Genetic distance to Iron Age samples from the Volga-Oka interfluve 🇷🇺

These samples represent the Uralic speaking groups who inhabited Northwestern Russia prior to the Slavic expansion.

During the Middle Ages, Slavs would migrate into the region resulting in a gradual genetic turnover. Here are a few rough models to illustrate this.

The MA outlier samples are interesting as they appear to represent Turkic migrants

Here are the averages and the paper they were pulled from:

VolgaOka_IA,0.1156117,0.0313363,0.0932564,0.0880406,0.0019783,0.0164946,0.0109784,0.015362,-0.004821,-0.0413417,0.0141511,-0.0097199,0.0233186,0.000059,-0.013475,0.000909,0.0039487,-0.0006696,-0.003322,0.0025013,0.0039394,-0.0020491,0.0029577,-0.0046304,0.0004106
VolgaOka_MA1,0.1175222,0.0672788,0.0857952,0.0805078,0.0203882,0.018546,0.0094592,0.0128648,-0.0006645,-0.033395,0.0068608,-0.0133755,0.023637,0.014003,-0.0143185,-0.0001325,0.0082795,-0.005954,-0.000534,0.0051585,-0.0005925,-0.004575,0.0,-0.0053622,0.000898
VolgaOka_MA2,0.1225495,0.1067997,0.0654305,0.0540487,0.0284667,0.0209635,0.009126,0.010192,-0.0025223,-0.0119973,-0.0031395,-0.0044212,0.0093903,0.0120648,-0.0046597,0.0012597,0.0035203,-0.0026185,0.0056773,0.0020217,0.0037017,-0.0036477,0.002547,0.0015062,-0.0050695
VolgaOka_MA_o,0.070001,-0.178733,0.052797,0.007106,-0.0438545,-0.0110165,0.0047,0.0119995,-0.010942,-0.0073805,-0.0178625,-0.002173,0.00171,-0.0099775,0.0026465,0.002254,-0.0065845,0.002597,0.011753,0.0106925,-0.020713,-0.000804,-0.0109075,-0.0024705,-0.001497
VolgaOka_post-MA,0.1263436,0.103381,0.0755752,0.0648584,0.0326828,0.0194668,0.0061572,0.0141688,-0.0039268,-0.0246018,0.0022734,-0.0083328,0.0158178,0.0207812,-0.0093916,-0.0006366,-0.0001824,-0.0027618,0.0040476,0.0006504,-0.0032942,-0.0029924,0.0084548,-0.0017834,-0.0005268

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982222018267

Out of curiosity, decided to recreate my ancestral calculator for unscaled:

https://justpaste.it/bqp3u

Map of Eastern Hunter Gatherer admixture in Europe

Genetic distance to the proto-Indo-Iranian Sintashta culture

Genetic distance to the Yamnaya culture (average) 🐴

Coordinates:

Yamnaya,0.1189515,0.0849264,0.0402812,0.1119426,-0.0299098,0.045894,0.0022789,-0.0052175,-0.0563151,-0.0744053,-0.0008208,-0.000725,-0.002203,-0.0243233,0.0343424,0.0120765,-0.0044775,-0.0046782,-0.0030128,0.0095588,-0.0038774,0.0012151,0.0083413,0.0194192,-0.0039863

Genetic distance to the youngest sample with a fully Mesolithic European profile, VK531

For perspective, this SHG was contemporary with the late Battle Axe culture further south. He is also the earliest evidence of Y-DNA R1b in Norway, although he belonged to a different clade than the Indo European derived ones. It may be possible that this man’s tribe survived long enough to interact with the first Sámi migrants to Northern Scandinavia during the early Iron Age.

”Reconstruction” shown is a hypothetical Norwegian SHG (merging of WHG and EHG recons), as we don’t have a skull for this sample.

Coordinates:

Norway_North_LN_HG,0.126344,0.06804,0.157259,0.194124,0.035083,0.057451,-0.00235,-0.001846,0.003681,-0.070161,0.006983,-0.017834,0.032705,-0.03069,0.026601,0.031954,0.002347,-0.002787,-0.008045,0.027513,0.014849,0.013478,-0.003081,-0.053622,0.001197

Approximate admixture proportions of Northeast Europeans using G25

Caucasus hunter gatherers came into being
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DNA Estimate of Ancient Assyrians, made by my friend TheBeakerLady.

Part of an educational series featuring samples of ancient civilizations.

The first post of this series is of the only sample from Ancient Assyrian Empire. I included two breakdowns according to calculators by the talented Waters of Memory and the closest modern populations from the G25 database.

Made a few changes to my ancestral calculator again. Added in a more reliable ”pure steppe” Corded Ware average. Also expanded the Asian and African sections.

https://justpaste.it/cywld

Works a lot better now, share your results!

G25 model showing the relationships between different Paleolithic European groups

Ice Age Europeans descended from three different types of Aurignacians:

- Common West Eurasian, which is a ghost lineage that appears most similar to WHGs. This component likely stemmed from Aurignacian groups who lived in West or SW Asia.

- Proto-Gravettian, which is a lineage associated with Eastern European Aurignacians, such as the ones found at Sunghir and Kostenki.

- Goyet Q116_1-related ancestry, which represents Western European Aurignacians.

Here’s some background on the samples tested:

Gravettian represents the Vestonice cluster, who were the main population of the Gravettian culture. This culture was the result of Eastern European ”Proto-Gravettians” mostly replacing Goyet-related groups in Central and Eastern Europe.

Fournol was a regional variant of the Gravettian culture in SW Europe who largely retained the GoyetQ116-related ancestry.

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Epigravettian represents early WHGs, who replaced the last Gravettians in their Italian refuge during the LGM.

Magdalenian represents a population formed from Epigravettians mixing with Fournol-descended groups in Iberia. This was the first group to repopulate Europe after the LGM.

Oberkassel represents another WHG group, who migrated north from Italy and replaced the Magdalenians

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