what are your East Med and West Med component scores from Eurogenes K13 ?

[Vitruvius]

if i remember right, it might also additionaly be due to neoltihic levant and neolithic anatolia already both beeing largely dzudzuana derived populations, with dzudzuana beeing a mixture of basal eurasian and westeurasian. and later there was introgression from chg/neolithic iran into both populations too. there was also later neolithic levantine admixture into anatolia, but that was after the migration into europe happened. it happened before BA though so there definitely was neolithic levantine influence in BA anatolia. the thing which really differentiated early neolithic levant from early neolithic anatolia was i think around 10% ancient north african in the levant. otherwise these two populations were very similar already before anatolians moved down into the levant during bronze age.

Neolithic PPNB influence in anatolia was limited to the SE border region and not very significant. Almost all of CA/BA/IA Anatolia did not experience Levantine introgression, though it did instead experience a lot of bidirectional mixing from the Lake Van region with Proto-Armenian populations of the Armenian highlands, which is what chiefly separated post neolithic Anatolians from EEF derived populations such as Sardinians.

 

[gourd2]

Neolithic PPNB influence in anatolia was limited to the SE border region and not very significant. Almost all of CA/BA/IA Anatolia did not experience Levantine introgression, though it did instead experience a lot of bidirectional mixing from the Lake Van region with Proto-Armenian populations of the Armenian highlands, which is what chiefly separated post neolithic Anatolians from EEF derived populations such as Sardinians.

in this 2019 paper, "Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia", they find that later neolithic populations from anatolia have to be modeled with a neolithic levant source while this was not the case for the earlier neolithic anatolians.

and the later 2022 paper from Lazaridis, "Ancient DNA from Mesopotamia suggests distinct Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic migrations into Anatolia", suggests the same:

"When we attempted to model Neolithic pop-ulations as mixtures of each other, we observed that at least in Anatolia (Fig. 3D), where most of the data are from and from which both Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic populations have been published, an interesting distinction became clear. Pre-Pottery Neolithic populations from Central Anatolia can be modeled as mixtures of a group related to the local Pınarbaşı Epipaleolithic with variable (~30 to 70%) Mesopotamian admixture, suggesting that Pre-Pottery cultures of Anatolia may have been formed with the contribution of both local hunter-gatherers and migrants from the east, where agriculture first appeared. But we can not model the Pottery Neolithic Anatolians with just these two sources and instead require an extra ~6 to 23% Levantine Neolithic admixture. "

and i believe the pottery neolithic samples in this study are also from Barcin, which is located in northwestern turkey. so it seems neolithic levantine influence in late neolithic anatolia was not limited to southeastern Anatolia.

 

[Power]

regarding the levant thing : just look at your Natufian scores and you are set