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Western and Eastern hunters gatherers were different groups. Seemingly WHG immigrated from North Africa and spread through Western Europe and Eastern hunter gat
by ztrww 3y ago
Western and Eastern hunters gatherers were different groups. Seemingly WHG immigrated from North Africa and spread through Western Europe and Eastern hunter gathered came from northern Asia. Of course the two populations met and mixed in north Eastern Europe.
But at least on the male line steppe/Yamnaya/Indo European ancestry is dominant in the region especially compared to Western/Southern Europe where Early Neolithic Farmer ancestry is more prevalent (which is very low specifically in Estonia) so the descendants of hunter gatherer probably survived there much longer (however they weren’t exactly WHG in the first place)