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Yamna = 35% ANE, 25% ENF, 5% SE (South Eurasian) and 35% WHG.
It was 50% EHG like and 50% Armenian/Georgian like (which includes a third of ANE).
They're supposed to be 50% "modern" Armenian like, yes? Is that how modern Armenians show up on those calculators that were done? I mean did they come out as one third ANE? I didn't think it was that high.
Anyway, color me skeptical about any of these calculators until we get an ancient ENF sample from the Near East. Even after extensive and sophisticated modeling the academics wouldn't put a precise figure on the ENF in EEF, so I'll wait for the exact number.
Not that it much matters, or that it changes the fact that the Samara Yamnaya were half Near Eastern. Unless we're going to see a reversal, and all of a sudden the Armenians are going to get honorary "European" status to make things all right? No wonder no one mentions the fact that according to the academic paper the Iraqi Jews are an even better fit!
Color me jaded and suspicious but I wonder sometimes if all this slicing and dicing is just to get that "foreign" component, in the eyes of some, as low as possible. It's like all that verbiage in the beginning about "hunter-gatherer" versus "farmer", when the farmers were hunter-gatherers too, until they figured out the whole plant and animal domestication thing. Also, of course, hunter-gatherers went to Europe from the Near East in prior eras, at least the WHG probably did from everything I know.
Maybe it's just that I remember posts on related matters on sites like Stormfront. After all there is always redemption, and leopards may perhaps change their spots, yes?