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    The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant (Agranat-Tamir et al. 2020)

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    The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant

    Highlights
    - Analysis of genome-wide data for nine sites from the Bronze Age Southern Levant

    - Contemporaneous samples from multiple sites are genetically similar
    - Migration from the Zagros and/or Caucasus to the Levant between 2500–1000 BCE
    - People related to these individuals contributed to all present-day Levantine populations

    Summary
    We report genome-wide DNA data for 73 individuals from five archaeological sites across the Bronze and Iron Ages Southern Levant. These individuals, who share the “Canaanite” material culture, can be modeled as descending from two sources: (1) earlier local Neolithic populations and (2) populations related to the Chalcolithic Zagros or the Bronze Age Caucasus. The non-local contribution increased over time, as evinced by three outliers who can be modeled as descendants of recent migrants. We show evidence that different “Canaanite” groups genetically resemble each other more than other populations. We find that Levant-related modern populations typically have substantial ancestry coming from populations related to the Chalcolithic Zagros and the Bronze Age Southern Levant. These groups also harbor ancestry from sources we cannot fully model with the available data, highlighting the critical role of post-Bronze-Age migrations into the region over the past 3,000 years.





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    Quote Originally Posted by Regio X View Post
    https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30487-6

    The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant

    Highlights
    - Analysis of genome-wide data for nine sites from the Bronze Age Southern Levant

    - Contemporaneous samples from multiple sites are genetically similar
    - Migration from the Zagros and/or Caucasus to the Levant between 2500–1000 BCE
    - People related to these individuals contributed to all present-day Levantine populations

    Summary
    We report genome-wide DNA data for 73 individuals from five archaeological sites across the Bronze and Iron Ages Southern Levant. These individuals, who share the “Canaanite” material culture, can be modeled as descending from two sources: (1) earlier local Neolithic populations and (2) populations related to the Chalcolithic Zagros or the Bronze Age Caucasus. The non-local contribution increased over time, as evinced by three outliers who can be modeled as descendants of recent migrants. We show evidence that different “Canaanite” groups genetically resemble each other more than other populations. We find that Levant-related modern populations typically have substantial ancestry coming from populations related to the Chalcolithic Zagros and the Bronze Age Southern Levant. These groups also harbor ancestry from sources we cannot fully model with the available data, highlighting the critical role of post-Bronze-Age migrations into the region over the past 3,000 years.




    Sounds like Iran Neo, or not?

    Plus, there's something extra they can't pinpoint.

    Hope at least the Supplement is available. I'll read it with interest.

    Do they test the various varieties of Jews for it?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Angela View Post
    Sounds like Iran Neo, or not?

    Plus, there's something extra they can't pinpoint.

    Hope at least the Supplement is available. I'll read it with interest.

    Do they test the various varieties of Jews for it?
    Apparently the paper is "open access".

    Supplemental: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30487-6#secsectitle0190

    As for the types of Jews, I confess I don't know. I didn't read it yet.

    ED: Btw, could you move this thread to Bronze Age sub-forum, please?

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    Tuscans 30-40% MegiddoML Bronze Age plus Iran Chl. ?

    They're going to have to do a hell of a job convincing me of that.

    Does it occur to them that this composite contains a lot of Anatolia Neolithic, and they should break it up into component parts?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Regio X View Post
    Apparently the paper is "open access".

    Supplemental: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30487-6#secsectitle0190

    As for the types of Jews, I confess I don't know. I didn't read it yet.

