Tug of war between Balto-Slavic and West Uralic (II)
It is firmly established since (at least) the 1980s that Balto-Slavic, Baltic and Slavic show a strong Uralic substrate, even though many details are still the subject of ongoing controversies. Here is...
View ArticleWest Yamnaya settlers like Early Bell Beakers: R1b-P310 and R1b-Z2103
Informal report by Bulgarian archaeologist Svetoslav Stamov in 7/8 TV, from data collected by the Reich Lab for their future paper on South-Eastern Europe. As can be seen from the TV captions below,...
View ArticleEast Slovakia Yamnaya settlers and links with Niche-Graves
Prehistoric populations did not set stable regional boundaries, but rather dynamic local ones in constant flow and change of interaction strategies. Semi-nomadic groups like the Yamnaya and early...
View ArticleProto-Indo-European kinship system and patrilineality
Within months, it will be finally confirmed that both Late Repin offshoots – Early Yamnaya and Afanasievo – spread with clans that were dominated by R1b-L23 patrilineages. Succeeding migration events,...
View ArticleThe complexities of 3rd millennium Steppe-related migrations
Open access paper Mobility and Social Change: Understanding the European Neolithic Period after the Archaeogenetic Revolution, by Martin Furholt, J. Archaeol. Res. (2021). Content under CC-BY license....
View ArticleRecent Yamnaya-related intrusion in a Denmark Late Neolithic burial
Open access Genomic Steppe ancestry in skeletons from the Neolithic Single Grave Culture in Denmark, by Egfjord et al. PLoS One (2021). Relevant excerpts (emphasis mine, content under CC-BY): Gjerrild...
View ArticleThe Last of the Single Gravers
The BAM files from Egfjord et al. (2021) are out, and Y-SNPs of two-year-old Nordic MN_LN/LN migrant Gjerrild 5 (ca. 2284-2035 calBC) were accurately reported, which means that the sample will need to...
View ArticleIBD sharing between Corded Ware and Yamnaya-related populations
Oral communication Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past by David Reich (March 3, 2021). I noticed this interesting slide called “Caught red-handed”, at approximately 45m 17s, where David...
View ArticleR1b-rich earliest Corded Ware, a Yamnaya-related vector of Indo-European...
New open source paper, Dynamic changes in genomic and social structures in third millennium BCE central Europe, by Papac et al., Science Advances (2021). Interesting excerpts (emphasis mine): We report...
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