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A pullback or wipeout due to the Younger Dryas cooling event does seem very likely. Apparently the Goyet DNA re-emerged around the Pyrenees a few thousand years later. Their migration must have been constrained to the Atlantic seaboard later on.

The Ukrainian HG sample shows that WHG reached the Eastern side of the Carpathians. We should also assume EHG were roaming around the whole area from the Arctic across Baltic up to the Black Sea. Everywhere along the line there must have been contact with EHG. We should see different R1a...

We have known for some time that SHG was a mixture of EHG and WHG. Now it seems WHG in that was mostly Iron Gates… I wonder if they covered all the available Scandinavian HG samples. Many HG sites are wihout human remains, though, so it remains inconclusive if the tools of a culture were...

“The Y-chromosome haplogroup determined for San Teodoro 3 is I2a2”

One of the individuals from Gotland does have some Italian LP. All in all, a remarkable example of admixture between all groups.

The latest article on this is probably Mittnik 2018: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5789860/ The only male from that period has Y-DNA I. Wikipedia mentions also I2 and R1a from earlier work. I believe the population of Kunda culture was quite small overall (numbering in...

More information on the Bodzia cemetery and the grave in question, from Supplement 1 of Population genomics of the Viking world Thread discussing the article: Population genomics of the Viking world (Margaryan et al 2020) ----- Bodzia, located in the north-central part of Poland...

There are new studies out looking for the source of the pandemic. Links and commentary here: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62307383

He is part of the Ridgeway Hill burial. Isotope analysis for these men indicated they were born in Scandinavia. As the burial was about 1000 years ago, it would mean they were Viking warriors. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridgeway_Hill_Viking_burial_pit

They also looked at porosity etc indicating childhood malnutrition. The level of that was similar across all periods. So, neolithic people were slightly shorter than contemporary people wih similar genes. I didn’t notice any reference to the cultures where these people were from. A diet rich...

Some numbers from the abstract: We found that individuals from the Neolithic were shorter than expected (given their individual polygenic height scores) by an average of −3.82 cm relative to individuals from the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic (P = 0.040) and −2.21 cm shorter relative to...

If anyone cares to look into Ukraine's history, here's a book on it. The latest date on the timeline is 2015, when this war had already started (though Russia has never declared a war and refuses to admit there is one)...

Agree that this is probably the Siberian (EHG) ancestry. On the models that have Siberian groups separately, Siberia should be shown instead. FTDNA’s myOrigins 3.0 has about 6 separate Siberian clusters.

Have a look at an interactive map of civilan damage in Ukraine. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/03/17/hospitals-bombed-and-apartments-destroyed-mapping-incidents-of-civilian-harm-in-ukraine/ Also, photos of the banned cluster munitions. Why are they banned? Because many of the bomblets...

I can imagine Russian stategists brainstorming pretexts for “special military operations” and leaking them to the crazies in the state media to gauge if that would cause a popular uprising or not. Are they as shrewd and ruthless as this? Yes. Meanwhile, Novaya Gazeta (their editor-in-chief won...

Likewise, the Donetsk region is a major industrial center - steel and coal, including military industries. Azovstal in Mariupol is/was (before bombed by Russia) one of the largest steel mills in Europe. Harkiv has loads of strategic science, physics to radars.

The picture was even more varied: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01652-4 The Black Death (1347–1352 CE) is the most renowned pandemic in human history, believed by many to have killed half of Europe’s population. However, despite advances in ancient DNA research that conclusively...

Considering how much effort Macron and Johnson are putting into supporting Ukraine, it seems the East has been expanding rapidly… Heads-up to Americans for sharing the intelligence information on Russian preparations. This may have saved Kyiv and enabled other countries to boost support to...

Now we see Russians dig in in many places, ancipating counter-attacks. There is talk that they don’t have many rockets left either. Ukraine has been really good at attacking Russian supply lines as well and there is talk that they are reorganising into smaller mobile units - harder to catch...