    ED: Btw, could you move this thread to Bronze Age sub-forum, please?

    yes from another forum :
    thats before the Israelite probably Canaanites

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    I4521 Megiddo_IBA 2334-2149 calBCE (3810±20 BP, PSUAMS-2167) J

    I10268 Megiddo_MLBA 1971-1782 calBCE (3560±20 BP, OS-139225) J

    I10104 Megiddo_MLBA 1950-1800 BCE J

    I4519 Megiddo_MLBA 1527-1439 calBCE (3220±20 BP, OS-139223) J2a1b1

    I2190 Megiddo_MLBA 1496-1302 calBCE (3135±30 BP, Poz-83433) J

    I8187 Megiddo_MLBA 1800-1650 BCE J1a2b

    I8188 Megiddo_MLBA 1800-1650 BCE J1a2b

    I10359 Megiddo_MLBA 1623-1518 calBCE (3295±20 BP, PSUAMS-4852) J2a

    I10101 Megiddo_MLBA 1600-1500 BCE J1a2b

    I2189 Megiddo_I2189 (outlier) 1600-1500 BCE R

    I10769 Megiddo_MLBA 1550-1450 BCE E1b1b1b2a1

    I10770 Megiddo_MLBA 1550-1450 BCE E1b1b1b2a1a

    I10093 Megiddo_MLBA 1900-1700 BCE J1a2b

    I10264 Megiddo_MLBA 1880-1700 calBCE (3470±20 BP, OS-139224) J1a2b

    I10106 Megiddo_MLBA 1700-1500 BCE J1a2b

    I10266 Megiddo_MLBA 1638-1413 calBCE (3240±55 BP, RTK-6765) J

    I4525 Megiddo_MLBA 1600-1500 BCE J

    I10768 Megiddo_MLBA 1600-1500 BCE R1b1a1a2

    I2195 Megiddo_MLBA 1600-1278 calBCE (3160±55 BP, RTK-6766) J

    I4518 Megiddo_MLBA 1550-1300 BCE T1a1a1b2

    I2198 Megiddo_MLBA 1509-1432 calBCE (3207±20 BP, RTK-7898) J1a2b

    I4517 Megiddo_IA 1107-923 calBCE (2845±25 BP, PSUAMS-2166) J1
    I2201 Abel_IA 1011-846 calBCE (2790±30 BP, Poz-83471) T1a1a1b2b2b1a1a2

    I3965 Hazor_MLBA 1800-1700 BCE J1a2b

    I3966 Hazor_MLBA 1800-1700 BCE E1b1b1b2a1

    I7182 Yehud_IBA 2500-2000 BCE J

    I6923 Yehud_IBA 2500-2000 BCE J

    I7003 Yehud_IBA 2500-2000 BCE J2b

    I6461 Baqah_MLBA 1550-1150 BCE J1a2b

    I3985 Baqah_MLBA 1412-1234 calBCE (3065±30 BP, PSUAMS-1992) J1a2b

    I3703 Baqah_MLBA 1550-1150 BCE J1a2b

    I6464 Baqah_MLBA 1550-1150 BCE J1a2b

    I6566 Baqah_MLBA 1550-1150 BCE J1a2b

    I6569 Baqah_MLBA 1550-1150 BCE J1a2b

    I6460 Baqah_MLBA 1550-1150 BCE J

    I3705 Baqah_MLBA 1492-1303 calBCE (3130±25 BP, PSUAMS-1987) J1a2b

    I3987 Baqah_MLBA 1428-1293 calBCE (3100±25 BP, PSUAMS-1989) J1a2b

    I3706 Baqah_MLBA 1424-1288 calBCE (3095±25 BP, PSUAMS-1990) J1a2b

    I6459 Baqah_MLBA 1384-1213 calBCE (3025±20 BP, PSUAMS-3719) J1a2b

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    There's a problem with the "Somali" they find in the Levant too. Who says that it arrived in the Levant as "Somali" like, perhaps with East African slave women?

    Somali's are 40% West Eurasian like. Some older studies said it was "Sardinian" like.

    These papers by less established researchers are not inspiring a lot of confidence.

    I want to see what reference they're using for European Late Neolithic. If they're using a heavily steppe admixed sample, no wonder Tuscans come out the way they do. Try it with Villanova R1 and see what happens.

    Christ, it shouldn't need a hobbyist to point out these issues.

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    I can't believe Reich supervised this.

    He should go back to working with Lazaridis and Patterson.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Angela View Post
    There's a problem with the "Somali" they find in the Levant too. Who says that it arrived in the Levant as "Somali" like, perhaps with East African slave women?

