Most but not all Mesolithic mtDNA variation can be explained by the WHG and EHG categories. WHG population in the Balkans had a high frequency of mHG U8 while most other WHG populations had a low frequency or lacked it. WHG populations in Italy had a high frequency of U10 but this haplogroup is not found in most other WHG populations.
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U5 for sure comes from "WHG". U4 for sure comes from "ANE"
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Interestingly, Mesolithic Europe, in particular the Balkans, shared haplogroup U8 with Anatolian farmers who would later migrate into Europe. They even shared the same subclade U8b2a (K1) which originated in about 20,000 BP
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U8 was the most common haplogroup in Anatolian farmers
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U8 is probably connected to the so called WHG/Euro related ancestry present in Anatolian farmers
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Anatolian farmers also, at a low frequency, carried a yhaplo I2 clade that seems to have spread there from Europe in around 15,000 Bp
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This I2 clade today is common in armenia and Georgia. It is from a yet unrecognized migration from Balkans into the near east during the Paleolithic
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Mtdna K1 (U8b2a) in west Asia seems to also derive from this migration out of the balkans
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So yeah Anatolian farmers seem to have had minor "WHG" ancestry. One Anatolian even has mtdna U5b2 a typical WHG mtdna
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This is the Near Eastern I2 clade. It's estimated to have diverged in 13900 BP. https://www.yfull.com/tree/I-Y16419/
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One Anatolian farmer carries an early form of this.
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It's under I2c-L596 which is one of several I2 subclades. I2c has subclades in western Europe which diverged from this near Eastern subclade in about 14000 bp
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Here maptism seems to be saying the Flint Dagger culture in Scandinavia might not be a distinct culture but instead apart of the Bell Beaker culture. This would explain how R1b L151 spread to Scandinavia.
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Forwarded from Maptism Channel
Im unsure wheter or not to include SNI Flint Daggers as part of Bell Beaker. Flint Daggers are integral to the Beaker Package in Northern Germany, Netherlands and Great Brittain, however they also appear seperately from any Beaker pots or artefacts in Scandinavia as the Dagger Period. The Beakers in Jutland are only a Dutch Reflux influence as well. Flint Daggers are inspired by the Grande-Pressingy Daggers from Neolithic France and the Beaker Copper Daggers from the East Group.
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Bell beaker might be redefined as a culture that also existed in Scandinavia???
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