Hello Fire-Haired14,
Would you be able to help me? 23andme has told me that I am mtdna K2 but they cannot assign a subclade.
That'd weird. I'm pretty sure all K2a or K2b. K2 is one of only three mHG K subclades. mHG K formed roughly 30,000 years ago and its daughters all formed more than 20,000 years ago. mHG K likely made its biggest expansions somewhere in Southeast Europe and or Western Asia 10,000-15,000 years ago. From mHG K's unknown homeland it moved into Europe and many parts of Asia during the Neolithic (8,000 years ago). Neolithic farmers from Anatolia gave Europe many forms of K, mostly under K1a but some under K2. K2a has been found in several early Neolithic farmers in Central/East Europe dating 7,000 years old.
The oldest examples of mHG K from ancient mtDNA.
K3. Geogria, 13,300 years old.
K1*. Greece, 10,000 years old.
K1*, K1c, K1a, K1d, Serbia/Romania, 8,000-10,000 years old.
K1a4b, Jordan, 10,000 years old.
K1b, K1c, K1a, K2a Turkey/Europe 8,000 years old.
Good morning, I did the test with Living dna and my MTdna came out that is H13a1a.
You can tell me something more about it. Where is this group coming from ... thanks
H13a1a is mostly found in Europe but also be found sporadically in some parts of the Middle East. Roughly 1-3% of people in Europe belong to H13a1a and almost entirely to the H13a1a1 subclade. H13a1a and H13a1a1 emerged "recently", about 8,000 years ago. H13a1a's has many relatives in Iran, Caucasus, and SC Asia: H13c, H13a2, and H13b. The oldest examples of H13a1a in ancient DNA come from Yamnaya and Bell Beaker. It seems pretty likely that H13a1a originated in "Steppe" people of Bronze age Russia and quickly moved into the rest of Europe roughly 4,300 years ago. H13a1a's ancestors likely originated in the Near Eastern "CHG" ancestors of "Steppe."