    Somali's are 40% West Eurasian like. Some older studies said it was "Sardinian" like.

    These papers by less established researchers are not inspiring a lot of confidence.




    I want to see what reference they're using for European Late Neolithic. If they're using a heavily steppe admixed sample, no wonder Tuscans come out the way they do. Try it with Villanova R1 and see what happens.

    Christ, it shouldn't need a hobbyist to point out these issues.
    Hi Angela my question again. Why does this paper on the Bronze Age Southern Levant suggests that the East African geneflow entered the Levant after the Bronze age by using the East African admixture in modern Levantine people? How do they know? I'm a bit confused.

    In a daily mail article, the researchers stated that they don't know when
    African and European genes first made it into the genomes of modern-day inhabitants of the Levant.


    For the LINADMIX analysis of present-day populations, we used a background dataset of 1,663 present-day and ancient individuals from 239 populations genotyped by using SNP arrays and focused our analysis on 14 Jewish and Levantine present-day populations, along with modern English, Tuscan, and Moroccan populations that were used as controls. We used LINADMIX to model each of the 17 present-day populations as an admixture of four sources: (1) Megiddo_MLBA (the largest group) as a representative of the Middle-to-Late Bronze Age component; (2) Iran_ChL as a representative of the Zagros and the Caucasus; (3) Present-day Somalis as representatives of an Eastern African source (in the absence of genetic data on ancient populations from the region); and (4) Europe_LNBA as a representative of ancient Europeans from the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age (Methods S1I; Table S4; Figure S4). We also applied PHCP to these 17 present-day populations (Methods S1G; Table S4; Figure S4). Comparison of PHCP and LINADMIX shows that they agree well with respect to the Somali and Europe_LNBA component, and therefore also for the combined contribution of Iran_ChL and Megiddo_MLBA (Methods S1G; Figure S4). However, they deviate regarding the respective contributions of Iran_ChL and Megiddo_MLBA (Figure S4), likely because of the fact that the Megiddo_MLBA and Iran_ChL are already very similar populations (Table S3). To only consider results that are robust and shared by LINADMIX and PHCP, we have combined Megiddo_MLBA and Iran_ChL to a single source population representing the Middle East for our main results (Figure 5). We further verified these conclusions, as well as the robustness of the estimations, by using a different representative for the Bronze Age Levantine groups as a source (Tables S4 and S5; Methods S1J) and using perturbations to the ADMIXTURE parameters (Table S4; Methods S1K). Combined, these results suggest that modern populations related to the Levant are consistent with having a substantial ancestry component from the Bronze Age Southern Levant and the Chalcolithic Zagros. Nonetheless, other potential ancestry sources are possible, and more ancient samples might enable a refined picture (Table S4).

    The results show that since the Bronze Age, an additional East-African-related component was added to the region (on average ∼10.6%, excluding Ethiopian Jews who harbor ∼80% East African component), as well as a European-related component (on average ∼8.7%, excluding Ashkenazi Jews who harbor a ∼41% European-related component). The East-African-related component is highest in Ethiopian Jews and North Africans (Moroccans and Egyptians). It exists in all Arabic-speaking populations (apart from the Druze). The European-related component is highest in the European control populations (English and Tuscan), as well as in Ashkenazi and Moroccan Jews, both having a history in Europe (Atzmon et al., 2010, Carmi et al., 2014, Schroeter, 2008). This component is present, although in smaller amount, in all other populations except for Bedouin B and Ethiopian Jews. As expected, the English and Tuscan populations have a very low Middle-Eastern-related component. Whereas LINADMIX and PHCP have high uncertainty in estimating the relative contributions of Megiddo_MLBA and Iran_ChL, the results and simulations nevertheless suggest that additional Zagros-related ancestry has penetrated the region since the Bronze Age (Methods S1I). Except for the populations with the highest Zagros-related component, PHCP estimates lower magnitudes of this component (Figure S4A), and therefore detection by PHCP of a Zagros-related ancestry is likely an indication for the presence of this component. Indeed, examining the results of LINADMIX and PHCP on all four source populations (Figure S4), we observe a relatively large Zagros-related component in many Arabic-speaking groups, suggesting that gene flow from populations related to those of the Zagros and Caucasus (although not necessarily from these specific regions) continued even after the Iron Age (Methods S1I).
    Altogether, the patterns of the present-day populations reflect demographic processes that occurred after the Bronze Age and are plausibly related to processes known from the historical literature (Methods S1I). These include an Eastern-African-related component that is present in Arabic-speaking groups but is lower in non-Ethiopian Jewish groups, as well as Zagros-related contribution to Levantine populations, which is highest in the northernmost population examined, suggesting a contribution of populations related to the Zagros even after the Bronze and Iron Ages.








