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Pip
The autosomal results are equally reliable; it's just that there are less of them, and the ones that there are match 50% with the Levantine Neolithic (just as is the case with another nearby contemporary sample with better coverage).
It appears that none of the samples on this map are confirmed T-M184 (xT1).
I am only aware of four confirmed T(xT1) samples - the one in Varna and three recently-related modern ones (two of which are south of the Caucasus).
T per se was present in Neolithic Levant, just as it was in Europe. (Indeed, my own calculations suggest that both phylogenic and STR diversities of various branches of T are higher in West Asia than in Europe.) All I am saying is that the T(xT1) reading could provide an explanation for its Levantine autosomal DNA.
These people were basically European farmers, which means they were mostly Anatolian farmer, which means they had a big chunk of Levantine Neolithic.
There is absolutely no evidence, none, that there was a different, later migration specifically from the Levant to this particular area, other than your speculations.
Fwiw, also, you don't seem to have absorbed the fact that the sample upon which you are basing your speculations is low coverage.
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