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    Thread: The Origin of R1b-L21
Post: RE: The Origin of R1b-L21

ArmandoR1b Wrote: (Yesterday, 08:30 PM) -- rmstevens2 Wrote: (03-22-2024, 10:29 PM) -- GBVPK isn't in FTDNA Discover, even as R-DF27, which might be an indication that the sample doesn't have great ...
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R1b-L21 166 5,774 2 hours ago
    Thread: The Origin of R1b-L21
Post: RE: The Origin of R1b-L21

I don't know if I have mentioned this before or not, but Low Hauxley 70, the oldest L21 (DF13 really) British Beaker man thus far known (2464 - 2209 calBC), was buried facing north. That's unusual, be...
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rmstevens2
R1b-L21 166 5,774 9 hours ago
    Thread: R1b-L51 in Yamnaya: Lazaridis 2024
Post: RE: R1b-L51 in Yamnaya: Lazaridis 2024

Re the Basques, ancient Y-DNA results from the Basque Country that predate Beaker (i.e., before c. 2500 BC) show that I2a was the predominant Y haplogroup back then.  Here are three examples from L...
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rmstevens2
R1b-L51 409 14,710 10 hours ago
    Thread: Coming Soon: Y-DNA Haplogroups for Family Finder
Post: RE: Coming Soon: Y-DNA Haplogroups for Family Find...

My dad, who passed away back in 2018, originally tested with the Genographic Project, whose tests were done by FTDNA. He got an R-CTS2501 result via the Genographic Project, which is the equivalent of...
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rmstevens2
FTDNA 424 18,628 10 hours ago
    Thread: R1b-L51 in Yamnaya: Lazaridis 2024
Post: RE: R1b-L51 in Yamnaya: Lazaridis 2024

I dearly love the Papac et al Bohemian CW paper because it was an L151 and early CW breakthrough (not to mention a real breakthrough for U106), but there are a  couple of places where it missed the bo...
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rmstevens2
R1b-L51 409 14,710 05-16-2024, 09:17 PM
    Thread: R1a-M417 in Yamnaya?
Post: RE: R1a-M417 in Yamnaya?

Kale Wrote: (05-14-2024, 03:33 AM) -- targaryen Wrote: (05-13-2024, 08:22 PM) -- My point is that I don't think all the EEF in CW is from Ukraine/steppes. Some of it is local Polish GACs. -- Of co...
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rmstevens2
R1a 14 371 05-16-2024, 12:44 AM
    Thread: R1b-V1636
Post: RE: R1b-V1636

One thing to notice from the April 2024 Lazaridis et al spreadsheet is for sample I26303, where it says "I26303 (Yamnaya brother, sample I26230)". Those two samples are brothers, but what is confusing...
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rmstevens2
R1b-BY15337 3 142 05-14-2024, 12:51 AM
    Thread: R1b-V1636
Post: RE: R1b-V1636

Here is my V1636 Google spreadsheet. I updated the dating. "[C]alBC" indicates c14-dated stuff. Everything else was either dated from archaeological context or I could not determine how it was dated. ...
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rmstevens2
R1b-BY15337 3 142 05-14-2024, 12:37 AM
    Thread: R1a-M417 in Yamnaya?
Post: RE: R1a-M417 in Yamnaya?

I realize I am a little goofy in this regard, and that the MRCA shared by R1a and R1b was R1-M173 from about 22 kya, but I have always felt a certain kinship between R1a and R1b, because both are R1. ...
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rmstevens2
R1a 14 371 05-14-2024, 12:10 AM
    Thread: R1b-L51 in Yamnaya: Lazaridis 2024
Post: RE: R1b-L51 in Yamnaya: Lazaridis 2024

RBHeadge Wrote: (05-13-2024, 11:45 PM) -- What was the population of the Steppe circa 4th millennia BCE? Has anyone ever tried to quantify it? -- Our Y-DNA ggggggggggg . . . grandpa and his handful...
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R1b-L51 409 14,710 05-13-2024, 11:53 PM
    Thread: R1b-L51 in Yamnaya: Lazaridis 2024
Post: RE: R1b-L51 in Yamnaya: Lazaridis 2024

targaryen Wrote: (05-13-2024, 09:15 PM) -- rmstevens2 Wrote: (05-13-2024, 09:04 PM) -- It's frustrating how the ancient DNA research has gone. In some ways, it has been good. In 2017, the Olalde et ...
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R1b-L51 409 14,710 05-13-2024, 11:51 PM
    Thread: R1a-M417 in Yamnaya?
Post: RE: R1a-M417 in Yamnaya?