    Estimating the ancestry proportions in present-day Middle Eastern populations with substantial sub-Saharan African admixture (as well as multiple sources of admixture from different parts of the Mediterranean), is difficult. We addressed the problem by developing two statistical techniques and then testing the robustness of our inference on the basis of a comparison between these methods, simulations, and perturbations of the input (see STAR Methods; Methods S1F–S1K). We examined 14 present-day populations that are historically or geographically linked to the Southern Levant and tested the contributions of East Africa, Europe, and the Middle East (combining Southern Levant Bronze Age populations and Zagros-related Chalcolithic ones) to their ancestry. We found that both Arabic-speaking and Jewish populations are compatible with having more than 50% Middle-Eastern-related ancestry. This does not mean that any these present-day groups bear direct ancestry from people who lived in the Middle-to-Late Bronze Age Levant or in Chalcolithic Zagros; rather, it indicates that they have ancestries from populations whose ancient proxy can be related to the Middle East. The Zagros- or Caucasian-related ancestry flow into the region apparently continued after the Bronze Age. We also see an Eastern-African-related ancestry entering the region after the Bronze Age with an approximate south-to-north gradient. In addition, we observe a European-related ancestry with the opposite gradient (north-to-south). Given the difficulties in separating the ancestry components arriving from the Southern Levant and the Zagros, an important direction for future work will be to reconstruct in high resolution the ancestry trajectories of each present-day group, and to understand how people from the Southern Levant Bronze Age mixed with other people in later periods in the context of processes known from the rich archaeological and historical records of the last three millennia.


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    Quote Originally Posted by real expert View Post
    Hi Angela my question again. Why does this paper on the Bronze Age Southern Levant suggests that the East African geneflow entered the Levant after the Bronze age by using the East African admixture in modern Levantine people? How do they know? I'm a bit confused.

    In a daily mail article, the researchers stated that they don't know when
    African and European genes first made it into the genomes of modern-day inhabitants of the Levant.











    https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S...674(20)30487-6
    I guess my question would be: if you don't know when certain ancestry entered an area, why would you test it using a modern reference sample which has experienced additional admixture and drift. They say they don't have a sample from the appropriate East African period. Ok. They may not have a sample from the period of the Arab slave trade, but they have older East African samples. Haber used them.

    I won't say more because I haven't yet gone over this paper and supplement with a fine tooth comb as I did the Haber paper. I hope I have a chance this afternoon.

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    The main point of this paper is the migration of people from the Zagros and/or Caucasus to the Levant between 2500–1000 BCE. It's surprising that the authors fail to mention anything about the Akkadian Empire (c. 2334 – 2154 BCE). The paper only says:

    "In much of the Late Bronze Age, the region was ruled by imperial Egypt, although in later phases of the Iron Age it was controlled by the Mesopotamian-centered empires of Assyria and Babylonia."

    AFAIK, neither the Assyrians nor the Babylonians to their south controlled the Levant - let alone the Southern Levant, which is the focus of this study - during the Bronze Age. Only the Neo-Babylonian Empire managed such a feat, but that was only very briefly in the 6th century BCE in what was already the Classical antiquity.

    The period of the Akkadian Empire is IMO the best candidate for the diffusion of people from northern Mesopotamia (along the Zagros and southern Caucasus) to the Levant. It may not have been the Akkadians themselves, but maybe the people they displaced during their expansion. In any case, the Akkadians had a major influence in the northern Levant, imported cedar from Lebanon, etc.

