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Genetic transitions in the Neolithic and Bronze Age at Mas d’en Boixos (Catalonia, Spain).

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Have you heard of this paper, which I knowed thanks to Bernard Secher blog free (in french)?
It seems confirming what we already know about Iberia of the time.
 
What we already knew is what I always repeat: that academics are illiterate with a tremendous taste for Reich’s mental jerk-offs.

Once again, they’ve used the Yamnaya from Samara, L51>>>> from 2800 BC, as if it were an L51* from 4000 BC, which puts it 2000 genetic years away from the Western-origin P312s. And they don’t mention that this ‘steppe’ marker was already present in Hispania since the Neolithic and Chalcolithic in G2 and I2, and in mt haplogroups like in this case with the Neolithic K1a4a1 from the study. To top it off, the term ‘Germany Bell Beaker’ to model Hispanic Bell Beakers in the PCA is a bad joke.
 
Please cite this article as: Roca-Rada, X., Cuesta-Aguirre, D.R., Vinueza-Espinosa, D.C., Davidson, R.,
Ravishankar, S., Taufik, L., Armentano, N., Esteve, X., Souilmi, Y., Teixeira, J.C., Malgosa, A., Llamas,
B., Santos, C., Genetic transitions in the Neolithic and Bronze Age at Mas d’en Boixos (Catalonia,
Spain), ISCIENCE (2025), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112871.


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What we already knew is what I always repeat: that academics are illiterate with a tremendous taste for Reich’s mental jerk-offs.

Once again, they’ve used the Yamnaya from Samara, L51>>>> from 2800 BC, as if it were an L51* from 4000 BC, which puts it 2000 genetic years away from the Western-origin P312s. And they don’t mention that this ‘steppe’ marker was already present in Hispania since the Neolithic and Chalcolithic in G2 and I2, and in mt haplogroups like in this case with the Neolithic K1a4a1 from the study. To top it off, the term ‘Germany Bell Beaker’ to model Hispanic Bell Beakers in the PCA is a bad joke.
Where have you seen a confimed L51 was present in Iberia since Neolithic??? Even P12???
I find this paper good enough. autosomes genealogic approach is always kind of proxi's use. What have you to reproach to the use of Germany BB? What would you put in its place? Iberian BB's? Too mixed. don't forget PCA's are good to give a ROUGH approach of distances, not by himself an analysis of the precise ancestral population in the process. You could use other pop's to make it, the admixture details (quantities and dates) will change, but not too much the position on PCA.
 
Where have you seen a confimed L51 was present in Iberia since Neolithic??? Even P12???
I find this paper good enough. autosomes genealogic approach is always kind of proxi's use. What have you to reproach to the use of Germany BB? What would you put in its place? Iberian BB's? Too mixed. don't forget PCA's are good to give a ROUGH approach of distances, not by himself an analysis of the precise ancestral population in the process. You could use other pop's to make it, the admixture details (quantities and dates) will change, but not too much the position on PCA.
The modeling used in the article indicates that 50% of the autosomes in the samples are derived from the German Bell Beaker, even though it has never been demonstrated that DF27 came from Germany.

The German Bell Beakers were mostly within U152>L2.

L2 is not a subclade originating in Central Europe. The issue with L2 is that it has 33 immediate branches dated to 2600 BC, which creates confusion about the original location of U152.

The branch that dominates Central Europe is L2>Z49, not L2*.

Pf6568, L2*, Z36, and Z56 are clearly Italic.

P312* has a high probability of having originated in Iberia, and U152 expanded with the first Bell Beaker waves between 2900–2600 BC.

That is why all ancient samples of U152>L2 need to add 5–15% Iberian ancestry for the German cases and 10–25% for the Italian and Austrian ones to be correctly modeled.
 
The modeling used in the article indicates that 50% of the autosomes in the samples are derived from the German Bell Beaker, even though it has never been demonstrated that DF27 came from Germany.

The German Bell Beakers were mostly within U152>L2.

L2 is not a subclade originating in Central Europe. The issue with L2 is that it has 33 immediate branches dated to 2600 BC, which creates confusion about the original location of U152.

The branch that dominates Central Europe is L2>Z49, not L2*.

Pf6568, L2*, Z36, and Z56 are clearly Italic.

P312* has a high probability of having originated in Iberia, and U152 expanded with the first Bell Beaker waves between 2900–2600 BC.

That is why all ancient samples of U152>L2 need to add 5–15% Iberian ancestry for the German cases and 10–25% for the Italian and Austrian ones to be correctly modeled.
You make big conclusions based on little, we don't know for sure concerning P312* but as a bet I doubt it was born in Iberia, ather in central Europe. The fact is first Iberian BB's had not Y-R1b at all.
Concerning the paper, they say if I recall well, that the majority of DF27 in these "Iberians could lead to think the increase of steppic-like autosomes was mediated through exogamy (females). I didn't see they say litteraly these DNA modification signify direct Germany BB introgression, rather something throught southern France.
 
Where have you seen a confimed L51 was present in Iberia since Neolithic??? Even P12???
I find this paper good enough. autosomes genealogic approach is always kind of proxi's use. What have you to reproach to the use of Germany BB? What would you put in its place? Iberian BB's? Too mixed. don't forget PCA's are good to give a ROUGH approach of distances, not by himself an analysis of the precise ancestral population in the process. You could use other pop's to make it, the admixture details (quantities and dates) will change, but not too much the position on PCA.
The steppe theory will go down in history as the most ridiculous ever told in archaeogenetics. Forget about that route—only those who mixed with the R1a of the Corded Ware had more than 30% steppe ancestry. What overwhelmingly spread was the Mediterranean-Atlantic blend, which infected like a virus over 50% of all Western Europe with P312* and mtDNA H1 and H3.

