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I don't see any direct genetic relationship between Yamnaya, EHG and WSHG on the one hand and Native Americans on the other hand.
The only genetic relationship that exists is indirect and refers to the ANE (Afontova Gora 3 and Mal'ta) which is common to these four peoples. That's probably where the "Sky God" comes from. When East Asian populations mixed with ANE populations giving rise to Native American ancestors, Yamnaya, EHG and WSHG did not yet exist.
But that's what I said in a previous comment: CHG and Iran_N had ANE admixture, which makes sense when we see Reich mention that the Yamanya had two West Asian genetic inputs.
“If anyone can refute me—show me I’m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I’ll gladly change. It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book VI, 21
He says in the Bronze/Iron Age, there were two different people in Iran, a group who lived in Tepe Hissar and other ancient sites in the east who are called Eastern Iranian Farmers and another group who lived in Hasanlu and Hajji Firuz who are called Western Iranian Farmers, about the eastern group, more than 70 percent of their ancestry came from Neolithic site of Ganj Dareh but about the western one it is just 41 percent.
Some links between some Caucasus "autochtonous" languages with Veaconic has been evoked since long ago, even if in debate. OK.
My answer was that it is not on this site that I would try to find serious clues. That said, Basques (Euskaldunak?) are for the most Anatolian neo + WHG + low 'Steppe' but with a 'gedrosia-like' component which evoks to me an old component in 'Steppe' (rich in ANE?) not too close to the cousin 'Caucasus' (more recent more mixed?) component. It could prove a ancient element in 'steppe', not the more recent 'iranianlike' component more common in Eastern Mediterranea without 'steppe' and come surely about BA and IA;
I exclude nothing, but, if passed through South (not my bet) it passed very soon to western Mediterranea, at Neolithic. But we are not exactly on the topic here. On another side, a proto-Vasconic people in Iran increase again the non IE languages number in South Caucasus/Caspian and restrains the possible proto-IE space to find birth.
More than a family tree has been proposed even recently for IE sub-families. I 've nothing against the south-Caucasus hypothesis of Gambelidze; just the route taken by these families is still to be precised; I find curious the concept of anciently well formed Germanic group concerning language. I see rather Germanic as a convergence language. But I avow that a S >> N route East the Caspian had my favours sometime ago. I'm more in the dark now.
To me it looks like he favors the Dienekes Pontikos theory which is an area approximately surrounded by South Caucasus in the North, Anatolia in the West, Iran in the East, and Middle East in the South. In the location so called by Dienekes the Womb of Nations. Sandwiched between Proto-Kartvelians in the North and Proto-Semitics in the South.
Don't take the above encircled area too literally, i think if we shift somewhat more to North-East then we might get Reich's vision.
So I think PIE culture including PIE language seems to originate in ANE altai/baikal, not south caucasus. Especially sky God concept, sunhead and thunderbolt(snake) god, could originate in malta artifact of sun spiral deity and snake below:
In some indian's blog:
origin of hindu third eye culture(?)It is worth mentioning that the eminent scholar, Miles Poindexter, a former ambassador of the United States to Mexico, in his two-volume 1930s treatise “The Ayar-Incas” called the Maya civilization "unquestionably Hindu."
okunevo culture:
mayan rain god:
As mentioned before, yamna z2103 has mound grave/supine flexed culture same as american indian culture. That is totally different from EHG culture. Catacomb shaft and side chamber culture is same as ancient mexican tomb. Flat grave circled by stone of afanasievo is typical east steppe culture. Thoese z2103 people cannot be directly connected each other even if they have same Hg and admixture. Moreover it has nothing to do with caucasus culture. So it is a problem that CHG FROM CAUCASUS is connected directly to EHG FROM EAST EUROPE.
