Angela
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J probably took place near the southern Levantine regions, G on the central Iranian plateau
J probably took place near the southern Levantine regions, G on the central Iranian plateau
Variance and phylogeny both indicate that y dna "J" originated in the northern near East, perhaps near the Taurus mountains. S
Even Wiki gets this one right. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_J-M267
See also, Chiaroni et al.2009
Chiaroni 2009 proposed that J-P58 (that they refer to as J1e) might have first dispersed during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period, "from a geographical zone, including northeast Syria, northern Iraq and eastern Turkey...)
Some clades, agriculturalists, remained, or moved with the Neolithic expansions into Europe, but the herders would have moved south and into more arid areas generally.
The specific clade in Arabia is younger and massively expanded after a founder effect.
Of course, there were then further migrations back north with the Islamic expansions.
See also, Chiaroni et al 2010, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2987219/
or even the genetics page here at Eupedia.