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The user Arthwr has a made a map about R1b-PF7562 branch He compiled data from academic papers and got this numbers Kosovo - 9/114 (7,89 %); Macedonia - 4/79 (5,06 %); Albania - 11/223 (4,93 %); Serbia - 7/235 (2,98 %); Armenia - 5/176 (2,84 %); Cyprus - 16/574 (2,79 %); Lezgins - 1/41 (2,44...

New aDNA from Spain. http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/09/02/molbev.msv181.abstract

From Davidski's blog ---------- Indeed, in regards to the Balkans being something unique during the Bronze Age, I also don't think so. This is where a Bronze Age Bulgarian clusters on the usual type of West Eurasian PCA (just west of Tuscans)... Source...

Most of genetics use Tuscany population as proxy for Etruscan and consistently find some Near Eastern links. But how we can be sure that Toscanians represent the ancient population? The Hellenthal et al. map shows a quite significant admixture in Middle Ages 942CE (522CE - 1222CE) for Tuscany...

http://gbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/7/7/1940.long The split between the M78 and M123 branches dates from 25.000 years ago. M78 itself is 15.000 years old while its V12, V13 and V22 branches are, respectively, 10,000, 8,000 and 8,000 years old. M34 itself is 20.000 years old. It seems that...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-17/syria-army-pushes-is-back-from-ancient-palmyra/6476434 This is a very Good News. Thanks to Syrian soldiers who protected this wonderful city. The bad news is that ISIS remains very close and the danger that they will try another attack is high. The very bad...

Let's compare the number of substrate words in different languages. I will tell my language story because I am more informed about it. The Old Classic Armenian is attested from 410 AD. It has 11000 roots. Various linguists estimate that 3500-5000 roots are from substratum. Many scholars think...

Some important words connecting PIE with Sumerian perhaps somewhere in West Asia. http://new-indology.blogspot.com/2015/05/sumerian-and-indo-european-surprising.html I will post here the two most important words related to farming. Sum. agar ‘meadow, field’, PIE *ag’ra- ‘field’ (Skt. ajra-...

... ... http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0122968 Well the Iranian spreading is probable, but an earlier spreading before IE is also possible. What takes my attention here. Bashkirs are high in R1b-Z2105. Armenians are high in R1b Z2103 The splite between...

The extremly high diversity of indigenous American languages is quite perplexing for me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas We know that indigenous Americans didn't have high genetic diversity. the first humans entere there before 10000 BC and the majority of...