They’re Chalcolithic Hasanlu samples because the Iron Age Mede era samples were shown to have about 30% Turkmenistan-IA related and Turkmenistan-IA was shown to have about 60% Andronovo related https://eurasiandna.com/2659-2/
If you do the math 0.6x30%= 18% Andronovo Steppe related for Hasanlu-IA. Therefore must have EHG.I have full faith that Eurasian DNA’s numbers will be the most accurate just judging on how much more technical that site is than the other blogs
In addition to Reich's new genetic research, speaking of Proto-Semitic, I am now reminded of the similarities that exist between the word "seven" in most Indo-European languages and the corresponding word in Semitic languages, for example "seven" in English, "saba" in Arabic, " Shabbat" in Hebrew and "Sebati" in Amharic.
Not to mention of the question of the Hamito-Semitic Substratum in Insular Celtic.
Could this help to geographically locate the origin of archaic PIE?
"So I think PIE culture including PIE language seems to originate in ANE altai/baikal" - Well, culture is not necessarily the same as language. An example of this is that the Finns have an unmistakably European culture and their language is not Indo-European.
I didn't say CHG/Iran_N were directly related to EHG of East Europe, I said they had ANE admixture. Don't forget that ANE is not the same as EHG (ANE made a strong genetic contribution to EHG, but they were not the same people).
ANE = Upper Paleolithic Siberians.
CHG/Iran_N = Dzudzuana + ANE.
In any case, ANE could have made an initial linguistic contribution (in terms of vocabulary) to what would become archaic PIE in the future.
Link "Paleolithic DNA from the Caucasus reveals core of West Eurasian ancestry":
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/423079v1
Why did i ask moja if he can check if this paper found E cases
Thats because modern kurds do carry branches of E and they live in the exact areas which
Are the focus of this southern Arc paper.
So i expect some :
E-m84> pf6751, e-m84>y5435 and even e-v13
To show up to some extent at least in the most recent period chronologicaly ( iron age/ historical paper)
As I remembered, the reason of Reich’s claim that yamna people as a caucasus cline was speaking PIE is not only gene flow but also cultural flow from caucasus to pontic steppe.
Moreover I think he has a full confidence that yamna people migrated to south asia.
Archaeologically this migration has lots of big hurdles.
For example sintashta cannot have an origin in CWC and andronovo did not reach south asia. As for me, seima turbino is another big hurdle. Until 1,700bc, ST had bombarded east Europe like mongol. After that, chariot people trampled whole Europe with Apa sword of snake inscription (looks like vajra). Problem is the archaeological PIE culture of the chariot people has something to do with ST, not sintashta.
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Last edited by johen; 21-08-22 at 03:53.
I definitely think it's to the northeast of that.
This is the map for G/I:
One of the major things wrong with it, which was clear from the time of the Lazaridis paper on the Mycenaeans, is that it doesn't, imo, explain the "steppe, i.e.part EHG like" ancestry in said Mycenaeans, although Lazaridis himself left open the possibility of "Greeks from the east" a la the Drews formulation. Perhaps it could be explained through a different flow from the north.
Since the Reich Lab is still trying to work with Anthony, I doubt they'll go this far.
It also occurs to me to wonder if they found a sample in a Hittite context, and there's no "steppe" in it.
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I definitely think it's to the northeast of that.
This is the map for G/I:
One of the major things wrong with it, which was clear from the time of the Lazaridis paper on the Mycenaeans, is that it doesn't, imo, explain the "steppe, i.e.part EHG like" ancestry in said Mycenaeans, although Lazaridis himself left open the possibility of "Greeks from the east" a la the Drews formulation. Perhaps it could be explained through a different flow from the north.
Since the Reich Lab is still trying to work with Anthony, I doubt they'll go this far.
It also occurs to me to wonder if they found a sample in a Hittite context, and there's no "steppe" in it.
The oldest known city in Iran is Susa, ancient Greeks believed that their ancestors built this city, Herodotus called it "the city of Memnon".
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Originally Posted by Pribislav View Post
You should add Greeks as well, as it seems we'll get a couple of PF7562 samples from Mycenaean Pylos.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pylos
P.s
I guess this is a leak there is also a leak
About j2-L70 in another mycenaean individual
Originally Posted by Pribislav view post
By far the oldest ancient J2a-L70 is rumored to have been found in a Mycenaean sample from Troezen/Galatas on the Argolid Peninsula, we should get more details in a few days.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troezen
^^BINGO!
I predicted it.