Bell Beaker ancestry in the Guanches confirmed.

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I missed this when it was first published.

The genomic history of the indigenous people of the Canary Islands (Serrano et al. 2023):

"considering the best-fitting model, the CIP [Guanche] ancestry can be explained as the admixture of Morocco_LN (73.3% ± 2.2%), Morocco_EN (6.9% ± 1.0%), Germany_BB (13.4% ± 1.8%) and Mota (6.4% ± 1.3%). ... Gran Canaria and Lanzarote have the highest Germany_BB contribution (16.2% ± 2.2% and 17.9% ± 3.3%, respectively)."

Supplementary information:

"Two indigenous individuals belong to the R-M269 haplogroup: one from Punta Azul (El Hierro) and one from Guayadeque (Gran Canaria). R-M269 is the most common haplogroup in Western Europe, although it is also found in North Africa in lower frequencies. When ancient individuals were further classified within R-M269, both showed derived SNPs on the branch clustering R-L11 individuals. Although the R-L11 lineage is commonly restricted to Western Europe, it was common in Early Bronze Age populations from Europe and could have reached North Africa with Bronze Age migrations from this region (as implied by the presence of Bell Beaker pottery). Analysis using pathPhynder confirmed previous results as both individuals were placed within the R-L11 branch of the R-M269 haplogroup (R1b1a2a1a)."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40198-w
 

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