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Mycenaeans are a Mediterranean but not uniform population. Some have more steppe and lower iran/chg, some have no steppe and higher iran/chg. A lot of "flunctuations" we see could simply be internal movement of pre-existing Mycenaean clans. Or not. We don't know for sure, yet. Post BA Greeks...

You can already see this by comparing autosomal ancestry to ancient samples and simulating how it would change if there was a large or small migration. Greece isn't easy to model for the simple reason that at first we thought there was a lot of Balkan influence but then it was found out that...

There's no levantine ancestry (or movement in general) into Greece or Italy or any part of Europe. Some levantine-like ancestry might pop up due to a combination of sources used and the BA or/and IA Anatolian ancestry (which itself is 50% Mycenaean as confirmed by Lazaridis) that is indeed...