I'm surprised there are no R1a guys arguing against a Yamnaya origin. For awhile a couple of years ago, it seemed that everyone thought Corded Ware had a separate, non-Yamnaya, but related origin. It ...
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rmstevens2
R1a 14 371 05-13-2024, 11:44 PM
    Thread: R1b-L51 in Yamnaya: Lazaridis 2024
Post: RE: R1b-L51 in Yamnaya: Lazaridis 2024

It's frustrating how the ancient DNA research has gone. In some ways, it has been good. In 2017, the Olalde et al Beaker preprint appeared, which was the death knell for the old "We're all Basques" id...
rmstevens2
rmstevens2
R1b-L51 409 14,710 05-13-2024, 09:04 PM
    Thread: R1a-M417 in Yamnaya?
Post: RE: R1a-M417 in Yamnaya?

targaryen Wrote: (05-13-2024, 08:22 PM) -- My point is that I don't think all the EEF in CW is from Ukraine/steppes. Some of it is local Polish GACs. -- GAC moved down into Podolia in Ukraine. Anth...
rmstevens2
rmstevens2
R1a 14 371 05-13-2024, 08:30 PM
    Thread: Backyard Hobbies
Post: RE: Backyard Hobbies

There's one crow who visits our backyard who is the biggest of them all and bullies the others. After he chases a couple of them out of his way, he tolerates the rest and lets them eat. He puffs his f...
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rmstevens2
The Lounge 17 439 05-13-2024, 08:25 PM
    Thread: Coming Soon: Y-DNA Haplogroups for Family Finder
Post: RE: Coming Soon: Y-DNA Haplogroups for Family Find...

Mitchell-Atkins Wrote: (05-13-2024, 07:33 PM) -- On the bright side 710 AD is better than 2500 BC :-) -- Very true!
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FTDNA 424 18,628 05-13-2024, 08:14 PM
    Thread: R1a-M417 in Yamnaya?
Post: RE: R1a-M417 in Yamnaya?

targaryen Wrote: (05-13-2024, 08:10 PM) -- Kale Wrote: (05-13-2024, 05:35 PM) -- I suppose CWC came from a more Ukraine-Eneolithic rich subset of Yamnaya? A similar analogue would be Don Yamnaya, th...
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rmstevens2
R1a 14 371 05-13-2024, 08:14 PM
    Thread: Backyard Hobbies
Post: RE: Backyard Hobbies

My crows are starting to get braver, slowly but surely. Some of them will land in the backyard and start eating while I am still out there, a couple of them will even patiently eat while I get the ...
rmstevens2
rmstevens2
The Lounge 17 439 05-13-2024, 07:01 PM
    Thread: Beer!
Post: RE: Beer!

Not to discuss religion here, but I am an Eastern Orthodox Christian. That is relevant because our Lent ended not too long ago, and I did without alcoholic beverages throughout Lent. Actually, it was ...
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rmstevens2
The Lounge 101 3,255 05-13-2024, 06:55 PM
    Thread: Coming Soon: Y-DNA Haplogroups for Family Finder
Post: RE: Coming Soon: Y-DNA Haplogroups for Family Find...

Riverman Wrote: (05-13-2024, 06:48 PM) -- Honestly you have no reason to complain, because R-BY166 has a TMRCA of 710 AD! If I would have such a recent result from my matches, I might already hav...
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rmstevens2
FTDNA 424 18,628 05-13-2024, 06:50 PM