Scandinavian match to Clovis?

I recently ran my DNA through the Ancient/Archaic samples on Gedmatch. At the default .5 cM level for that utility, I match to Clovis. I'm Scandinavian/Western Euro, most recently Danish and Dutch. How can this be?? Is this match likely reflecting common Eurasian ancestry before the Bering Strait crossing or something else?

Update - I match to Clovis up to 3 cM.

kirsten elise said:

Update - I match to Clovis up to 3 cM.

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My best guess is that Gedmatch is detecting your Hunnic Ancestry; the Huns came from a group of tribes from the Yennisian area most likely. The Yennisian tribes; like the Ket for example. Ydna Q1a has been also found in Mesolithic Eastern Europe. http://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_Q_Y-DNA.shtml#Scandinavian_Q1a

That is not out of the ordinary, I believe most North Europeans match up to 3cM.

Thank you Twilight! I've taken another look and the other archaic samples I match most closely to are also from the Danube River area so your best guess seems right on. I really appreciate your help. Looks like I have a new research interest

Thanks Promenade.

This is my dad's comparison to Clovis...

Minimum threshold size to be included in total = 200 SNPs
Mismatch-bunching Limit = 100 SNPs
Minimum segment cM to be included in total = 2.0 cM

Chr Start Location End Location Centimorgans (cM) SNPs
1 145,695,923 149,370,161 2.3 316
1 173,690,009 175,895,442 2.1 414
1 234,678,582 235,553,568 2.9 305
2 8,608,610 9,687,501 2.9 218
2 107,202,851 109,622,840 2.3 449
2 130,023,255 133,048,464 4.1 382
2 154,257,351 156,541,454 2.9 378
2 218,895,847 220,317,622 2.3 330
5 14,164,261 15,803,881 2.4 314
5 74,004,690 75,339,862 2.4 254
5 140,838,429 141,756,052 2.0 254
6 38,127,698 39,831,687 2.2 472
7 67,742,124 69,656,071 2.1 279
8 28,630,722 30,077,206 2.7 314
9 76,519,187 77,620,738 2.2 310
9 129,854,417 131,039,697 2.1 251
11 59,570,863 61,381,281 2.4 445
12 1,650,826 2,476,544 2.3 246
12 28,084,340 29,436,862 2.0 271
12 125,034,037 126,111,955 2.9 350
13 27,546,669 28,602,273 2.4 264
15 29,402,033 30,782,590 2.5 214
16 26,870,497 27,926,696 2.0 304
17 13,813,353 14,477,008 3.7 268
17 26,954,604 28,478,980 2.6 311
17 62,335,848 63,681,642 2.4 251
20 53,674,348 54,722,567 2.9 306
Largest segment = 4.1 cM
Total of segments > 2 cM = 67.9 cM
27 matching segments

Mom's (who I know has Scandinavian) comparison to Clovis
Minimum threshold size to be included in total = 200 SNPs
Mismatch-bunching Limit = 100 SNPs
Minimum segment cM to be included in total = 2.0 cM

Chr Start Location End Location Centimorgans (cM) SNPs
1 234,689,862 235,329,489 2.1 216
1 244,080,956 245,020,936 2.1 225
2 85,481,225 88,178,921 2.8 366
2 218,960,621 220,417,283 2.3 351
5 2,156,617 2,753,386 2.3 283
5 141,094,801 141,974,657 2.1 263
9 137,768,637 138,695,308 2.6 220
10 3,759,134 4,736,670 3.4 408
10 130,586,671 131,284,310 3.0 223
12 125,411,003 126,253,954 2.6 274
20 51,466,201 52,219,680 2.2 291
20 57,728,230 58,796,715 4.8 338
Largest segment = 4.8 cM
Total of segments > 2 cM = 32.4 cM
12 matching segments

View attachment 9703Clovis F999919 I was surprised by this. 4.5cms 729 snp's It's one of the largest matches I get on the ancient calcs. My recent ancestry is Lithianian, Polish maybe some German. There seems to be a lot of Finnish matches and a few Swedish on some sites but nothing that I can confirm yet. Any thoughts?