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It all depends on which "steppe" samples were used in various papers and by internet enthusiasts in their "modeling".
I don't get all this "it's older than Yamna" stuff.
If Eurogenes is correct the CHG/Iran Neo like population that formed part of Yamna moved over the Caucasus in the Mesolithic. Or does not one remember that?
When does one get to be a "native" of a certain place, I wonder.
Also, just because some Yamna samples might not be a good choice for detecting admixture in northern Europeans around 3000 BCE doesn't mean that they might not be a good choice for detecting admixture in the Balkans or certainly in Greece, or, for all we know, certain migrations into other parts of Southern Europe. We'll have to wait and see.
I wonder if there might be something to the idea that the "new wave" that went into Spain carrying R1b didn't even speak an Indo-European language yet.