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Bronze Age Europeans aren’t the ancestors of modern day Europeans. Thanks to modern genetic research we know that they were largely exterminated by invaders a f
by User23 6y ago
Bronze Age Europeans aren’t the ancestors of modern day Europeans. Thanks to modern genetic research we know that they were largely exterminated by invaders a few thousand years ago, at least on the yDNA lineages.
- iguy 6y agoIt's true that they were replaced, almost completely in northern Europe. But the claim of TFA is that these skeletons date from after this Indo-European / Yamnaya arrival, and hence that it disproves the theory that lactase persistence arrived with them. Linguistically, I think we know they had cows but not agriculture, before migrating to Europe & India. (IIRC "cow" comes from PIE?) Which gave credence to the idea that they may have been lactose-tolerant. TFA is one study, so we will presumably eventually see whether this holds up with more data.
- bobbylarrybobby 6y agoDo you know where modern day Europeans came from? Who were these invaders?
- xyzzyz 6y agoYou can find answers to these questions in recent David Reich’s book.
- NegativeLatency 6y agoPossibly the celts and prior Indo-Europeans? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts
- Acrobatic_Road 6y agoIndo Europeans from pontic steppe and farmers from Anatolia. Northern europeans have more ancestry in the prior.
- Bayart 6y agoA variable ancestry of post-ice age hunter-gatherers, Neolithic Anatolian farmers and steppe invaders (ie. Indo-Europeans). The ratio varies depending on areas, but that mix is specifically European.
- ema 6y agoDidn't the bronce age end like three thousand years ago? It's my understanding that by that time the Indo-Europeans were already well established. Besides while they contributed a large fraction of the ancestry of contemporary Europeans a significant fraction of the ancestry is still from the middle eastern farmers which conquered Europe before them. Even if you only look at the Y chromosome, there is still quite a bit none R1 floating around.