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    Thread: The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans
Post: RE: The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans

targaryen Wrote: (05-13-2024, 07:03 PM) -- Vinitharya Wrote: (05-13-2024, 12:30 PM) -- Anatolian from the east makes zero sense.  First of all, there are zero proven migrations of Indo-European peop...
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Ancient (aDNA) 288 21,659 05-15-2024, 01:20 AM
    Thread: Origin of the Brahui
Post: RE: Origin of the Brahui

szin Wrote: (04-30-2024, 10:25 PM) -- I'm personally led to believe that some ancestors of the Brahui were Dravidians who moved northwest and mixed with the local population, who retained the Brahui ...
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Southern 7 417 05-01-2024, 02:09 AM
    Thread: Uralic populations in the qpAdm models by Zeng et al. 2023
Post: RE: Uralic populations in the qpAdm models by Zeng...

I think the word "tends" is doing most of the work in that statement by the authors. As you pointed out and plenty of others have shown, there are definitely other East Asian ancestry sources in a num...
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Ancient (aDNA) 32 2,017 04-22-2024, 02:10 AM
    Thread: The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans
Post: RE: The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans

Jaska Wrote: (04-21-2024, 09:10 PM) -- Is it evidence for the western route? Is there Serednii Stih ancestry all the way through the Balkan? Not to my knowledge. In that case, the western route does ...
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Ancient (aDNA) 288 21,659 04-22-2024, 02:04 AM
    Thread: Steppe Ancestry in western Eurasia and the spread of the Germanic Languages
Post: RE: Steppe Ancestry in western Eurasia and the spr...

Here's a recent paper that provides some great climate context for the earlier time periods of the genomic study:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379123004390 (https://www.s...
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Ancient (aDNA) 398 35,525 03-28-2024, 03:36 PM
    Thread: Steppe Ancestry in western Eurasia and the spread of the Germanic Languages
Post: RE: Steppe Ancestry in western Eurasia and the spr...

I've been investigating the modelling behind the authors claim that the East Scandinavia 2800bp+ cluster is modelled with only Baltic HG ancestry in the supplements. If you go to Figure 6.3.1.6 in the...
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Ancient (aDNA) 398 35,525 03-22-2024, 01:23 PM
    Thread: Steppe Ancestry in western Eurasia and the spread of the Germanic Languages
Post: RE: Steppe Ancestry in western Eurasia and the spr...

I noticed there has not been extensive discussion yet on the historical context of the theoretical Pre-Proto-Germanic migration into Scandinavia from the Baltic ~2000BCE. What is the archeological ...
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Ancient (aDNA) 398 35,525 03-21-2024, 01:37 AM
    Thread: Steppe Ancestry in western Eurasia and the spread of the Germanic Languages
Post: RE: Steppe Ancestry in western Eurasia and the spr...

Anglesqueville Wrote: (03-15-2024, 07:51 AM) -- Awood Wrote: (03-15-2024, 01:32 AM) -- I didn't look at this closely, but it sounds like they are pushing the I1 + R1a battle ax as the root of proto-...
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Ancient (aDNA) 398 35,525 03-15-2024, 11:53 AM
    Thread: The first maternal genetic study of hunter-gatherers from Vietnam
Post: RE: The first maternal genetic study of hunter-gat...

Low quality paper, unfortunately. The two layer hypothesis has essentially been confirmed...in fact modern mainland SEA populations are more like a 3+ major layer mix. In chronological order: Hoabinhi...
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Ancient (aDNA) 5 483 02-24-2024, 03:52 PM
    Thread: The time and place of origin of South Caucasian languages
Post: RE: The time and place of origin of South Caucasia...

Putting the PIE section aside because at this point it's not worth commenting on, I'll say the authors got the Proto-Kartvelian history partially correct but with some major issues. The Colchis an...
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Linguistics 10 496 12-06-2023, 12:13 AM
    Thread: Locating Pre Proto Uralic
Post: RE: Locating Pre Proto Uralic

Queequeg Wrote: (11-29-2023, 03:24 PM) -- ph2ter Wrote: (11-29-2023, 09:30 AM) -- I don't know much about Proto-Uralic, but judging only from PCA it looks to me that Okunev culture is the source of ...
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Linguistics 43 2,254 11-29-2023, 05:39 PM
    Thread: Genetic continuity and change among the Indigenous peoples of California
Post: RE: Genetic continuity and change among the Indige...

Good to see more support for the recent Uto-Aztecan from the north hypothesis outlined in this paper: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/k598j/ (https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/k598j/)
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Ancient (aDNA) 4 455 11-27-2023, 08:11 PM
    Thread: Locating Pre Proto Uralic
Post: RE: Locating Pre Proto Uralic

I have to say I am still in favor of the earlier predecessor of PU being associated with Yakutia_LNBA people. The high proportion of Yakutia_LNBA type ancestry along with the strongly Uralic asso...
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Linguistics 43 2,254 11-26-2023, 10:33 PM
    Thread: Archaeological Evidence for "Transeurasian" Japonic and Koreanic
Post: Archaeological Evidence for "Transeurasian" Japoni...

The emergence of ‘Transeurasian’ language families in Northeast Asia as viewed from archaeological evidence Kazuo Miyamoto 2022 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10426040/ (https://ww...
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Archaeology (Prehistory) 0 96 11-26-2023, 09:41 PM
    Thread: Origin of the Brahui
Post: Origin of the Brahui

The Brahui people and their language have long posed a puzzle for scholars.  The Brahui language is classified as a Dravidian language, yet the Brahui people are isolated from any other Dravidian s...
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Southern 7 417 11-24-2023, 10:10 PM
    Thread: Proto-Indo-European and Indo-Anatolian
Post: RE: Proto-Indo-European and Indo-Anatolian

It has been continuously disappointing and frustrating to see the leading ancient DNA research groups insist on placing the Indo-Anatolian homeland in West Asia. Even the new term "Indo-Anatolian"...
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Linguistics 19 988 11-12-2023, 03:43 PM
    Thread: Prehistoric human migration between Sundaland and South Asia [ProBoards repost]
Post: RE: Prehistoric human migration between Sundaland ...

Jerome Wrote: (11-07-2023, 04:30 AM) -- Do you know if there was any hoabinhian migration to mainland south asia in the Mesolithic? -- There is some scattered archaeological evidence of Hoabinhian ...
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Southeastern 3 156 11-07-2023, 05:25 PM
    Thread: Zeng et al: Postglacial genomes from foragers across Northern Eurasia...
Post: RE: Zeng et al: Postglacial genomes from foragers ...

Kale Wrote: (10-09-2023, 05:17 PM) -- I do find the genetic transmission chain of Baikal_EN > Yakutia_MN/Saqqaq > 4500BC Canada & Athabaskans intruiging for Dene-Yeneseian though. -- Yes, I believe...
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Ancient (aDNA) 50 3,333 10-09-2023, 06:27 PM
    Thread: Minor Forum Issues
Post: RE: Minor Forum Issues

Is there a system for notifications when you have posts that are liked or quoted? I haven't noticed any in my user interface so far.
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Forum Support 83 4,244 10-09-2023, 03:58 PM
    Thread: Zeng et al: Postglacial genomes from foragers across Northern Eurasia...
Post: RE: Zeng et al: Postglacial genomes from foragers ...

Parastais Wrote: (10-08-2023, 07:49 PM) -- I think what Jaska is pushing for is Pre-Proto-Uralic from the East and Proto-Uralic from Upper Volga. If so - Yakutia_LNBA is Pre-Proto-Uralic and Yakutia...
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Ancient (aDNA) 50 3,333 10-08-2023, 08:59 PM