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The later Eastern Steppe derives its ancestry from Corded Ware, not directly from Yamnaya (Western Steppe). This is surprising.

He is basing his suggestion on a common Indo-Uralic language, not sure if that idea has much support these days. Also all these ideas of languages being related because of 1-2 similar words out of 50 are not a strong argument in my mind. The Kelteminar culture he refers to was apparently a...

In Hungary it was only the conquering elite that had Siberian ancestry. The greater population was and remained central European. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)00732-1

See also Grünthal et al 2022 on arguments for a Siberian Proto-Uralic homeland and the role of Uralic people as ST traders and miners in the wider context of the 4.2 kya event. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/publications/drastic-demographic-events-triggered-the-uralic-spread

This is putting one theory against another. If Nganasan and Enets started their migration north/east from central Ural, how do you explain their Mongolia_N ancestry while lacking China_YR ancestry that the Tungusic groups have? Also note Yukagirs far to the east whose language displays ancient...

Interestingly, the PCA for Yakutia_LNBA overlaps with the Khatystyr Cave sample from 10 kybp. That location is much further east in Siberia.

Of course each population is a mixture of its ancestral populations. But you have to keep in mind that you can only add these, not remove some genes from the gene pool (though old minority ancestries do get diluted). The Siberian ancestry is carried by all the Uralic people, even those that...

The Samoyedic languages (including Nganasan) are also considered to be a very old branch off proto-Uralic. See Wikipedia citing phylogenic modelling of Honkola 2013. Considering that these people currently inhabit the Arctic coast, it’s hard to see them somehow interacting a lot with different...

The Zeng et al 2023 article was only mentioned in johen’s ST thread, it deserves it’s own thread. https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/postglacial-genomes-from-foragers-across-northern-eurasia-reveal-prehistoric-mobility-associated-with-the-spread-of-the-uralic-and-yeniseian-languages.45390/

It’s notable that one of the ST-related Siberian individuals had WHG ancestry.

Abstract The North Eurasian forest and forest-steppe zones have sustained millennia of sociocultural connections among northern peoples. We present genome-wide ancient DNA data for 181 individuals from this region spanning the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age. We find that Early to...

Here is an image from https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5204334 (2017) Geographical dispersion model. The approximate model of gene flows reflecting divergence of primary clades in Europe, East Asia, and Siberia with approximate divergence times based on Chromosome Y, MSMC, TreeMix...

Note that Nganasans have also been identified as the most representative of the “Uralic” component in the DNA of Uralic people, which is also a strong distinguishing factor. This may be due to the fact that they are simply the least admixed people of the Uralic groups, having been pushed...

Ind 11 is an exception - a female with Nordic ancestry who had grown up somewhere else. All were people that had done physical labour, seen violence or even died violently, buried in a sacred place at a time when most were burned and with the graves marked…

Maps showing networks of highest IBD sharing (top 10 highest sharing per individual) during different time periods for 579 imputed genomes predating 3,000 cal. BP and located in the geographical region shown. Shading and thickness of lines are scaled to represent the amount of IBD shared between...

Abstract Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterized genetically at broad regional scales1,2,3,4. However, insights into the population dynamics in the contact zones are hampered by a lack of ancient genomic data sampled at high spatiotemporal resolution5,6,7. Here, to...

Isotope analysis has shown she was actually born near the Alps, not England.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-65919518 The face of a girl who died more than 1,300 years ago has been revealed through facial reconstruction. Her skeleton was found buried on a wooden bed, with a gold and garnet cross on her chest at Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, in 2012.