Currently, I base myself on the following points:

1 - Out of 100,000 modern samples catalogued in FTDNA as P312, the first two are Spanish, the third French, and the fourth Basque. (To top it off, Spain has six times fewer samples than countries like the UK, USA, or Germany).

2 - The oldest empirical proof of P312 is from El Hundido in Spain, dated to 2500-2600 BC.

3 - Spanish DF27 lineages are on average 1,000 years older than those of France and Central Europe.
Captura de Pantalla 2025-09-12 a las 21.20.16.jpeg


4 - In present-day Central Europe, the P312 variant does not exceed 10–15% in any country, and half of all that P312 is U152>L2>Z49.

5 - The steppe peoples domesticated the battle pony.

We Westerners domesticated the Thoroughbred.

The distribution of horse breeders’ haplogroups would be as follows:

Eastern horses:
P, D, and DB
Bred by R1a-Z93 and R1b-Z2103

Western horses:
Po, D, DA1, and DAC
Bred by R1b: P312,Pf7562,Z2109

DAC is the haplogroup of all modern Thoroughbreds.
Captura de Pantalla 2025-09-25 a las 20.31.30.png

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Current Y-haplogroup rates in horses:


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Horses DA1 and DAC replaced all battle ponies after 1200 BC.

Any one of those five points is stronger than the 15 years of the “space Yamnayas” that only ever existed in the sexual fantasies of Reich and Hitler.
 
The steppe theory will go down in history as the most ridiculous ever told in archaeogenetics. Forget about that route—only those who mixed with the R1a of the Corded Ware had more than 30% steppe ancestry. What overwhelmingly spread was the Mediterranean-Atlantic blend, which infected like a virus over 50% of all Western Europe with P312* and mtDNA H1 and H3.

Currently, I base myself on the following points:

1 - Out of 100,000 modern samples catalogued in FTDNA as P312, the first two are Spanish, the third French, and the fourth Basque. (To top it off, Spain has six times fewer samples than countries like the UK, USA, or Germany).

2 - The oldest empirical proof of P312 is from El Hundido in Spain, dated to 2500-2600 BC.

3 - Spanish DF27 lineages are on average 1,000 years older than those of France and Central Europe.
View attachment 18738

4 - In present-day Central Europe, the P312 variant does not exceed 10–15% in any country, and half of all that P312 is U152>L2>Z49.

5 - The steppe peoples domesticated the battle pony.

We Westerners domesticated the Thoroughbred.

The distribution of horse breeders’ haplogroups would be as follows:

Eastern horses:
P, D, and DB
Bred by R1a-Z93 and R1b-Z2103

Western horses:
Po, D, DA1, and DAC
Bred by R1b: P312,Pf7562,Z2109

DAC is the haplogroup of all modern Thoroughbreds.
View attachment 18736
View attachment 18737
Current Y-haplogroup rates in horses:


View attachment 18739
Horses DA1 and DAC replaced all battle ponies after 1200 BC.

Any one of those five points is stronger than the 15 years of the “space Yamnayas” that only ever existed in the sexual fantasies of Reich and Hitler.
- Do read what I write: I never said DF27 originated in Germany nor around it - Nor does the paper BTW!
- The massive introduction of steppe autoDNA is not a dream and it 's clear that it came from East first, and in West, from Northeast -
it's a fact. After the question is, with whom? What Y-haplo' send it. Here OK we may discuss -
- You say: [1 - Out of 100,000 modern samples catalogued in FTDNA as P312, the first two are Spanish, the third French, and the fourth Basque. (To top it off, Spain has six times fewer samples than countries like the UK, USA, or Germany).]
What does it mean ?!? What is the point?
- You say: [The oldest empirical proof of P312 is from El Hundido in Spain, dated to 2500-2600 BC.]
When have been found the first P312 elswhere in Europe? I avow I don't know. ONE unique first apparition is so important? is there a big time hole between it and first P312 elsewhere? I 'll glad if I have an answer, (without joke here).
- As awhole the first P312 people in West had a good charge of steppic autoDNA -
- Horses or oxes are not people.
This question is not so simple, so let's try to be cautious and not too affirmative -
 
- Do read what I write: I never said DF27 originated in Germany nor around it - Nor does the paper BTW!
- The massive introduction of steppe autoDNA is not a dream and it 's clear that it came from East first, and in West, from Northeast -
it's a fact. After the question is, with whom? What Y-haplo' send it. Here OK we may discuss -
- You say: [1 - Out of 100,000 modern samples catalogued in FTDNA as P312, the first two are Spanish, the third French, and the fourth Basque. (To top it off, Spain has six times fewer samples than countries like the UK, USA, or Germany).]
What does it mean ?!? What is the point?
- You say: [The oldest empirical proof of P312 is from El Hundido in Spain, dated to 2500-2600 BC.]
When have been found the first P312 elswhere in Europe? I avow I don't know. ONE unique first apparition is so important? is there a big time hole between it and first P312 elsewhere? I 'll glad if I have an answer, (without joke here).
- As awhole the first P312 people in West had a good charge of steppic autoDNA -
- Horses or oxes are not people.
This question is not so simple, so let's try to be cautious and not too affirmative -

- Do read what I write: I never said DF27 originated in Germany nor around it - Nor does the paper BTW!
- The massive introduction of steppe autoDNA is not a dream and it 's clear that it came from East first, and in West, from Northeast -
it's a fact. After the question is, with whom? What Y-haplo' send it. Here OK we may discuss -
- You say: [1 - Out of 100,000 modern samples catalogued in FTDNA as P312, the first two are Spanish, the third French, and the fourth Basque. (To top it off, Spain has six times fewer samples than countries like the UK, USA, or Germany).]
What does it mean ?!? What is the point?
- You say: [The oldest empirical proof of P312 is from El Hundido in Spain, dated to 2500-2600 BC.]
When have been found the first P312 elswhere in Europe? I avow I don't know. ONE unique first apparition is so important? is there a big time hole between it and first P312 elsewhere? I 'll glad if I have an answer, (without joke here).
- As awhole the first P312 people in West had a good charge of steppic autoDNA -
- Horses or oxes are not people.
This question is not so simple, so let's try to be cautious and not too affirmative -

I’m not saying that you said DF27 was born in Germany, I simply don’t understand what you base the claim on that P312* was.

