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7/1/2025, 1:24:27 PM
>>509207270
it's not directly arab or levantine, it's mostly from post bronze age Anatolia, which, however, got closer and closer to more eastern an southern populations via geneflow from caucasus-iran and levant in both directions
in Greece this non-ANF west Asian ancestry was already arriving in the bronze age, Minoans for example already were west Asian influenced, but it kept increasing with time and especially with the Roman empire a big pulse brought this kind of ancestry to the point of being dominant in center-south Italy(according to a preprint, also 25% in the north), which in the iron age was still largely dominated by ANF and 10-35% steppe(depending on the region, Sicani in iron age Sicily were very close to modern Sardinians)
PCA related should highlight the point, Bulgaria_N is ~100% EEF,
it's not directly arab or levantine, it's mostly from post bronze age Anatolia, which, however, got closer and closer to more eastern an southern populations via geneflow from caucasus-iran and levant in both directions
in Greece this non-ANF west Asian ancestry was already arriving in the bronze age, Minoans for example already were west Asian influenced, but it kept increasing with time and especially with the Roman empire a big pulse brought this kind of ancestry to the point of being dominant in center-south Italy(according to a preprint, also 25% in the north), which in the iron age was still largely dominated by ANF and 10-35% steppe(depending on the region, Sicani in iron age Sicily were very close to modern Sardinians)
PCA related should highlight the point, Bulgaria_N is ~100% EEF,
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