As we begin to super analyze the movements of T it appears clear that this haplogroup is associated with the Afro-Asiatic world and broader Near Eastern (Elamo-Dravidian family in it's absolute earliest forms).
The majority holders of haplogroup T in the world are under T-L208 which is quintessentially associated with Levant PPNB farmers ( a mix of Natufian and Anatolian farmer ancestry ) at its oldest origins. In fact the oldest Levantine PPNB man in the world was found under Haplogroup T in Ain Ghazal, Jordan (sample i1707). The man is on the broad T parent clade. T-L208 centralized in the Levant and its biggest branches went into North Africa during the African Humid Period (Green Sahara) alongside R1b-V88. This is why we find T-PF7455 in the Fulanis (18%), Chadians, Nubians, Berbers and Ancient Egyptians. T-PF7455 is seen as the Saharan Pastoralist lineage.
The 2023 paper " Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant " by Luciana G. Simoes states "During the Middle Neolithic a new ancestry from the Levant appears in the Maghreb, coinciding with the arrival of pastoralism in the region...This ancestry indicates new migrating groups, potentially associated with Sahara pastoralists, which admixed with local groups ", the Neolithic samples SKH002 and SKH003 were T-M70 haplogroup (T-PF7455) and it is clear they were South Levantine in origin with roots from Sinai, descended of a paternally-mediated migration unlike G2a who mostly introduced Anatolian farmer ancestry maternally with Y- chromosome replacement being rare, T-L208 shows mixing with local groups and paternal haplogroup replacement/integration.
T-L131, a sibling of T-L208 (also evolved in near east) took the opposite direction to Europe and joined many EEF early European farmers but is clearly not an indigenous line to Europe. .
The majority holders of haplogroup T in the world are under T-L208 which is quintessentially associated with Levant PPNB farmers ( a mix of Natufian and Anatolian farmer ancestry ) at its oldest origins. In fact the oldest Levantine PPNB man in the world was found under Haplogroup T in Ain Ghazal, Jordan (sample i1707). The man is on the broad T parent clade. T-L208 centralized in the Levant and its biggest branches went into North Africa during the African Humid Period (Green Sahara) alongside R1b-V88. This is why we find T-PF7455 in the Fulanis (18%), Chadians, Nubians, Berbers and Ancient Egyptians. T-PF7455 is seen as the Saharan Pastoralist lineage.
The 2023 paper " Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant " by Luciana G. Simoes states "During the Middle Neolithic a new ancestry from the Levant appears in the Maghreb, coinciding with the arrival of pastoralism in the region...This ancestry indicates new migrating groups, potentially associated with Sahara pastoralists, which admixed with local groups ", the Neolithic samples SKH002 and SKH003 were T-M70 haplogroup (T-PF7455) and it is clear they were South Levantine in origin with roots from Sinai, descended of a paternally-mediated migration unlike G2a who mostly introduced Anatolian farmer ancestry maternally with Y- chromosome replacement being rare, T-L208 shows mixing with local groups and paternal haplogroup replacement/integration.
T-L131, a sibling of T-L208 (also evolved in near east) took the opposite direction to Europe and joined many EEF early European farmers but is clearly not an indigenous line to Europe. .