The article does indirectly state that the Iberian Bell Beakers are derived from the German Bell Beakers, by the way they are placed in the graphs. In 2015 it was logical to think that they arrived from Germany and replaced I2-M26, but ten years later it no longer makes sense.

I’ve read in several places that, since the Iberian Bell Beaker samples from between 3300–2900 BC gave I2-M26, P312* could not have been native to Iberia…

For those who don’t know, from the Bell Beaker area of Iberia only a handful of samples have been analyzed. There are around 60 sites still unstudied, ranging from 3300 BC to 2500 BC:
Captura de Pantalla 2025-09-21 a las 5.05.17.png




IMG_9077.jpeg

This “expansion” in the year 2025 makes no sense, but since this field always lags about 5 years behind reality, you can still find thousands of YouTube videos that mention “space Yamnayas.”

For me, personally, based on current data, this is what happened:
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Going back to what you asked me: the fact that the oldest P312* carriers today are in Spain seems to me the most revealing data, because the larger the sample size, the greater the probability that someone with P312* will appear further away. Each person with that same mutation carries it at different time depths.

That L151* was born around 3000 BC is simply an estimate based on the average of FTDNA data or whichever company. I carry the L151* mutation, which goes back to 4000 BC.

To know the real dates, you need to find people with the oldest mutations.

Averaging doesn’t tell you when the first one appeared. This happens with all subclades: the larger the sample, the more reliable the average. But using samples from the wrong region can change everything significantly and it could turn out that the Iberian DF27s are on average a thousand years older than the French ones.

From ancient samples between 2900–2600 BC I only know of the L151 in Bohemia with an autosomal profile of U106; they are not the same line as P312*.

The same thing happens with the Z198* from El Argar, which are extinct (probably replaced by other Z198*). Today there are no people detected who descend from those specific lines. That’s why their terminal mutations cannot be “read.” And being around 2000 BC, you can only read down to Z198 from 2550 BC and one more, FTC605 (with no continuity today).

Most of the bottleneck is due to the fact that around 2600 BC, 3 branches consolidated about 30 sub-branches each. With just ZZ12, L2 and Z34589 we already have 100 P312 branches.

If we add them all up we easily reach 200 consolidated branches in less than half a century. There is not a single haplogroup that even comes close in reproductive success. P312 is more like a macro-haplogroup than a subclade.

The “contamination” and “low coverage” excuse is the recurrent line used by academics to cover up the issue so that people don’t ask too many questions. In reality, it all comes down to Y-chromosome mutations, either catalogued or not yet catalogued; it’s not that “they can’t be read” or that the samples are contaminated. Coverage, when it really is a problem, mainly affects autosomal analysis. In the Y chromosome, once you have more than 5–10% coverage, the mutations that are there, are there; and those that aren’t don’t appear because they are not catalogued (extinct).

The classification software, when it encounters uncatalogued intermediate branches, offers several possible options, but no clear path, because these are subclades whose terminal mutation belonged to lineages now extinct.

The colorful charts are just so that laypeople can get an idea of what is being explained, but I don’t know if you realize how imprecise they are. Many models mention this, but often they only explain 60–80% of the autosome.

Admixture analysis will only start being solid when we have, I don’t know, 10 times more ancient samples from between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Until then, we can’t build really reliable autosomal mixes. But for them to use only 3 Neolithic biases for samples later than the Bronze Age, like in the article of this thread, is ridiculous—it looks like something done by grade-school children.

As for the steppe autosomal part…

I honestly don’t understand how so much importance could have been given to an autosomal mix that is basically founded and welded together by centuries of endogamy of the R1a lines between 10,000–4000 BC.

The Yamnaya Z2103 had 40% steppe, the CW R1a 35–40%, the Iberians 25% in the north and 20% in the south in the Argar zone, the PF7562 and Z2103 from the Balkans 20–25%.

The German Bell Beakers are the result of southern Bell Beakers who migrated north, mixed with CW women, and ended up with 30% steppe. All those clans were practicing female exchange, and with time we’ll know more specifically which groups with which.

It is by no means reliable to make speculations with autosomal mixtures without checking the Y haplogroups of present-day populations.

With horses, the exact same thing happened as with humans: instead of focusing on the Y chromosome, which is the ONLY thing that matters in archaeogenetics, people have been daydreaming about that damned “orange autosomal mix” and… bang, in your face.

Neither the Z93 nor the Z2103 steppe groups domesticated the horse in 2200 BC; the P310 did it around 4000 BC near present-day Romania. That is the oldest specimen with 50% DOM2 and with the haplogroup in direct line to today’s D>DA1>DAC.

A little-known detail on the subject: the IBE horse only went extinct autosomally. The po* haplogroup prior to the Przewalski still appears in Spanish horses (we have more than 18 breeds).
 
I’m not saying that you said DF27 was born in Germany, I simply don’t understand what you base the claim on that P312* was.

