The autosomal dna for the R1b-U106 individual who lived 3736 years ago on the Southern tip of the Swedish peninsula is now available. This is the oldest U106 sample I’m aware of. Today U106 peaks in North Holland, if I’m not mistaken, and is pretty common in England as well – where I believe my U106 patrilineal ancestors came from.
The Eurogenes K15 results gave me some surprises:
98.44% of the genes came from the first 5 of the 15 categories: North Sea, Atlantic, Baltic, Eastern Euro, and West Med. And another 1.07% was South Asian. This was like the older Motala 12, Loschbour and La Brana 1 individuals in that way, although with different proportions of those components and the older samples didn’t have any of the West Med component, which today peaks in Sardinians.
There was no West Asian component. I thought there would be some Yamna / Corded Ware influence there, thus leaving at least a trace of the West Asian component, but no there wasn’t any! In the table below I averaged the seven Yamna samples and 4 Corded Ware samples from a Eurogenes K15 spreadsheet and got 18.85% West Asian for the Yamna, and 11.2% West Asian for the Corded Ware samples. And the Bell Beaker average even had 5.02% West Asian. The Hinxton Celt average (samples 1 and 4) had 4.45% West Asian, which was more than the Hinxton Anglo-Saxon average (samples 2, 3 and 5) of 3.24. Todays Swedes have 2.54% of the West Asian component. How did this Swedish U106 guy miss out on all the fun?
There was no East Med component either, of which today Swedes and SouthEast English have 1.06% and 2.5% of, respectively. Many ancient European farmers had this component. Stuttgart had 25.91% of it, and Gokhem 2 had 4.66%.
This makes me think this U106 guy may not have spoken a Germanic language or have had a Norse religion. I suspect those things probably came with the West Asian component. Although I think he may have had smaller parts of those things. But if that were the case, what Y-haplogroup did those conquering tribes have? Were they R1a, and then over time some leaders became U106 and I1?
Eurogenes_K15
Population | North_Sea | Atlantic | Baltic | Eastern_Euro | West_Med | West_Asian | East_Med | Red_Sea | South_Asian | Southeast_Asian | Siberian | Amerindian | Oceanian | Northeast_African | Sub-Saharan |
U106_Southern_
Sweden_3736_ybp | 39.93% | 18.64% | 15.82% | 16.41% | 7.64% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.07% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.12% | 0 | 0.36% |
Swedish | 39.32 | 22.58 | 15.55 | 10.95 | 5.23 | 2.54 | 1.06 | 0.3 | 0.52 | 0.2 | 0.39 | 0.49 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.28 |
Norwegian | 39.74 | 23.47 | 13.26 | 11.48 | 6.36 | 2.24 | 0.8 | 0.14 | 0.81 | 0.08 | 0.5 | 0.72 | 0.32 | 0.06 | 0.04 |
North_Swedish | 36.66 | 21 | 15.78 | 15.37 | 4.02 | 1.35 | 0.68 | 0.34 | 0.69 | 0.55 | 2.21 | 0.64 | 0.62 | 0.07 | 0.03 |
Motala12 | 34.36 | 10.06 | 26.87 | 27.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.97 | 0.25 | 0 | 0 |
Loschbour | 29.69 | 29.57 | 31.49 | 8.31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.93 | 0 | 0 |
La_Brana-1 | 29.05 | 27.26 | 27.78 | 14.1 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.8 | 0 | 0 |
Gokhem2 | 16.74 | 27.71 | 3.78 | 0 | 45.34 | 0 | 4.66 | 0.78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.98 | 0.01 | 0 |
Bell_Beaker_Avg | 30.76 | 27.08 | 12.54 | 10.64 | 9.06 | 5.02 | 0.73 | 0.29 | 0.93 | 0.01 | 0.61 | 1.81 | 0.13 | 0.08 | 0.32 |
Corded_Ware_Avg | 28.44 | 19.01 | 15.38 | 19.30 | 0.00 | 11.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.45 | 0.00 | 0.12 | 2.07 | 0.43 | 0.62 | 0.00 |
Yamnaya_Average | 24.73 | 4.05 | 13.05 | 28.68 | 0.00 | 18.85 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.89 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.57 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.15 |
Hinxton_AS_Avg | 41.37 | 28.59 | 8.85 | 9.48 | 6.16 | 3.24 | 0.31 | 0.28 | 0.36 | 0.23 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.13 | 0.27 | 0.69 |
Hinxton_Celt_Avg | 37.83 | 29.64 | 10.16 | 9.22 | 6.56 | 4.45 | 0.01 | 0.71 | 0.95 | 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.26 |
Southeast_English | 35.52 | 29.86 | 9.89 | 8.36 | 8.77 | 3.35 | 2.50 | 0.33 | 0.58 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.35 | 0.31 | 0.06 | 0.03 |
North_Dutch | 37.63 | 27.09 | 12.32 | 9.19 | 6.80 | 3.69 | 1.51 | 0.77 | 0.37 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.21 | 0.20 | 0.08 | 0.04 |
Ust'-Ishim | 0 | 11.24 | 0 | 3.08 | 4.82 | 0 | 0 | 3.36 | 30.76 | 15.25 | 2.02 | 2.2 | 10.96 | 10.08 | 6.22 |
Kostenki_14 | 18.81 | 12.39 | 6.52 | 9.71 | 9.77 | 0 | 0 | 5.7 | 17.42 | 1.33 | 0.66 | 4.74 | 5.11 | 5.19 | 2.66 |
Mal'ta | 15.91 | 0 | 6.54 | 38.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.31 | 0 | 0 | 18.62 | 0.12 | 0 | 0.47 |