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The papers that first described the Chalcolithic kurgans south of the Cacausus are Lyonnet et al. (2008) & Museyibli (2008a). I do think however that Yamnaya kurgans are modelled after those of Kemi Oba & Maikop. Seems unlikely they came up with the practice on their own at the same time and in...

That's an impressive compilation of right-wing revisionist talking points. It is well known that the Nazis attempted to appease the Western powers after their victory over France (especially in the case 'Germanic' England), but the fact that you think this is relevant in this context betrays...

The first appearance of R1b in Europe is concomitant with an increased affinity towards the Near East. I wouldn't get my hopes up for an European origin of the M269. Macrogroup P1 wasn't really around before the Late Upper Paleolithic, it came from the east at some point.

It is difficult to appreciate the extent of the devotion to Hitler in large parts of the German population if you aren't proficient in German and haven't read some of the primary sources. He received fanmail that reads much like something a contemporary movie star or singer would get. Even...

I looked it up - you're right it was only 1 elite male that was sampled in that Austrian paper. Sorry!

I guess language change is quite erratic so we may never know for sure, but a Celtic split that early in time goes against everything I believe to know. Moreover, I do not find it very difficult to believe that the Iron Age Celts, who by that time were probably advanced enough to field actual...

What confuses me a bit is that David Reich seems to imply the impact of said turnover was more significant than the effect of later Anglo-Saxon invasions? Sounds intriguing. But generally I find it pretty difficult to get excited for more samples from Britain ;) I'd also much prefer to see...

You're right it would make little sense for them to be completely like LN farmers. Is it really possible to discern whether the admixing population was completely like LN farmers or just predominantly so? I think the two Hallstatt samples published thus far belong to G2a-L497 (n=2).

It would help if we knew what the pre-Germanic inhabitants of Austria and Bavaria looked like. Who says they weren't autosomally more like, say, modern Iberians? The Hallstatt-La-Tène complex is in any case the perfect correlate for the Celtic expansion. The dates mathc, everything about it...

Perhaps the Celts that came from the vicinity of Austria/Bavaria carried significant Mediterranean ancestry in the first place, and didn't mix much with the more northern groups that they encountered before coming to Britain? It's absolutely, positively impossible that Bell Beaker brought...

J2b-L283, E-V13 & R1b-Z2103 are still very frequent Y-DNA in the Altaic & Uralic groups of the European steppe and the forest zone to the north where neolithic farmers probably didn't play a very important role or never reached at all. I find this a good reason to believe that these Y-DNA...

There's also no L51 yet afaik - this would pose a significant problem if the date of Hajji Firuz Tepe can be substantiated, which would push the bifurcation of M269 way back. There seems to have been a strong selection on the Y-chromosome in those bronze age cultures in any case, since every...

Good thinking, it could also explain how one group of incipient Eurasians (i. e. the Basal Eurasian ghost) could have avoided Neandertal gene flow which surely mainly occurred in the Levant & adjacent West Asia.

I had looked at this, but I think I didn't notice that Lazaridis also used Mota as an outgroup, which should according to the analysis above have the Hadza component. This is very confusing. I find it quite difficult to fully understand intra-African diversity to be honest. What causes the...

I'm also interested in this. If it isn't too far off-topic, have you taken a look at the Taforalt paper? The ADMIXTURE analysis suggests that the African admixture in Natufian, Iran_Hotu/Iran_Neo and so forth is related to a component that is modal in the Hadza. A very unlikely source, but it...

IIRC Bar-Yosef stresses the Egyptian influence in the Late Upper Paloelithic Levantine, which becomes very marked in the Mushabian culture (i.e. before the Natufian and after the Kebaran) which seems be a culture of arid-zone specialist hunter-gatherers who also collected grain & grass and...

But that is an Anglo-Saxon map from 1800 C. E. . I thought we were talking about Herodotus:

Do your ancestors come from the vicinity of Mali or Mauritania per chance? There seems to be an excess of Mediterranean ancestry in North-West Africa, which might ultimately have come from Europe. It is ancient admixture for sure - these tests tend to be biased towards European populations, so...

I believe that for Herodotus Asia was more or less synonymous with the Persian empire at its maximum extent, plus the Arabian peninsula perhaps and sans the the parts west of the Bosporus. Siberia would have been Europe more likely.

Are you referring to Bomhard's and Nicholl's work on the origin of PIE? If so I think they claimed that a North-West Caucasian language provided the substrate in the formation of PIE rather than the superstrate.