The article does indirectly state that the Iberian Bell Beakers are derived from the German Bell Beakers, by the way they are placed in the graphs. In 2015 it was logical to think that they arrived from Germany and replaced I2-M26, but ten years later it no longer makes sense.

I’ve read in several places that, since the Iberian Bell Beaker samples from between 3300–2900 BC gave I2-M26, P312* could not have been native to Iberia…

For those who don’t know, from the Bell Beaker area of Iberia only a handful of samples have been analyzed. There are around 60 sites still unstudied, ranging from 3300 BC to 2500 BC:
View attachment 18760



View attachment 18756
This “expansion” in the year 2025 makes no sense, but since this field always lags about 5 years behind reality, you can still find thousands of YouTube videos that mention “space Yamnayas.”

For me, personally, based on current data, this is what happened:
View attachment 18757
View attachment 18759


Going back to what you asked me: the fact that the oldest P312* carriers today are in Spain seems to me the most revealing data, because the larger the sample size, the greater the probability that someone with P312* will appear further away. Each person with that same mutation carries it at different time depths.

That L151* was born around 3000 BC is simply an estimate based on the average of FTDNA data or whichever company. I carry the L151* mutation, which goes back to 4000 BC.

To know the real dates, you need to find people with the oldest mutations.

Averaging doesn’t tell you when the first one appeared. This happens with all subclades: the larger the sample, the more reliable the average. But using samples from the wrong region can change everything significantly and it could turn out that the Iberian DF27s are on average a thousand years older than the French ones.

From ancient samples between 2900–2600 BC I only know of the L151 in Bohemia with an autosomal profile of U106; they are not the same line as P312*.

The same thing happens with the Z198* from El Argar, which are extinct (probably replaced by other Z198*). Today there are no people detected who descend from those specific lines. That’s why their terminal mutations cannot be “read.” And being around 2000 BC, you can only read down to Z198 from 2550 BC and one more, FTC605 (with no continuity today).

Most of the bottleneck is due to the fact that around 2600 BC, 3 branches consolidated about 30 sub-branches each. With just ZZ12, L2 and Z34589 we already have 100 P312 branches.

If we add them all up we easily reach 200 consolidated branches in less than half a century. There is not a single haplogroup that even comes close in reproductive success. P312 is more like a macro-haplogroup than a subclade.

The “contamination” and “low coverage” excuse is the recurrent line used by academics to cover up the issue so that people don’t ask too many questions. In reality, it all comes down to Y-chromosome mutations, either catalogued or not yet catalogued; it’s not that “they can’t be read” or that the samples are contaminated. Coverage, when it really is a problem, mainly affects autosomal analysis. In the Y chromosome, once you have more than 5–10% coverage, the mutations that are there, are there; and those that aren’t don’t appear because they are not catalogued (extinct).

The classification software, when it encounters uncatalogued intermediate branches, offers several possible options, but no clear path, because these are subclades whose terminal mutation belonged to lineages now extinct.

The colorful charts are just so that laypeople can get an idea of what is being explained, but I don’t know if you realize how imprecise they are. Many models mention this, but often they only explain 60–80% of the autosome.

Admixture analysis will only start being solid when we have, I don’t know, 10 times more ancient samples from between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Until then, we can’t build really reliable autosomal mixes. But for them to use only 3 Neolithic biases for samples later than the Bronze Age, like in the article of this thread, is ridiculous—it looks like something done by grade-school children.

As for the steppe autosomal part…

I honestly don’t understand how so much importance could have been given to an autosomal mix that is basically founded and welded together by centuries of endogamy of the R1a lines between 10,000–4000 BC.

The Yamnaya Z2103 had 40% steppe, the CW R1a 35–40%, the Iberians 25% in the north and 20% in the south in the Argar zone, the PF7562 and Z2103 from the Balkans 20–25%.

The German Bell Beakers are the result of southern Bell Beakers who migrated north, mixed with CW women, and ended up with 30% steppe. All those clans were practicing female exchange, and with time we’ll know more specifically which groups with which.

It is by no means reliable to make speculations with autosomal mixtures without checking the Y haplogroups of present-day populations.

With horses, the exact same thing happened as with humans: instead of focusing on the Y chromosome, which is the ONLY thing that matters in archaeogenetics, people have been daydreaming about that damned “orange autosomal mix” and… bang, in your face.

Neither the Z93 nor the Z2103 steppe groups domesticated the horse in 2200 BC; the P310 did it around 4000 BC near present-day Romania. That is the oldest specimen with 50% DOM2 and with the haplogroup in direct line to today’s D>DA1>DAC.

A little-known detail on the subject: the IBE horse only went extinct autosomally. The po* haplogroup prior to the Przewalski still appears in Spanish horses (we have more than 18 breeds).
Thanks for an elaborated post. But I 'll send you some thoughts and questions too.
 
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The Yamnaya Z2103 had 40% steppe, the CW R1a 35–40%, the Iberians 25% in the north and 20% in the south in the Argar zone, the PF7562 and Z2103 from the Balkans 20–25%.

The German Bell Beakers are the result of southern Bell Beakers who migrated north, mixed with CW women, and ended up with 30% steppe. All those clans were practicing female exchange, and with time we’ll know more specifically which groups with which.

It is by no means reliable to make speculations with autosomal mixtures without checking the Y haplogroups of present-day populations.
 
@BoNe > you say:

1- The Yamnaya Z2103 had 40% steppe, the CW R1a 35–40%, the Iberians 25% in the north and 20% in the south in the Argar zone, the PF7562 and Z2103 from the Balkans 20–25%.

2- The German Bell Beakers are the result of southern Bell Beakers who migrated north, mixed with CW women, and ended up with 30% steppe. All those clans were practicing female exchange, and with time we’ll know more specifically which groups with which.