    The main issue with later periods is that the Southern Levant was under Egyptian rule during the New Kingdom (c.1550 to c. 1180 BCE), so I don't see how "invaders" could have settled in the region without written record. It must have been prior to 1550 BCE. That only leaves that Akkadian Empire or the Old Assyrian Empire (2025–1522 BCE). The Assyrians did expand briefly to the whole Levant under Shamshi-Adad I (1808–1776 BCE), but I doubt that this was long enough to have significantly changed the genetic make-up of a region that was hardly changed by over 1000 years of Greek, Roman and Byzantine rule.

    That brings me back to the hypothesis that it was probably a mass migration of tribes displaced by the Akkadians and/or Assyrians.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shahmiri View Post
    Ancient Akkadians didn't live in the Zagros and/or Caucasus, people who lived in the north of Zagros were either Hurrians or Indo-Europeans, especially Indo-Iranians, we see many elements of Indo-Iranian culture from at least 17th century BC in Mitanni, this culture could be related to Kassites who lived in the Central Zagros, it has also some similarities to the culture of Sea People in the ancient Egyptian sources.
    Indoiranians definitly didn't live in Zagros or Caucasus at this time, they may have cross it to reach the Mitanni empire but to be more precise they were probably Indo-Aryans when we go by language, nothing Iranian about them. Iranian tribes settle in modern Iran around 1200 BC.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shahmiri View Post
    As an Iranian, would you please tell me why you believe it was Indo-Aryan, not Indo-Iranian?!

    In wikipedia we read about Mitanni:

    The fact is that in all Northwestern Iranian languages, such as Kurdish, Talysh, Gilaki, Mazandarani, Baluchi and etc, the Iranian word for "one" is from proto-Iranian *Haykas (Persian yek), not *Haywas (Persian yaw).

    Bale, man Irani hastam.
    Because it is the main hypothesis according to linguistic evidence we have. Iranian tribes reached northern Iran about 1200BC. We have samples with BMAC and steppe ancestry from this region they are very close to modern Iranians.
    Why should we take credit for Indo-Aryan Mitanni, when Iranian civilization is one of the oldest and richest in the world ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shahmiri View Post
    Iranian tribes (Scythians and Cimmerians) came to Iran about 800 BC, not 1200 BC, I don't talk about Iranians, not even proto-Iranian but Indo-Iranians who lived in Matiene in the northwest of Iran (north of Zagros and south of Caucasus). I'm a historian, not a follower of pan-Iranism, Iranian civilization dates back to about 7th century BC.
    What are you talking about Mr.Historian ? With Iranian tribes I obviously meant Persians,Medes and Parthians not freacking steppe dwellers. There are no Indoiranians prior to 1200BC in northern modern Iran. Matiene is obviously too young to be relevant in this discussion. Now it is pan-iranism to say that Iranian civilization is one of the oldest and richest in the world? Mr.Historian go and read up the definition pan-iranism again. Iranian civilization starts in Yaz-culture 1500BC. You have a huge problem with dates and the relevant migrations in this topic. Everything you talk about is too young to be relevant.

    Now back to the topic there is nothing that indicates that Indo-Iranians were involved in this migration into the Levant because if they were there would be sizable steppe ancestry.

    Edit: Oh i see. You are probably the same person as Cyrus account on this forum. My bad that I even started a conversation with you. Mr. Proto-Germanic from Iran hahaha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shahmiri View Post
    Ancient Akkadians didn't live in the Zagros and/or Caucasus, people who lived in the north of Zagros were either Hurrians or Indo-Europeans, especially Indo-Iranians, we see many elements of Indo-Iranian culture from at least 17th century BC in Mitanni, this culture could be related to Kassites who lived in the Central Zagros, it has also some similarities to the culture of Sea People in the ancient Egyptian sources.
    The Akkadians bordered the Zagros and South Caucasus. My argument is that their expansion and pressure on their neighbour would have displaced part of the region's population to the Levant.

