, or from Northern Iran.
Any thoughts ???
But who lived there during the LGM, and who expanded out of Crimea after the LGM ended ???
Which haplogroups and which autosomal signatures did they carry (by the end of the LGM)?
I think, that one of good fits for the Crimean Ice Age Refuge, are the CHG (or "Teal people" by their old name).
Georgia - where CHG genomes have been found - was uninhabited during the LGM, so they couldn't be there at that time. Kotias and Satsurblia - who carried CHG auDNA - are genomes of people, who settled in Western Georgia only after the end of the LGM.
IMO they came to Georgia shortly after the LGM either from Crimea, or from Northern Iran.
Any thoughts ???