3- It is by no means reliable to make speculations with autosomal mixtures without checking the Y haplogroups of present-day populations.

my answer:
1- The Germany CWC had far more than 40% 'steppe' (rather 70% for the most of their dwellings), even the Switzerland CWC had more than 40% even mixed, and North BB's were first around 50% 'steppe' or a little more spite they were there fuly Y-R-P312 - for the North did you not confuse with 'steppe' internal admixture of EHG and Caucasus/Iranlike?
2- Females exchanges? OK. The fact is they rather lost their 'steppe' with them when they stayed overwhelmingly R-P312 so? It's not with all these mixings they acquired more 'steppe' even if they had also still 'steppe' or 'steppe' acquired/transmitted mt's.
3- Every tool can be useful, OK concerning nevertheless the importance of uniparental haplo's the Y-haplo' s even more.
 
@BoNe > you say:

1- The Yamnaya Z2103 had 40% steppe, the CW R1a 35–40%, the Iberians 25% in the north and 20% in the south in the Argar zone, the PF7562 and Z2103 from the Balkans 20–25%.

2- The German Bell Beakers are the result of southern Bell Beakers who migrated north, mixed with CW women, and ended up with 30% steppe. All those clans were practicing female exchange, and with time we’ll know more specifically which groups with which.

3- It is by no means reliable to make speculations with autosomal mixtures without checking the Y haplogroups of present-day populations.

my answer:
1- The Germany CWC had far more than 40% 'steppe' (rather 70% for the most of their dwellings), even the Switzerland CWC had more than 40% even mixed, and North BB's were first around 50% 'steppe' or a little more spite they were there fuly Y-R-P312 - for the North did you not confuse with 'steppe' internal admixture of EHG and Caucasus/Iranlike?
2- Females exchanges? OK. The fact is they rather lost their 'steppe' with them when they stayed overwhelmingly R-P312 so? It's not with all these mixings they acquired more 'steppe' even if they had also still 'steppe' or 'steppe' acquired/transmitted mt's.
3- Every tool can be useful, OK concerning nevertheless the importance of uniparental haplo's the Y-haplo' s even more.
 
@BoNe > dices:

1- El Yamnaya Z2103 tenía un 40% de estepa, el CW R1a un 35-40%, los ibéricos un 25% en el norte y un 20% en el sur en la zona de Argar, el PF7562 y el Z2103 de los Balcanes un 20-25%.

2- Los Campaniformes Alemanes son el resultado de la migración hacia el norte de los Campaniformes del sur, quienes se mezclaron con mujeres de la cultura CW y terminaron con un 30% de población esteparia. Todos estos clanes practicaban el intercambio de mujeres, y con el tiempo sabremos con mayor precisión qué grupos se mezclaban con cuáles.

3- De ninguna manera es confiable hacer especulaciones con mezclas autosómicas sin verificar los haplogrupos Y de las poblaciones actuales.

mi respuesta:
1- La CWC alemana tenía mucho más del 40% de 'estepa' (más bien el 70% en la mayoría de sus viviendas), incluso la CWC suiza tenía más del 40%, incluso mixta, y las BB del norte eran al principio alrededor del 50% de 'estepa' o un poco más, a pesar de que estaban allí completamente YR-P312 - para el norte, ¿no confundiste con 'estepa' la mezcla interna de EHG y caucásica/iraní?
2- ¿Intercambios entre hembras? De acuerdo. El hecho es que, al quedarse mayoritariamente con el genotipo R-P312, perdieron parte de su herencia esteparia. No es que con todas estas mezclas adquirieran más herencia esteparia, incluso si ya la tenían o si habían adquirido/transmitido mutaciones de la herencia esteparia.
3- Toda herramienta puede ser útil, aunque en lo que respecta a la importancia de los haplotipos uniparentales, los haplotipos Y aún más.

The percentages of “steppe” are, in most cases, misinterpreted; it’s a very archaic and broad term, nothing precise.

That modeling was created in reference to the L51* specimen from 2800 BC in Samara from the 2018 Bell Beakers article.

There are no populations with more than 40% “steppe”; the 70% that many repeat is over that 40%, a lot of people distort that data due to lack of real knowledge of the context or because of biased narratives.

Autosomal modeling is useless on a large scale in almost all academic articles; if a sample has 15% base coverage and the modeling only reads 70% of that 15%, at the end of the day, what the **** have we been doing? Exactly, mental masturbation; you take a known percentage and maximize it over the 90% you don’t know, and space Yamnayas appear.

All articles should have an extra with several different modelings, not one based on the previous 5 paywalled articles.

Modelings based on only 200 samples in a very short time become outdated; 10 years after their creation, they only lead to a distorted understanding of a past reality.

Year 2025 and we still don’t know what an Iron Age Greek is, but those who have worked on compiling the unpublished samples… neither do they, because they’re useless who don’t know how to refine BAM files; basically, they prevent mortals who do know how to look at it from doing so for 5-10 years, that’s why nothing ever leaks in this field.

People call leaks when they make BAM files public that maybe have been public for many years before but no one had paid attention.

The biggest problem in this field is always the methodology up to the formation of the file (way of collecting and processing the sample), and then on top of that, they always use outdated family trees, which makes it even worse; I think I read that this same article presented in 2025 uses a 2018 ISOGG tree, that’s the level in more or less all of them.

About 2800 BC, the date of the Samara they used to model the “steppe people” back then, it could already have P312** alive in parallel for 200 years and even could have 50 branches in operation.

