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If there was a migration from Europe, we'd find Megalithic haplogroups in Africa - but we don't. The suggestion of Shriner (2018) of V88 in Chad and Sudan as recent (300-500 years ago) Baggara introgression seems more realistic. A more interesting question would be how V88 expanded in West Asia.

The differentation has nothing to do with Slav women - try to take a look at the data at least. Present day inhabitants are shifted towards the Near East compared to those samples. The ancients here are between Iberians and North Italians (not close to Tuscans in the PCA). No group like that...

Seems like it, lots of Iranian and minor Levantine admixture arriving in Anatolia in the CA/BA.

As davef noted 3 of the LA samples are nestled between Myceneans and the Central Anatolians who were likely responsible for the spread of bronze technology in West Eurasia. Perhaps in the Central Mediterranean the bearers of bronze technology encountered fewer natives. The most interesting find...

Isn't that what always happens in models with temporally disparate sources - a bias towards the younger samples if they have related ancestries? LN Morocco has Spanish Neocolithic admixture so of course it would be preferred over ANF/Zagros. Sicilians should derive most of their ancestry from...

True, but the Peloponnese was part of a different BA tradition, the Helladic, that spread from Thrace around 3300 BC. The Minoan likely came directly via Anatolia. There was a leak about an almost CWC-like in LN Greece afaik, so steppe ancestry in the mainland could be old.

I don't think we have any pre-Mycenean Peloponnese samples yet except for that one early Neolithic farmer. So everything's open with regard to replacement or lack thereof.

If I remember correctly, while I2a-Din shows highest SNP basal diversity in the region between Ukraine, Poland and Belarus, STR diversity is highest in northern Romania and Moldova. Perhaps a very distant early ancestor of the Slavs originally came from assimilated southern neighbours before the...

The big revelation here is that microblade industries aren't correlated with ANE ancestry with East Asia. I think that necessariky means south-eastern Siberia was populated by hunters of a different type - likely fully East Eurasian.

That's a PH155 though, nothing to do with Yamnaya. It separated before the Villabruna HG.

They'll only have to test Grave Circle A/B and we'll know what the very elite of the early Greeks look like. Those would've been the first samples I'd have tested to solve the whole IE question. Not sure why no one bothered thus far. IMHO the place of origin the male lines in the shaft graves...

No, the crown belonged to the woman he was buried with. I'd be reluctant to speculate about the political situation there, but I think he was pretty important. Perhaps more like one of several important guys rather than an outright king - it's difficult to tell.

Nah, middle aged male as per the supplement of the paper. Assigned to J2a1 by the Russians on molgen. They didn't sequence the woman for some reason. Perhaps the Goths absorbed the remnants of the Bosporans.

My mother's familiy comes from a quite isolated agricultural region at the French border. At a family meet I once tried to explain to my relatives that Y-DNA and surname unmistakably pointed to the line's patriarch having been a Prussian from the other end of the German-speaking areas. It wasn't...

I think it should come as no surprise if the Hellenes were found to have been unusually endogamous compared to other peoples.

He's buried with typically Germanic implements. He was middle aged and buried with the woman to whom the famous Crown of Kerch belonged. https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/museum-fuer-vor-und-fruehgeschichte/exhibitions/detail/die-krone-von-kertsch.html Perhaps a political...

Geates/Gutes are the ancestors of the Swedes, i. e. North Germanics. Goths are East Germanic.

My guess is that the nooks and crannies are irrelevant for metal age demographics. Once the sources of wealth and the best agricultural lands are lost population decline inevitably occurs. An economically successful group capable of feeding their offspring would become demographically dominant...

Have you taken a look at the Ostrogothic guy from Kerch? I really hope someone from the prominent teams takes a look at Jastorf, so we get an idea what the earliest discernible Germanic groups looked like.

Yes, after the mixed population had coalesced they replaced everyone. The Iberians/Tartessians were 100% L51 as expected.