    The paper clearly shows that those people who migrated from the Zagros-Caucasus to the Levant were not Indo-European genetically.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Angela View Post
    There's a problem with the "Somali" they find in the Levant too. Who says that it arrived in the Levant as "Somali" like, perhaps with East African slave women?

    Somali's are 40% West Eurasian like. Some older studies said it was "Sardinian" like.

    These papers by less established researchers are not inspiring a lot of confidence.

    I want to see what reference they're using for European Late Neolithic. If they're using a heavily steppe admixed sample, no wonder Tuscans come out the way they do. Try it with Villanova R1 and see what happens.

    Christ, it shouldn't need a hobbyist to point out these issues.
    There is no record so far that Somali-like people have been ever enslaved by anyone, even conquering them was extremely troublesome.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maciamo View Post
    The main point of this paper is the migration of people from the Zagros and/or Caucasus to the Levant between 2500–1000 BCE. It's surprising that the authors fail to mention anything about the Akkadian Empire (c. 2334 – 2154 BCE). The paper only says:

    "In much of the Late Bronze Age, the region was ruled by imperial Egypt, although in later phases of the Iron Age it was controlled by the Mesopotamian-centered empires of Assyria and Babylonia."

    AFAIK, neither the Assyrians nor the Babylonians to their south controlled the Levant - let alone the Southern Levant, which is the focus of this study - during the Bronze Age. Only the Neo-Babylonian Empire managed such a feat, but that was only very briefly in the 6th century BCE in what was already the Classical antiquity.

    The period of the Akkadian Empire is IMO the best candidate for the diffusion of people from northern Mesopotamia (along the Zagros and southern Caucasus) to the Levant. It may not have been the Akkadians themselves, but maybe the people they displaced during their expansion. In any case, the Akkadians had a major influence in the northern Levant, imported cedar from Lebanon, etc.

    The main issue with later periods is that the Southern Levant was under Egyptian rule during the New Kingdom (c.1550 to c. 1180 BCE), so I don't see how "invaders" could have settled in the region without written record. It must have been prior to 1550 BCE. That only leaves that Akkadian Empire or the Old Assyrian Empire (2025–1522 BCE). The Assyrians did expand briefly to the whole Levant under Shamshi-Adad I (1808–1776 BCE), but I doubt that this was long enough to have significantly changed the genetic make-up of a region that was hardly changed by over 1000 years of Greek, Roman and Byzantine rule.

    That brings me back to the hypothesis that it was probably a mass migration of tribes displaced by the Akkadians and/or Assyrians.
    Assyrian Empire was by far way greater than Neo-Babylonian Empire. It included Egypt as well. A bunch of Phoenicians because of Assyrian pressure took a fleet and founded Carthage on the shores of Tunisia to run away from Assyrian cruelty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Progon View Post
    Assyrian Empire was by far way greater than Neo-Babylonian Empire. It included Egypt as well. A bunch of Phoenicians because of Assyrian pressure took a fleet and founded Carthage on the shores of Tunisia to run away from Assyrian cruelty.
    You are talking about the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–609 BCE), which did take over the Levant and even Egypt at its apex in 671 BCE, not the Old Assyrian Empire (2025-1522 BCE) that matches the time frame of this study.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shahmiri View Post
    The question is not that who caused the migration but who were the immigrants, it seems to be clear that Semitic people didn't migrate from the Zagros and South Caucasus to the Levant, the paper talks about the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC when Indo-European immigrants came to this region, I don't know why you say they couldn't be Indo-European.
    Just look at the haplogroups from this study. The migrants were primarily J1, with minorities of E1b1b, J2, T1a and only one R1b. That blend looks almost stereotypically Semitic.

    Btw, the map you posted is from the Mitanni period (1500-1300 BCE), so once again after the migration period in the study (2500-1500 BCE). Obviously the Mitanni were Indo-European and the other IE people to their north were Proto-Armenians. We already have Proto-Armenian DNA, and they had a lot of R1b. So it's obvious that the South Caucasians who migrated to the Levant left before the Proto-Armenians arrived. It could also be that the Proto-Armenians and Mitanni pushed them away toward the Levant. They would have been crushed between the Assyrians to their south and the Mitanni coming from the east and the Proto-Armenians coming from the north or west.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maciamo View Post
    You are talking about the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–609 BCE), which did take over the Levant and even Egypt at its apex in 671 BCE, not the Old Assyrian Empire (2025-1522 BCE) that matches the time frame of this study.
    That's true, but i was referring to the timeline of Neo-Babylonian Empire since you mentioned it.

