DNA of Iberians from Europe

[Maciamo]

Sorry, I didn't have time to reply to this thread before.

To answer the OP's question, the Iron-age Iberians were mainly descended from the Mesolithic and Neolithic inhabitants of the Iberian peninsula, who belonged to I2a, G2a, E1b1b, J1, T1a and probably also J2. But I would expect to find also a considerable amount of R1b-S116 that arrived with Bronze Age invaders who lost their IE language (like in the Basque population).

 

[berun]

Iberians incinerated their deceased... so it's very difficult to get DNA from ashes; but luckly they inhumated their babes under their homes as i think did the Anatolian neolithic farmers, so from such cases it would be possible to extract quality DNA... but we might wait yet.

For ancient Iberian mtDNA we have:

Sampietro, M. L., Caramelli, D., Lao, O., Calafell, F.,
Comas, D., Lari, M., Agusti, B., Bertranpetit, J. &
Lalueza-Fox, C. 2005 The genetics of the pre-Roman
Iberian Peninsula: a mtDNA study of ancient Iberians.
Ann. Hum. Genet. 69, 535–548. (doi:10.1111/j.1529-
8817.2005.00194.x)

Palaeogenetic evidence supports a dual model
of Neolithic spreading into Europe
M. L. Sampietro1, O. Lao2, D. Caramelli3, M. Lari3, R. Pou4,
M. Martı´4, J. Bertranpetit1 and C. Lalueza-Fox

comparable results come to be more or less:

late neolithic - Iberians - medieval Catalonia
(11) (16) (24)

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]H 36 53 56[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]T 18 6 8[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]J 18 12 3[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]I1 9,1 - -[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]U 9 17 9[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]W 9 - 5 [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]K - 6 6[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]HV - 6 1[/FONT]


but it's to take into account that major differences are found in two articles related to modern Catalan mtDNA...

By the way I would like to know which fraction of such mtDNA might be of indoeuropean origin, because looking at such data seems like the "indoeuropean-R1b-males-that-lost-their-indoeuropean-language-for-Iberian" would be a only-males tribe...