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Basque and other Iberian languages were probably introduced to Iberia during the Neolithic period and were carried on as a legacy of the maternal continuity of the penninsula. As we saw the neolithic genomes were very Basque like by modern standards and demonstrated that current distribution of...

Steppe ancestry can't come from Anatolia, at least not originally. I suppose there can be an immediate position, perhaps somewhere in NW Anatolia or Bulgaria, but it's unlikely to be indigenous to that region. There is a EHG component to "Steppe" ancestry, and the earliest farmers from Anatolia...

Actually, there is Steppe admixture in the Mycenaean population that was not there during the Minoan period, the Mathieson paper you are inferring even stated as such. It wasn't a repopulation event, who thought it was anyways? Yamnaya is 3200 BC, these graves were what...1200 BC? Of course...

If the Irish Burkes are descended from Charlemagne like they claim, we do know the haplogroup. It is a rare SNP underneath R1b-DF27 called "S19290" that is almost exclusively west-central European, rather than Irish or Iberian. To the point about Merovingians, I guess you meant the Plantagenet...

The sea people were probably from mainland western Europe, excellent seamen and warriors with horned helmets. Arriving in Sardinia from France, Spain, and northern Italy and then pushing into the east Mediterranean from western Europe. I wouldn't expect a very large contribution of "Sherden" in...

The Portugese R1b do show a shift to the steppe as some third parties like Davidski have shown, even though it is considerably smaller than central Europe. This is because the mithochondrial pool stayed largely the same, and we have an influx of males who took local mates. I'm not sure what is...

Because the very common branches of I2-L621 in the Balkans have a very young TMRCA that spread with Slavic speakers less than 2000 years ago. Yes, the ancestor to this branch is far older, but likely resided in NE Europe along with R1a-M458. Perhaps the Belarus area. E-V13 is also quite common...

You're not looking at the data correctly. You absolutely can break Yamnaya apart from CHG. Europeans don't descend form CHG as an isolate, at least not by much, but they do descend from a composite population similar to Yamnaya, Andronovo, and Karasuk to a lesser extent (Some relative of CHG +...

I suppose, but please point out to me a U5a rich Middle Eastern population. I'll give you some time to get back to me..no rush or anything. I found this post from Dienekes' blog relevant. It wouldn't surprise me if they were genomically similar to the Cretan_Armenoi...

I suspect the Mycenaean element is still Europe_LNBA + local Minoan from the previous phases. That's why it's not full on steppe, nor can it be modeled full EHG. The Central European population at the time already had large amounts of EEF, such as the Bell Beaker ones. I think Bell Beaker will...

Was actually a Germanic chieftain whom the early English kings/conquerors claim patrilineal descent. The later Norse borrowed, or deified the chieftain for some reason. The original was no god, just a mortal man. He did not originate in Scandinavia but rather NW Europe.

Ancient Egyptians are absolutely nothing like Europeans. EEF isn't even European really but my ancestors absorbed them thousands of years ago.

Any woman? Perhaps the woman should be young too. Older parents - both sexes, will product more defects. Perhaps an older father who is mature and settled will rear his children better and set a better example, over that young buck who isn't exactly ready for parenthood.

Not all. Mesolithic R1b in Baltic, Romania, and Ukraine were carriers of light skin mutations. WHG is on the steppe, but not as much as EHG. WHG-EHG bifurcates in mesolithic Ukraine.

Perhaps no *living* Albanian Y lineages actually descend from Normans. If even the west Europeans can't figure out who is Norman in their own damn country, how the hell would you when the connection is even more obscure? The L23 (xL51) with DYS385ab of 11,11 is definitely not from the Normans...

While related, the admixture in northern Europe is from mesolithic age CHG and doesn't appear male mediated, the admixture event in the western Middle East is Iran_CHL/Iran_NEO, which is a distant, younger relative. If you try to model north Europeans as Iran_CHL/NEO, it won't jive. Let's face...

I really don't think so. J2b(1 or 2) likely arrived with the Iran_CHL type of component in the Bronze Age with the wave of city builders out of Mesopotamia. I'm not exactly sure how they wound up in southern Italy and the Balkans, but this appears to be the case since this component is also...

One of the R1b-Z2103 males was a carrier for blonde hair, and I believe one of the older papers had a BB male positive for a red haired SNP. Both were reported in the actual paper, so this isn't a third party character running low quality data. Just a FYI, not that anyone asked. I believe a...

So how long do we keep making excuses? If Britain were to withdraw all military from every middle eastern country, do you really think they would be less of a target? This is rich coming from the Bosniak who is a product of a culture that was imposed on a European country against its will. Make...

Not exactly. Dereivka and the successor cultures Yamnaya, and Corded Ware are largely R1a, R1b, and I2-M223. What exactly is dead of Anthony or Gimbutas' theory? You're putting far too much emphasis on differences between WHG-EHG when they are largely the same thing. If we aren't differentiating...