I place the birth of P312** in the Iberian Peninsula because otherwise the phylogenetic tree of R1b-P312 doesn’t make sense, but here no one is a fortune teller; for those who argue that L151* was present in the CW… it’s a dead line, none of them have the P312* mutation, in one there’s U106 and we’re equally in dates where P312** had already been born and was already diversified. There’s a parallel branch still alive P310* in the Balkans; I’ve also seen articles where in southern Italy they marked some rates of P310* when P312 and U106 were being analyzed.

By 2600 BC, there were easily 400 P312* branches.

What sense does it make to model an L51* plagued with accumulated endogamy from R1A and Z2103 with Iberian populations?

I’ve modeled and experimented a lot back in the day with admixture, qpadm, etc.; it’s a toy tool because we don’t have a way to feed the machine correctly; it’s forcing a puzzle where pieces are missing, and only the Y chromosome points the way; I myself could sell any bullshit (slip in lies) to any academic who signs archaeogenetics papers because their level of knowledge in bioinformatics is null; in this same forum, I’ve read people who seem to have learned on their own to refine BAM files and with practically no experience are better than the “bioinformaticians” who work for Olalde; I don’t know if he does that part himself, if he does, his refinement is very bad.

The programs they use for modeling aren’t bad because of the biological engineering that processes the program; they are programs that read genealogical circuits; the one handling it must have solid knowledge in the base of allelic crossings, not just “button mashing” until an average fits; all these modelings are bad because of the number of samples they use to model with; modeling a Hispanic P312, like the case of EHU002 from Hundido de Burgos (the empirical specimen with the P312* ZZ11* mutation and (ZZ12_1 with confusing signals)) with a Samara L51* from 2800 BC is like modeling an ancient Jew using a current Moor.

That would be an “practical” approximate comparison of the stupidity they did.

The P312* had absolutely nothing to do with the Z2103* and will never have anything to do with them except that both descend from L23, and that’s a story 1000 years before the Yamnaya and the Bell Beakers. Even the horses were from totally different haplogroups; the eastern battle ponies were from Y P*, D*, DA1*, Db* haplogroups; the horses that replaced the rest with 1.60 cm at the withers in the Iron Age of Iberia from Y Po*, DA1_U* and DAC haplogroups.

P312* are only 3 main ethnic branches despite there being 9 large P312* branches.

Of the 3 big ones, no matter how many twists they give to the matter, DF27** is notably the oldest and the largest.

DF27 alone is as big as U152 and L21 combined worldwide. DF27: 120 million L21: 60 million U152: 50 million

I saw in another forum an Englishman claiming that L21* was the one with the most SNPs and therefore thought it was the one with the most reproductive success of all P312 clades, but that’s not the case; that only refers to the fact that people with L21 are the ones who have done the most modern DNA tests and therefore it’s the one with the most documented SNPs.

If the southern part of Europe had the same number of samples in proportion, you could see it more clearly.

Peer-reviewed studies have only analyzed Z195* of all P312 and just with that branch it already comes out that the Iberians are the oldest Z195* in all of Europe.

The next oldest P312 branches will be the Italic U152; the bottleneck of L21 is below DF13, a clade 100 years on average younger than DF27>Z195, DF27>ZZ12_1 or U152>L2. Each of those are very different paths.

ZZ12_1* is probably older than Z195*; it’s still not very known due to the lack of specific data from the west of Spain but it has more than 30 documented branches in DNA houses and all 30 are present in the Iberian Peninsula; the illiterate Olalde and his oligophrenic buddies used a fucking outdated ISOGG tree on purpose for Basque and Catalan independence issues. In 2022, everyone already knew about the ZZ12_1 branch but in the 2022 reviewed article it doesn’t appear; it’s lamentable; if they did it for political reasons it’s bad, but if they did it out of ignorance, even much worse.

Back to the article presented in the thread, I’d give it a 2 out of 10 for what a DNA paper should be. They should be talking about what type of Z198 branch was found in those sites, if Z198>M167>CTS4299 which is 30% of current Catalans or the more archaic Z198>CTS4118 or Z198>ZS312, but no; instead, they mention that imaginary steppe R1a or Z2103 are yet to arrive, since the steppe P312 never existed.

That they don’t address these topics can only indicate that current academics are illiterate in the subject for which they get paid from public subsidies and are 10 years behind reality; this field doesn’t look like it’s going to change in its woke methodology based on autosomal mixtures that are easily biasable at will.

I really can’t wrap my head around how the Anglo-Saxon current thinks that the Bell Beakers were born in Germany when they are culturally 400 years older in the Iberian Peninsula and the oldest P312* has been the EHU002 sample from Burgos since 2015, which was when the original BAM files of the first Bell Beaker article presented in 2018 were created, and since then no more basal P312* has appeared.

On the topic of females… Realize how long the DNA houses are taking to classify them; the mt part is an infinite chaos, but many apparently Iberian-origin mt clades moved in parallel as the Bell Beaker culture expanded.

With the Y chromosome, you could know down to the millimeter even where the historical Jesus took a shit; with mt, totally impossible to track anything.

In practical life, the mother’s thing is science and the father’s belief; everyone knows with a greater degree of certainty that they came out of their mother’s pussy but it’s hard to prove that you came out of your father’s dick.

In archaeogenetics, it’s the opposite; the Y chromosome is God and mt speculative; autosomal mixtures directly are schizophrenia.

Autosomal mixtures are references in which you have to have a clear context of the entire current reality, not preach 4 specific papers as if they were the bible.