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    by the way i notice now when i looked
    in supplemental table S:1
    that one female from the baqah jordan
    dated to late bronze age 1424-1288 BC
    carry mtdna L0f2b

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    Quote Originally Posted by kingjohn View Post
    by the way i notice now when i looked
    in supplemental table S:1
    that one female from the baqah jordan
    dated to late bronze age 1424-1288 BC
    carry mtdna L0f2b
    Same thing happened with Spain, yes, some early SSA maternal haplogroups.

    It's highly unlikely, imo, that the SSA entered the Levant only with the Arab Slave Trade, although that may be when the majority of it arrived.

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    someone run them( snp) it look like.....( other forum)

    Y chr Haplogroup assignments:

    I7182 Yehud J2b
    I2189 Megiddo_MLBA_family4 R1a1a1:F3551/V8042/PF6231
    I2190 Megiddo_MLBA J2a1a1a2b2a1a:Z509/PF5155
    I2195 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2d2:FGC1677/Z2326
    I2198 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2d2b2F4849/Z1855
    I2201 Abel T1a1a1b2b2b1a1a2:CTS6280
    I3965 Hazor J1a2a1a2d2b2b2F4881/YSC0000235
    I3966 Hazor E1b1b1b2a1a:M34/PF2022/L797/Z1146/PF2016
    I4517 Megiddo_IA J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c2:S16807/S21060
    I4518 Megiddo_MLBA T1a1a1b2:CTS2214
    I4519 Megiddo_MLBA_family1 J2a1a1a2b2a1a:M92
    I4521 Megiddo_IBA J2b
    I4525 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2:AM01339/PF4826/Z1874
    I6461 Baqah_family6 J1a2a1a2d2b2bF4843/Z2324
    I6464 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c3:FGC63758/HU80
    I6566 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b1:FGC8223/V7510/Y3441
    I6569 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b:FGC8182/V5320/Y2920/FGC8185/ZS219/Y5761
    I6459 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b1c:FGC8224/Y3442
    I6460 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b:FGC8182/V5320/Y2920/FGC8185/ZS219/Y5761
    I3985 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b:FGC8185/ZS219/Y5761
    I3987 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b1:FGC8223/V7510/Y3441
    I3705 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b:FGC8182/V5320/Y2920/FGC8185/ZS219/Y5761
    I3706 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b1c:FGC8224/Y3442
    I3703 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b1c:FGC8224/Y3442
    I6928 Yehud_low_coverage J2b
    I6923 Yehud J2b
    I7003 Yehud J2b
    I10093 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2d2b2bF4843/Z2324
    I10101 Megiddo_MLBA_family3 J1a2a1a258/PAGE8/PF4698/PAGES00008
    I10104 Megiddo_MLBA J1
    I10106 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2d2F4854/YSC0000183/Z2320
    I10264 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2d2b2:CTS11719/PF4863/Z1888
    I10266 Megiddo_MLBA J2a2a1a:Z28375
    I10268 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c2:S21060
    I10269 Megiddo_MLBA_low_coverage R
    I10359 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2d2:CTS2453/PF4806/Z2319/FGC1677/Z2326
    I10361 Megiddo_MLBA_family3 J1a2a1:AM01312/CTS4376/Z1861
    I8187 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2d2b2b2F4881/YSC0000235
    I8188 Megiddo_MLBA_family2 J1a2a1a2d2b:Z1853
    S10769.E1.L1 Megiddo_MLBA E1b1b1b2a1a:M34/PF2022/L797/Z1146/PF2016
    S10770.E1.L1 Megiddo_MLBA E1b1b1b2a1a1:L29/PAGE47/PAGES00047
    S10768.E1.L1 Megiddo_MLBA R1b1a1b:M269


