Thursday, May 16, 2019

The origin of Fennoscandinavian and Baltic N in Kola Peninsula? Part II

Soon after my previous post a new study dealt with the same question and published also new data, the study name and link here: The Arrival of Siberian Ancestry Connecting the Eastern Baltic to Uralic Speakers further East.  The study continued on the same theme as so many previous studies connecting the male haplogroup N1c1 with a putative southeastern Baltic Finnic home land, apparently thought to have been in Volga region.  I feel myself somehow embarrassed with this, because I have to be back with this issue so soon.  However, we have no evidences about such linguistic and genetic connection, because we don't know any Volgaic Bronze Age or Early Iron Age populations carrying N1c1, instead of it we know ancient Volgaic samples belonging to male haplogroups R1b, R1a and I2.   But we do have ancient N1c1 samples from the Kola Peninsula and present day N1c1 from the Ural mountain region.  On the contrary to the Volga idea my view is that the N1c1 came to Fennoscandiavia and Baltic regions via Northeastern route.  Without problems it can be demonstrated by using old and new samples from several studies.


The new data was downloaded from Estonian Biocentre.  I found some problems with samples names;  names in the study and data don't match and I was not able to identify all data samples, including two Tatar-like samples, but those samples are less important in this matter.

So the Saami-Finnish path shows an y-axis deviation which I consider as an unknown Fennoscandinavian hunter-gatherer ancestry.

Corresponding admixture analysis is under work and will be published soon. 

No comments:

Post a Comment

English preferred, because readers are international.

No more Anonymous posts.