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Cotofeni had kind of two big steppe contacts: 1) Early Western steppe like from Suvorovo, Usatovo-Gorodsk and probably mainly Cernavoda I. 2) Yamnaya and Vucedol which helped to initiate the formation of Gornea-Orlesti-Foeni. The latter is most likely the last common layer for all Thracians and...

I41062 4450 SE E-BY190131 His haplogroup is too young and he plots in a manner which doesn't fit. His IBD matches too look too modern and his closest match is from 1700 BP. There appear to be a couple of misdated samples. The oldest genuinely Thracian individual is, like I had...

We need Cotofeni samples to be sure. Because if Cotofeni was still like Bodrogkeresztur, so completely local dominated, despite small steppe, then its possible.

Its nice to have it still, yes, but no more downstream differentiation below E, especially in North Africa, is like a joke.

If you combined E-V13 finds, autosomal Thracian shift in groups and multiple individuals, as well as IBD sharing, you get this map for the Early Iron Age distribution: The only significant element left out are the Phrygians, with the Balkan-shifted, increased steppe E-V13 from the Phrygian...

Based on the data, it is very likely that the E-L618 lineages in Varna came from Tiszpolgar-Bodrogkeresztur. Unfortunately we don't have the sample from Tripolye-Cucuteni and Usatovo in the IBD data base. What I could do was checking if the Verteba cave TCC individuals have indeed...

The new E-L618, E-CTS1975 -> PF2252 sample which looks basically like Danubian CA (could be either Bodrogkeresztur or Varna, rather, mixed with Salcuta?) with increased steppe: If plotting him beside the other early E-L618 in the data base, you can clearly see that he plots the closest to the...

When realising that I20184 is for sure Aegean-Anatolian admixed and having close matches from the Greek sphere, I still saw a problem: Her Greek-like matches don't look like the ideal source of the admixture. The admixture looks more Minoan-like, but definitely not Minoan-proper, but still...

Keep in mind that these are just guesses based on rough similarity by the creators. We don't have the actual context of these samples. And e.g. https://discover.familytreedna.com/y-dna/E-FT64983/tree is an Iron Age branch, so by itself unlikely to be from the BA. Even more, in the BA Epiros...

Since I41598 seems to be likely the oldest and most important sample for E-V13 in the whole set, I did try to find out even more about his IBD matches and the results are absolutely striking: I41598.TW<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; NEO147.SG 15.09 MN Tisza, very high ANF...

These results being now confirmed by the Akbari data set also. This data set has more than 10.000 new samples and of these are less than 300 E-V13 carriers. Yet, among those with a typical Thracian ancestral profile (roughly 75 % ANF : 25 % Steppe with only trace levels of other ancestries)...

I think samples I41598 and I40508 under E-BY4642 could potentially be some of the oldest Thracian E-V13 samples in the data base: https://genarchivist.net/showthread.php?tid=24&pid=73074#pid73074 The have much closer than usual steppe matches, and also pretty close matches to Neolithic (like MN...

Searching for more samples with the right ratio of high ANF and low steppe, without other significant admixture - note that practically all samples not listed here were already gathered during my search for E-V13 branches - so they all are E-V13 - except those females and exceptional...

Here is a PCA with many of the main Thracian branches and as you can see, there is a cluster of samples right around the Thracian from North Bulgaria (North of the Balkan mountains) and the two more Northern shifted South Thracians plus the E-FGC11451 centered ANF-rich cluster of the new...

The real Thracian custom was elite polygyny and sometimes widow sacrifices, a custom which spread with Thracian influences as far as Frög in Southern Austria. So they were strongly patriarchal and patrilinear based on the surviving evidence. That they were so can also be seen in the fact that...

The New E-CTS1975 with a rather Gumelnita-Karanovo-Varna to BSK profile just split the branch. That makes his origin and background all the more interesting.

I wrote about that at genarchivist. We have now two old, isolated E-L618 branches with an ancient DNA sample from Europe and one from the Caucasus/Near East (Georgia and Iraq respectively). But its hard to conclude too much from it, because we also have other branches of E-L618 and E-V13 which...

Going upstream the parallel branches appear especially in Yamnaya and Maros. That, I would say, points to Vucedol. To call Vucedol Illyrian in the sense of the later Iron Age Illyrians is probably a bit too much, but the affiliation is definitely more with Illyrian. At the same, Maros was...

Mezocsat is a Post-Gáva hybridised horizon. I analysed all the samples of the local females we got and the pattern is pretty unambiguous: The whole central region being dominated by a mix of Kjatice-Gáva - or put differently, by Kyjatice pulled towards the Thracian core. The strongest...

No, they represent early Greeks. Like I13506 = https://www.exploreyourdna.com/sample/greece/i13506 Keep in mind that there is some overlap between the Greek and the Thracian sphere, also due to common ground from BSK/Salcuta and Gumelnita-Karanovo influences, which came down both independently...