bicicleur 2
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Yeah, I don't necessarily disagree, sort of. There's no pots really until like 5000 BC, but the Red Deer Island cemetery looks similar to Kunda and Suomusjarvi cultures, and of course we now know the samples tested were EHG. They only tested 2 males, which happen to be EHG, other graves could show other admixture. Remember the Motala samples actually show some ANE, which is consistent with such a situation where we'd have long standing interactions between WHG and more ANE shifted EHG.
I understand you're saying that because the Karelia samples are EHG (R1a) and that Swiderian should be WHG (I1 or I2), and that because of this we can't relate Swiderian-> Suomusjarvi-Kunda to Dnieper-Donets, but I don't think we should be so sure of this. The cultures in the region were all very similar at this time and we see R1a EHG. This is what we know.
we only have a very little bit of Swiderian/Kunda mtDNA
I hope we'll get some Y/autosomal soon
as for the pots, I think they travelled from east to west, maybe along with some brides
that might explain the similarities
Motala was still I2, but it was not pure WHG any more, it had already some EHG admixture which shows influence coming from eastern Europe