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Originally when R1B was discovered, it was thought we R1b folks came from Western Europe because of how common our YDNA is there. They Archeogenetic, we have been able to trace R1B to the Southern Yamna Culture View attachment 12331
https://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_R1b_Y-DNA.shtml
R1b came from R1 and R1b arrived europe before proto-ındo-european. I think that R1b people spoke originally proto-basque like languages(not only proto basque but include relative or cousin of it). R1b descent from west or central asia and R1b go to west and central europe and spread own proto-basque like languages and this languages died after proto-indo-european expansion and only basque survive.
I rather think R1b-L23 is a solid candidate for Indo-Europeans. Even the Balkan IE groups like Thracians, Illyrians, Greeks were R1b-Z2103 carriers. Even the Anatolian ones. Likely the original Indo-Iranians as well before Indo-Europeanizing their distant R1a brothers.
I think the PIE dialect continuum was diverse from the start in overall genetic makeup and Y-DNA distribution. Some groups had more CHG:EHG ratio than others, some had mainly R1b-L23, some mainly R1a-M417. There were also minor lineages like Q1a, I2 and perhaps even some J2b. In my opinion the Indo-Europeanization of R1a clans and tribes happened well before the Indo-Iranian linguistic stage. That was already too late. It must've happened before when Late PIE hadn't even lost its appearance of an unbroken dialect continuum, with major differences only at the peripheries. I also think PIE was originally linked to mainly R1b tribes of the steppes, but R1a groups must've been inolved in the Indo-European expansion since well before the Indo-Iranians, at least from the period immediately preceding the CWC expansion into Northern Europe.
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