Does the principal R1a section of the Ashkenazi Levite population descend paternally from the collapse of Corded Ware society in East Central Europe circa 2,350 BC?
Some related Middle Eastern R1a sections and some eastern subclades of other haplogroups like I2a-A427 and R1b-U152 also look to have branched off from their main populations in East/Central Europe in a similar direction at around the same time.
Within the next several hundred years, we find Indo-European influences appearing around the Caspian, Eastern Turkey, Iraq, Arabia and Egypt.
If so, it is curious that this yDNA struggled to survive amidst haplogroups J and E in the Middle East and only really seemed to begin sustainably flourishing again when it turned full circle and re-emerged in its East Central European point of origin.
Some related Middle Eastern R1a sections and some eastern subclades of other haplogroups like I2a-A427 and R1b-U152 also look to have branched off from their main populations in East/Central Europe in a similar direction at around the same time.
Within the next several hundred years, we find Indo-European influences appearing around the Caspian, Eastern Turkey, Iraq, Arabia and Egypt.
If so, it is curious that this yDNA struggled to survive amidst haplogroups J and E in the Middle East and only really seemed to begin sustainably flourishing again when it turned full circle and re-emerged in its East Central European point of origin.