I had a look at the map mentioned above* and noticed the gap between periods, more precisely the absence during the Bronze and Iron ages North of the Mediterranean. I guess it is the result of the cremation bias in sampling mentioned elsewhere...
Thank you for your detailed answer to my questions. I also get from your previous posts that cremation could be a major bias in the study of ancient populations.
With this thread, I was trying to put - at least temporarily - aside the ethnic interpretation, but I guess it is hard to do when avaiable data is scarce. Can someone confirm - or not - that the diffusion of E-V13 into R1a and R1b areas is much posterior to their split ?
I allow myself to start a new thread as I did not find one that was discussing the following.
Living DNA cites https://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_E1b1b_Y-DNA.shtml#V13_origins. On this page it is said, if I understand well, that, due to the specific distribution of this group in R1a and...
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