Roman Imperial-era individuals from Histria

[rafc]

SCY197 might be from a later era because he couldn't be dated. 

In any case, SRR26291264 is closer  to west Balkan samples than to Scy197 or MJ-12, hence I don't think that it represents a local profile (although I don't consider scy197 to represent a local profile as well, but a west-central Balkan one):


SRR26291260 represents local Thracian and Greco-Anatolian ancestry.

SRR26291262 is an individual of East Med origin.

SRR26291258 originates from one of the steppe-derived groups which got there from Ukraine.

So we have MJ-12 from 992-830 BC, SCY192, SCY197, SCY300 and SCY305 dated to 400 - 200 BCE, and now SRR26291264 dated to the Roman imperial era. All have more or less the same profile. This profile is also comparable to some Bronze age profiles from the Western Balkans. So what is the most logical scenario:

(a) all of these are people from the Western Balkans, who are found near the Danube mouth. So by chance we never find locals, but always immigrants from the Western Balkans

(b) the locals of the Danube delta had comparable proportions of basic components (ANF, Steppe, ...) as locals from the BA Western Balkans, leading them to plot in the same area on a PCA (and to appear close in calculators).

[Riverman]

SCY197 might be from a later era because he couldn't be dated. 

In any case, SRR26291264 is closer  to west Balkan samples than to Scy197 or MJ-12, hence I don't think that it represents a local profile (although I don't consider scy197 to represent a local profile as well, but a west-central Balkan one):


SRR26291260 represents local Thracian and Greco-Anatolian ancestry.

SRR26291262 is an individual of East Med origin.

SRR26291258 originates from one of the steppe-derived groups which got there from Ukraine.

So we have MJ-12 from 992-830 BC, SCY192, SCY197, SCY300 and SCY305 dated to 400 - 200 BCE, and now SRR26291264 dated to the Roman imperial era. All have more or less the same profile. This profile is also comparable to some Bronze age profiles from the Western Balkans. So what is the most logical scenario:

(a) all of these are people from the Western Balkans, who are found near the Danube mouth. So by chance we never find locals, but always immigrants from the Western Balkans

(b) the locals of the Danube delta had comparable proportions of basic components (ANF, Steppe, ...) as locals from the BA Western Balkans, leading them to plot in the same area on a PCA (and to appear close in calculators).

If looking at the local Balkan IA people with a say North Thracian/Dacian profile, they are likely not very different from West Balkan people by that time and similar to the samples from Himera or Chotin Vekerzug E-V13.