Alan
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The paper says that mixing of Caucasus HGs with some Near Easterners (ancestors of ENF ?) ended 25,000 years ago. They mixed with ancestors of ENF long before those people became farmers (25,000 years ago there was no farming anywhere in the world). Since 25,000 years ago they were isolated from outside admixtures for the next 15,000 years, until 10,000 years ago (8,000 BC).
I haven't read all of it yet, but AFAIK it doesn't say anything about Caucasus HGs merging with incoming ENF groups.
It says that they mixed with some "Pre-ENF" groups more than 25,000 years ago - i.e. before those groups became ENF.
How can we call someone who lived 25,000 years ago "Early Neolithic Farmers"? No farmers existed back then.
Ah ok I missed that part, so it is the same source as EEF . The only difference as I said in my early posts seems to be a simple ANE "admixture" (Now it looks like it isn't really admixture but ANE like drift) from a Caucasus (I still believe this Caucasus H&G are actually arrivals from the Iranian Plateau) H&G.