Posted on 12/12/2021 2:58:25 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The genetic profiles of people associated with Funnelbeaker and Globular Amphora cultures show evidence of being recent migrants to the region. This finding shows that the period between arrival of agriculture and "steppe"-related ancestry, hitherto thought of as an uneventful period, was more dynamic than previously hypothesised...
...Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (~6,000-3,700 years ago)...
Individuals associated with the Corded Ware culture expanded from Eastern Europe and then assimilated preferentially central European women into their culture, giving them the same burial ritual as members of the immigrating group...
Once established, individuals of the Corded Ware culture (4,900-4,400 years ago) changed genetically through time. One important change seems to have been the sharp decline in Y-chromosome lineage diversity. Although initially carrying five different Y-lineages, later Corded Ware males carry almost exclusively only a single lineage, essentially being descended from the same man in the recent past. "This pattern may reflect the emergence of a new social structure or regulation of mating in which only a subset of men fathered the majority of offspring", says first author Luka Papac, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
This social structure seems to have been even stricter in the following Bell Beaker society (4,500-4,200 years ago) where every single male sampled belonged to a single, newly introduced Y-lineage. Remarkably, this Bell Beaker Y-lineage is never seen before in Bohemia, implying that a new clan arrived in the region and almost immediately replaced all pre-existing Y-lineages with not a single lineage from Corded Ware or previous societies found among Bell Beaker males.
(Excerpt) Read more at eurekalert.org ...
Very interesting. No doubt, he had a very big sword.
It’s luck of the, uh, draw.
All human history was/is very dynamic, even during what historically now seems like long “stable” or “static” periods. Human interaction has always happened on global scales.
” where every single male sampled belonged to a single, newly introduced Y-lineage. Remarkably, this Bell Beaker Y-lineage is never seen before in Bohemia, implying that a new clan arrived in the region and almost immediately replaced all pre-existing Y-lineages with not a single lineage from Corded Ware or previous societies found among Bell Beaker males.”
Raiders from the steppes swept in and killed the men and took the women and supplanted the existing culture, probably an agrarian culture. Something like This:
“We came out of the rising sun and soon the west was overrun
So great a train of us did past
The first knew nothing of the last
We forged along, we stormed along
We were victorious and strong!
The first would fall, the next would stand, the third was ready sword in hand
We did not stay, we came in haste, one seized a woman to his taste
One seized an oxen from a stall, where horses were we took them all....”
Goethe, song of the Western Man.
Barbarian invasions. I suspect that most of them are pretty much the same.
In the article it says that the Corded Ware were mainly R1a- (later says early Corded Ware Bohemia is R1a-M417). Corded Ware is from about 2900 B.C.
The Yamnaya ancestry is mainly R1b-Z2103. (Yamnaya culture of the steppe region north of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea is often identified as the culture of the Proto-Indo-European speakers.)
The Bell Beaker men (from c. 2500 B.C. on) are predominantly R1b-P312. But this decreases from 100% to about 20% in the "preclassical Unetice" period.
Lots of technical language. R1b is very common in the British Isles but the article says the Bohemian R1b and the English R1b cannot be descended one from the other but probably descend from a common ancestor somewhere in between, maybe in the Rhine River area.
I start reading this haplogroup stuff, and I really try to stay awake. I really do, but generally loose. They have to do a better job of explaining it to non- post doctoral genetics scientists.
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I start reading this haplogroup stuff, and I really try to stay awake. I really do, but generally loose. They have to do a better job of explaining it to non- post doctoral genetics scientists.
From this article, it's clear my Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherer ancestors ("I" haplogroup) didn't do a very good job of vetting the Anatolian Farmers and Steppe dwellers who invaded and overran Europe way back then.
Of course, climate change played a part. If not for the end of the Ice Age, the invaders wouldn't have wanted to invade.
quote “Raiders from the steppes swept in and killed the men and took the women and supplanted the existing culture, probably an agrarian culture”
yep, my thoughts exactly. The raiders were all from a common male lineage, swept in and killed all the men, and took the women for wives.
Where are my reparations?
Not sure who would pay you reparations since you are probably descended from those men! (You could seek reparations from North Africans for their incessant slaving raids in the Levant from 660 to 1450 or so! Good luck!)
“This pattern may reflect the emergence of a new social structure or regulation of mating in which only a subset of men fathered the majority of offspring”, says first author Luka Papac, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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This is where “the traveling salesman and the farmer’s daughters” thing started.
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