After checking that 3 or 4 Y-DNA Iberian samples can't be adscribed with certainity to Bell Beakers (what about to use an scientific method?), I checked the Reich' lab fiasco for the Portuguese and French samples. For Portugal... I can't believe that the lab was not interested to know more about their Y-DNA Bell Beakers (they are capable to test 60 British BB but only one from the area where such culture popped up and spread...), even so it could be accepted that an individual found in a cave used from the Neolithic (hundreds of previously buried people there) with the presence of a BB pot which dates about such epoch was BB...
For SE France:
- Marlens (Savoy, herder country): individual buried inside an arranged crevice, mtDNA H, Y-DNA R1b, 20% steppe autosomal, a BB pot of (late) regional style was found
- La Fare (Alpes-Haute-Provence): individual with mtDNA K1c1 / Y-DNA unkown... it was buried with BB pots of mixed style (comb - cord impressions) as along with regional (late) pots.
- Villard's dolmen (Alpes-Haute-Provence), not far from Savoy and Aosta Valley. 25 people buried there from the BB epoch till Middle Bronze Age. Two samples from the BB epoch were mtDNA T2b3 (female) and the other mtDNA H1e, Y-DNA R1b-U152. The three samples from Alpes-Haute-Provence had some 55% steppe, similar then to their Central European colleages so.
I see some problems with the French / Alpine samples: they are somewhat late and being found in herder territories they could be herders that could have travelled a lot and mix with people afar, so mixing with people here and there or receiving migrations from other herding areas (like the German migrations south of the Alps in Aosta Valley or South Tirol). Being late samples a possible Iberian admixture would be diluted if there was one.
The Reich lab was not aware of BB remains in the Center and the West of the country... just only those near the eastern frontier and not far from the CW giant.
The other French samples are labeled as Central European as they were found in the Rhin bassin:
- Mondelange (near Luxembourg): 9 BB burials from a total of 22, the difference was by time or by migrants? no kurgans? in whichever case they found father and son: H / R1b, U5a2c3a / R1b
- Sierentz (Alsace): corded BB pots, two brothers buried with the same haplos: X2b4 / R1b, no kurgans?
- Hegenheim: a female in an individual burial, mtDNA H1+152, no kurgan ? females buried alone? what kind of steppe warriors did that? amazons?
- Rouffach: the same case as above, but mtDNA J1c4