    List of derived and ancestral snps for each sample.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kingjohn View Post
    someone run them( snp) it look like.....( other forum)

    Y chr Haplogroup assignments:

    I7182 Yehud J2b
    I2189 Megiddo_MLBA_family4 R1a1a1:F3551/V8042/PF6231
    I2190 Megiddo_MLBA J2a1a1a2b2a1a:Z509/PF5155
    I2195 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2d2:FGC1677/Z2326
    I2198 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2d2b2F4849/Z1855
    I2201 Abel T1a1a1b2b2b1a1a2:CTS6280
    I3965 Hazor J1a2a1a2d2b2b2F4881/YSC0000235
    I3966 Hazor E1b1b1b2a1a:M34/PF2022/L797/Z1146/PF2016
    I4517 Megiddo_IA J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c2:S16807/S21060
    I4518 Megiddo_MLBA T1a1a1b2:CTS2214
    I4519 Megiddo_MLBA_family1 J2a1a1a2b2a1a:M92
    I4521 Megiddo_IBA J2b
    I4525 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2:AM01339/PF4826/Z1874
    I6461 Baqah_family6 J1a2a1a2d2b2bF4843/Z2324
    I6464 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c3:FGC63758/HU80
    I6566 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b1:FGC8223/V7510/Y3441
    I6569 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b:FGC8182/V5320/Y2920/FGC8185/ZS219/Y5761
    I6459 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b1c:FGC8224/Y3442
    I6460 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b:FGC8182/V5320/Y2920/FGC8185/ZS219/Y5761
    I3985 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b:FGC8185/ZS219/Y5761
    I3987 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b1:FGC8223/V7510/Y3441
    I3705 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b:FGC8182/V5320/Y2920/FGC8185/ZS219/Y5761
    I3706 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b1c:FGC8224/Y3442
    I3703 Baqah J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b1c:FGC8224/Y3442
    I6928 Yehud_low_coverage J2b
    I6923 Yehud J2b
    I7003 Yehud J2b
    I10093 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2d2b2bF4843/Z2324
    I10101 Megiddo_MLBA_family3 J1a2a1a258/PAGE8/PF4698/PAGES00008
    I10104 Megiddo_MLBA J1
    I10106 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2d2F4854/YSC0000183/Z2320
    I10264 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2d2b2:CTS11719/PF4863/Z1888
    I10266 Megiddo_MLBA J2a2a1a:Z28375
    I10268 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c2:S21060
    I10269 Megiddo_MLBA_low_coverage R
    I10359 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2d2:CTS2453/PF4806/Z2319/FGC1677/Z2326
    I10361 Megiddo_MLBA_family3 J1a2a1:AM01312/CTS4376/Z1861
    I8187 Megiddo_MLBA J1a2a1a2d2b2b2F4881/YSC0000235
    I8188 Megiddo_MLBA_family2 J1a2a1a2d2b:Z1853
    S10769.E1.L1 Megiddo_MLBA E1b1b1b2a1a:M34/PF2022/L797/Z1146/PF2016
    S10770.E1.L1 Megiddo_MLBA E1b1b1b2a1a1:L29/PAGE47/PAGES00047
    S10768.E1.L1 Megiddo_MLBA R1b1a1b:M269


    List of derived and ancestral snps for each sample.
    Are they sure about that R1a1a1? Somebody get lost? :)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Angela View Post
    Are they sure about that R1a1a1? Somebody get lost? :)
    no he probably arrived from the steppe ( according to davidski blog)

    The Megiddo samples, dated to 1600-1500 BCE, include a trio of interesting outliers with significant ancestry from the steppe. One of these individuals is a male, I2189, who belongs to Y-haplogroup R and probably R1a. So he might also be of Indo-Aryan origin.

    Another Megiddo male, S10768, belongs to R1b-M269 and probably shows a few per cent of steppe ancestry. I've already discussed how R1b and steppe ancestry may have ended up in the Bronze Age Near East in a couple of my previous posts


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