Maleth
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- Location
- Malta
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- EV13 A7136 y18675G+
- mtDNA haplogroup
- H
The arguments you've made can also be assessed for other M78 branches, so once more I fail to see what's so hard to understand about what I just said, the other M78 branches (which all have a significant time gap between their birth and that of M78) arose and emerged in Africa, and so this makes an African origin for E-V13 more likely than the scenario you speak of. Now as I said I could be wrong, we cannot know for sure judging from contemporary samples, we can only suspect, so we'll have to wait for archeogenetic confirmation of a given model.
Seems like there is a hole in the bucket dear Liza argument. You are acknowledging there is a significant gap between M78, and other mutations, at the same time you insist for this reason its more probable that EV13 was born were M78 was born. Are all know subgroups of a particular haplogroups known to be born in the same region where clades mutated up stream thousands of years after?
As far as the Natufian horizon is of concern, while it does harbour North African influences it mostly seems to be derived from the earlier Kebaran horizon which preceded it...
This does not exclude the same haplostructure amongst Natufians, after all we know that E's amongst others are one of the most popular Haplos amongst Jewish populations and also the Lebanese. Only by testing ancient DNA in these areas we can confirm their origins