P312 has an INHUMAN pedigree collapse; from being 1 single specimen in 3000 BC to more than 200 million today… that equals a collapse of a number with more than 50 zeros. (Focus on the fact that 1 million has 9 zeros)

Technical explanation:

The P312 pedigree collapse can be expressed like this: • 200 generations × 25 years = 5,000 years (≈3000 BC → present) • Theoretical growth: 2^{200} ≈ 1.6 × 10^{60} possible ancestors • Current effective population: 2 × 10⁸

Therefore: \frac{2^{200}}{2 × 10^8} ≈ 8 × 10^{51}

This implies a pedigree collapse of an order of 10⁵² (a 1 followed by ~52 zeros). In practical terms, ancestral redundancy is almost total: each current individual descends thousands of trillions of times from the same original founders, which explains the reproductive success and massive persistence of the P312 lineage.

It’s funny when someone drops the prefabricated phrase that the Y chromosome only contributes 2% of the total… What happens when a specimen repeats in the family tree trillions of times?

I’ve seen dogs in exhibitions that were children of their grandmother (crossing a world champion with his mother) with less degree of endogamy than Bronze Age humans.

The bottleneck didn’t happen randomly; it would be like saying that Anglo-Americans invented the iPhone by chance.

Something that people have trouble assimilating is that all Bell Beaker descendants understood genealogies horizontally, not vertically like today.

In the Bronze Age, the higher degree of endogamy you had without side effects, the purer and more related to your Gods you were. The child who came out a bit crooked was thrown off a cliff like the Spartans did, and if you didn’t do it, you were simply a bad person; let’s say it was the equivalent of aborting a Down syndrome in the present (as cruel as it may sound).

Everyone who thinks that endogamy is always bad simply doesn’t understand absolutely anything about genetics; only with extreme endogamy can specimens superior to others be created.

P.S. with some little-known random data that should be discussed in these studies since it’s totally in line with the haplogroups of the area:

There’s a lot of outdated technicality regarding bronze, but eastern bronzes until 2000 BC were arsenical copper; mixing it with tin was something much more exclusive to the Atlantic.

The oldest empirical evidences of steel in Europe are in El Argar in two different versions. A sword pommel ornament with gold and meteoric steel. A bracelet of low-nickel steel (not meteoric steel) but without signs of carburization.

Date 1900-1800 BC, most probable responsible haplogroup Z198.

The next ones in the Lusitanian west in a chisel in this case carburized dated to 950 BC, most probable responsible haplogroup ZZ12_1, 150 years before the arrival of the Phoenicians.

The Iberians knew steel 1200 years before what popular academia estimated.

In addition, in El Argar and Motillas del Azuer are the first evidences of lime mortar. 2000 years before the arrival of the Romans.
 
I see you have some intellectual "hate" for academics. I have personnaly some doubts about some of the conclusions seen in some papers, but I do not think they are dumb or ignorant people all of them! Your post have kind of a logorrhoeaic aspect but is "rich". I don't think I 'll contradict everypoint of your reasoning but when I have time enough I 'll try to answer some points.
Just concerning Iron in Iberia, I think (without too much certainty it's true) that it could have been arrived first there by sea fromt East Mediterranea, as it seems it appeared first in the El Argar areas which have underwent strong cultural input from East.
 
A few years ago I anecdotally noted from the Y trees such as YFULL and FTDNA that the British DF27 was not downstream of Iberian DF27 and the Iberian DF27 was not downstream of the British DF27. It is clear how fast this lineage expanded by the sheer number of branches that became prevalent in different areas. The epi-center seems to be central Europe, with the Iberian peninsula having a higher modern population because they wiped out the existing males.

I read in this thread that P312 could have originated in Iberia - that is not possible based on the Ytree and how easy it is to see the upstream/downstream progression by geographic region.

It is quite impressive how it shot out of a cannon across Europe in a short time.
 
I see you have some intellectual "hate" for academics. I have personnaly some doubts about some of the conclusions seen in some papers, but I do not think they are dumb or ignorant people all of them! Your post have kind of a logorrhoeaic aspect but is "rich". I don't think I 'll contradict everypoint of your reasoning but when I have time enough I 'll try to answer some points.
Just concerning Iron in Iberia, I think (without too much certainty it's true) that it could have been arrived first there by sea fromt East Mediterranea, as it seems it appeared first in the El Argar areas which have underwent strong cultural input from East.
My “hate” toward the academics who keep defending the steppe theory out of inertia is obvious because I’m absolutely fed up with running into AI-generated YouTube videos that talk about that whole process in a totally distorted way, citing papers from 2018 without taking into account current reality or archaeology, with phrases like “the steppe people arrived around 2000 BC and replaced all Iberian males.”

Back in 2015, based on the public data available, that idea was perfectly possible—that was crystal clear. I myself thought for a long time that the origin of P312* should be very close to the Alpine area. At that time, the structure of the R1b-L151 tree was not clear at all.

But here we are in 2025 and not a single L151* or P312* sample has ever been found in the steppe contemporary with the Yamnaya. So if we did come from that area (Black Sea/Balkans), then we must have migrated several centuries earlier than initially estimated.

I’m not talking about a totally different history—just one with a very different chronology, strictly sticking to empirical data.

Moving the migration 500 years earlier radically changes the whole picture.

If FTDNA estimates the average date for DF27 at 2750 BC, and when using only Spanish samples it shifts to 3200–2800 BC…

That’s the complete opposite of Reich’s estimates.

TMRCA comparisons: 2022 paper vs FTDNA
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DF27 did not arrive in the Iberian Peninsula after 2500–2400 BC because the 31 most basal branches of ZZ12_1*, which go back to 2650 BC, and the 9 branches of Z195* from 2650 BC, are present in Iberia between Spain and Portugal—something no other country has.

Therefore, it couldn’t have come from anywhere else; it can only be native to the original Bell Beaker culture, the Iberian one.

You’re right to point out that I’m extremely foul-mouthed—I even managed to get myself banned from “foronazis” (you can guess which DNA forum I’m referring to) with a single message 🤣.

