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Interesting, thanks. I thought that the megaliths in NW Africa might be from the Bronze Age, but I wasn't sure. Do you know of any online sources that discuss their dates? I assume that Bronze Age here means around 2000 BC. This makes me wonder how much R1b-M269 there is in NW Africa. Your...

Sardinia currently appears to have the most diversity, although that may be due to the extensive sampling that's been done there. Yes, and the spread of the Megalithic culture from Iberia into Northwest Africa is the obvious pontential archeological correlate of the spread of R1b-V88, along...

SC2 and OC1 are reported to be R1 and R1b. The data for those samples is unaligned. I could align it, but it takes a very long time, so I'm probably not going to. It's not worth the effort. They're probably V88 or pre-V88, like SC1.

You both must be thinking of I1734, which is Mesolithic, not Neolithic. Yes, it was originally labeled R1b1a2, and now it's just labeled R1b1a(xR1b1a1a). So it's possibly V88 or pre-V88, and possibly not.

The early Neolithic Spanish sample I0410 is definitely V88. It's on the Y7777 branch of V88 that's ancestral to the Middle Eastern and African Y7771 branch, among others.

The Y-SNP calls for the Khvalynsk sample I0122 are here. He was R1b-V88 or pre-R1b-V88. Note that the positive call for the V88-equivalent SNP S5025 is reliable, while the three positive calls for P297-equivalent SNPs are not. The Y-SNP calls for the Mesolithic sample SC1 from the Iron Gates...

I would only say that they have Eastern European admixture. Later in same thread I linked to above, Wesolowski claimed, with zero evidence, that all of the ATP samples except for ATP9 "have exactly none" Eastern European admixture, and I responded by posting D-statistics and a PCA plot...

That idea originated with this comment by Richard Rocca on Anthrogenica, and I refuted it in this comment.

Good points. In my paper I mention that thousands of years of genetic drift could complicate the task of identifying the exact source of the European admixture in the Chinchorro sample.

I've written a paper on my discovery of European admixture in a Chinchorro mummy DNA sample, and it's now published on bioRxiv: European admixture in Chinchorro DNA

Then "most people" are wrong. If the Chinchorro sample just had the Mal'ta-related DNA found in all Amerindians, then: It would be located around pure Amerindians in PCA plots. It isn't. Instead it's shifted far away from them, in the direction of Caucasoids, and more specifically...

Table R81 on pages 531 and 532 of this document includes two mtDNA samples, 2NE and 3NE, that are said to be from a Solutrean layer in the Caves of Nerja, near the southern Mediterranean coast of Spain. Only parts of HVR-I were sequenced. 2NE was assigned to haplogroup J*. It has the mutation...

All the C in ancient European samples is C1, not C2. The TMRCA of C2b1a1-F3918 is 13,300 years ago, so it couldn't possibly be Solutrean.

You're talking nonsense. Kennewick Man is "scoring European & African admixtures" because the results posted by Tomenable are crap. No haplogroup X has been found in the many pre-Neolithic European mtDNA samples, which makes the probability that the X2a in Kennewick Man came from the...

First, I was the first person to ever show using DNA that all Amerindians are Mongoloid-Caucasoid hybrids, and I did so eight months before Willerslev and his associates took credit for "revealing" it in the 2014 paper that you mention, which was first published online in November 2013. I was...

Someone made a similar comment on the Anthrogenica thread. The Chinchorro mummies had brown and chestnut hair, and it's not clear what their skin color was. Only mummies from later Peruvian and Chilean cultures had blond and red hair and white skin.

I've posted the first of a series of high-resolution analyses of the European admixture in the Chinchorro sample on my blog: High-resolution K = 4 analysis of the European admixture in Chinchorro DNA If my belief about the source of the European admixture is correct, then the pattern of...

I've done some higher-resolution admixture analyses, and the only samples that have a pattern of Caucasoid components similar to the pattern in the Chinchorro sample are the pre-LGM European samples. So I currently think that the European admixture in the Chinchorro sample is from western...

In the two latest posts on my blog, I have confirmed my 2015 discovery that a Chinchorro DNA sample from Chile dated to 3972–3806 BC contains 30% European admixture: Principal component analysis confirms European admixture in Chinchorro DNA qpAdm analysis confirms European admixture in...

An absurd cherry-picked example. You must have spent some time looking for the darkest Spaniard you could find. The vast majority of Spaniards aren't that dark. Anybody can look at a map of human skin color and see that, cherry-picked extreme outliers aside, Peruvian Indians are much darker...