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Whatever they sequenced there their conclusion is wrong or it is based entirely on Haplogroups. Mesopotamia is definitely from what I have seen more like Anatolia and the Iranian Plateau. Levant is a thing of it's own just like the Arabian Peninsula is.

The sequenced samples in this study are of royal background as far as I remember. yDNA can always be misleading even in modern Egypt there are like ~10% E1b1a. What this study basically shows and what most people without an Eurocentric or Afrocentric agenda should have known is. modern Egypt ~...

There is actually one SSA kinda yDNA in the pharoahs and it is E1b1a. But by now we should know how yDNA can be misleading. Contrary I expect that the Old Dynasty Egyptians will be even less SSA and more like Levant_Neo or Natufians. And with time Nubian admixture should have effected them. I...

I think there was a little misunderstanding here :). I never said Scythians and Sarmatians were almost exclusively light pigmented. What I meant was that even their light pigmented individuals would have looked like light pigmented modern Iranic groups. And yes, in comparison to, mesolithic and...

The thing is even though West Scythians are closest to Adygei, Lezgians etc they are still slightly more Northern shifted. Like Adygai or Lezgians with 1 Russian grandparent. The same with the Eastern Scythians even the most Eastern once from the Pazyryk culture might cluster "closest" with...

The Steppes was always like "winner takes all" so yDNA doesn't tell the whole story. You have cultures almost exclusively dominated by one single subbranch of an Haplogroup than you have in later periods suddenly more diversity and just few centuries later it's one homogenous bunch again. The...

tbh looking at the aDNA of Steppe Iranics who do have additional Iran_CHL_Neo DNA. I have a theory this somewhere else could be closer to the Caucasus, maybe even in the Caucasus or Northeast Iran/Central Asia. There were some users with the idea that R1a and R1b might turn up in Maykop or...

I disagree. the genetic signature we have found in real Indo_Iranians so far differ from CW in having little to none EEF. It looks more like CWC and Indo_Iranians might share one common ancestor in a prior culture.

We should also take into account that the light blue component in the graph is neither completely West nor East Eurasian. It seems they have modeled it after Bronze Age Altains or even modern Central Asians, this is why no proxy population for it is visible on the graph. It is extremely...

Remember my map? Remember my thread? a Few people were making fun of it, but who laughs the last now? http://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/30706-Europe-West-and-South_Central-Asia-and-the-unnatural-gap It is almost like if I had the ancient DNA at hand when I made this. I knew Sarmatians...

Didn't knew that already Gramkelidze, Ivanov and co were saying the same. But Sintashta looks like a dead end, maybe playing some role for modern Indo_Aryans culturally or they were related to Indo_Aryans since their costumes were similar going by the Veda. However the genetic signature of...

According to the study West Scythian ancestry is strongest in groups from the Caucasus, West Asia and some East Europeans. From their samples Azeris, Iranians, Adygei, Lezgians and some other group from Russia share most with the West Scythians. While East Scythians look most similar to Tajiks...

Note a Sarmatian sample turned out with yDNA R1b.

I have posted some comments about this on Eurogenes. I will copy-paste them here.

The Jewish R1a is a sub branch of a Near Eastern cluster specifically found in Kurdistan. It is in accordance of the Ashkenazi name that is most likely derived from Ashkan, the self designation of the Parthians.

FH EEF does not absorb WHG from my observation of past calculators, if some component absorbs another it is WHG that absorbs some of the WHG like ancestry in EEF. How can EEF absorb something it doesn't have? The point is WHG predates EEF so if you use EEF as a proxy component it will only take...

Friend you are giving Bride kidnapping too much credit and it doesn't work in the sense you would need it to work for your theory. Bride kidnapping was quite common among my people and still happens but it is not the way you think. Bride kidnapping happens especially among people of the same or...

I know that video watch it again. It says Bride kidnapping was quite uncommon but became common as a protest against the Soviets who forbid that.

There is actually archeoligcal connection between North_Iran, Leyla Tepe culture in Southeast Caucasus, the Samara culture and Yamnaya culture. Actually the oldest Kurgans are from the Leyla Tepe culture while almost simultaneously appearing in the Samara culture too (Maybe few hundred years later).

Correct, most of their ancestry seem to be independently brought to them. Even their CHG ancestry which is quite amazing considering how far Latvia is from the Caucasus. So a CHG like pop seem to have brought this admixture independently to CW. This population could have come from anywhere...