From now on, I’ll stick to citing data with no personal opinions about academics after this post.

Deep down, more than criticizing academics themselves, I’m criticizing the methodology imposed on them—but they’re the ones who need to change it internally. Otherwise, we’ll just keep seeing papers based on circular reasoning with autosomal mixtures that get demolished two papers later by Y-chromosome refinement.

I don’t know if you read Patricia Villaescusa’s thesis—she really did an excellent job.

Her thesis was presented in 2019, she used a 2017 ISSOG tree, and she reached these conclusions:
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Very coherent, high-quality conclusions based on the data she had.

Her thesis is a high-quality piece of work (even though some regions were missing). Meanwhile, 90% of the data in the 2022 article signed by eight archaeogeneticists is quite questionable: despite three years of work and eight people collaborating, they only refined five more clades and, on top of that, they omit areas like Portugal, Valencia, Aragon, Cantabria, or Extremadura—even though they were included in Patricia’s original thesis.

(Being a geneticist is not the same as being an archaeogeneticist.)

It’s like comparing a Formula 1 engineer to a neighborhood mechanic.

I’m simply another biologist who can see that practically everyone failed to process the level of absoluteness that girl put on the table.

The Basques descend from Proto-Aragonese (Celtiberian–Argaric–Iberian) through the Z195 line, and from Proto-Lusitanians (the earliest western Bell Beakers) through ZZ12_1. But people just can’t accept it.

They either don’t understand it or don’t want to understand it.

Around 2020, MyHeritage changed the “race” of all Spaniards: they went from being ancestrally mixed with Central Europeans to being over 90% Iberian (the moment when Patricia’s thesis demonstrated that DF27 is of Iberian origin).

Shortly after, the data even showed that M153—the one everyone considers “Basque”—is of Valencian origin.

She was right because she had noticed details like the Valencian M153 having a TMRCA a thousand years older than the Basque ones.

The Basques are 100% Iberian, but not Iberians isolated for 5000 years—they’re a compilation of multiple Iberian ethnic groups going back from the Iron Age to the Chalcolithic. Their genetic isolation began with the arrival of Rome.

We’ve mixed plenty within the peninsula.

The problem coming in the future is the internal “archaeogenetic civil war” in Iberia between Lusitanians, Castilians, Basques, and Catalans over which group is the oldest. DF27 is a macro-haplogroup, but all its internal branches are from the peninsula—so the hints that it was born elsewhere are starting to get annoying.

Broadly speaking, ZZ12_1* is Hispanic-Atlantic and Z195* is Hispanic-Cantabrian/Mediterranean.

They are so both in terms of population percentage and age/variety, and there’s no polite way to say it. Anyone bothered by that should switch off their emotional bias and learn to process sampling bias.

Spaniards aren’t just the oldest DF27—we’re also the oldest P312, precisely because we have the oldest DF27. 90% of archaeogenetics hobbyists ignore this due to a deep lack of understanding of phylogeny.

U152* and DF13* are the “little brothers” and they do not explain the origin and existence of the Iberians.

Science is a hitman for the data; consensuses (like Reich’s and Olalde’s) are politics.

We’ll reach 2035 without having found a single L151> in the steppes, and they’ll still keep defending it.
 
My “hate” toward the academics who keep defending the steppe theory out of inertia is obvious because I’m absolutely fed up with running into AI-generated YouTube videos that talk about that whole process in a totally distorted way, citing papers from 2018 without taking into account current reality or archaeology, with phrases like “the steppe people arrived around 2000 BC and replaced all Iberian males.”

Back in 2015, based on the public data available, that idea was perfectly possible—that was crystal clear. I myself thought for a long time that the origin of P312* should be very close to the Alpine area. At that time, the structure of the R1b-L151 tree was not clear at all.

But here we are in 2025 and not a single L151* or P312* sample has ever been found in the steppe contemporary with the Yamnaya. So if we did come from that area (Black Sea/Balkans), then we must have migrated several centuries earlier than initially estimated.

I’m not talking about a totally different history—just one with a very different chronology, strictly sticking to empirical data.

Moving the migration 500 years earlier radically changes the whole picture.

If FTDNA estimates the average date for DF27 at 2750 BC, and when using only Spanish samples it shifts to 3200–2800 BC…

That’s the complete opposite of Reich’s estimates.

TMRCA comparisons: 2022 paper vs FTDNA
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DF27 did not arrive in the Iberian Peninsula after 2500–2400 BC because the 31 most basal branches of ZZ12_1*, which go back to 2650 BC, and the 9 branches of Z195* from 2650 BC, are present in Iberia between Spain and Portugal—something no other country has.

Therefore, it couldn’t have come from anywhere else; it can only be native to the original Bell Beaker culture, the Iberian one.

You’re right to point out that I’m extremely foul-mouthed—I even managed to get myself banned from “foronazis” (you can guess which DNA forum I’m referring to) with a single message 🤣.

From now on, I’ll stick to citing data with no personal opinions about academics after this post.

Deep down, more than criticizing academics themselves, I’m criticizing the methodology imposed on them—but they’re the ones who need to change it internally. Otherwise, we’ll just keep seeing papers based on circular reasoning with autosomal mixtures that get demolished two papers later by Y-chromosome refinement.

I don’t know if you read Patricia Villaescusa’s thesis—she really did an excellent job.

Her thesis was presented in 2019, she used a 2017 ISSOG tree, and she reached these conclusions:
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Very coherent, high-quality conclusions based on the data she had.

Her thesis is a high-quality piece of work (even though some regions were missing). Meanwhile, 90% of the data in the 2022 article signed by eight archaeogeneticists is quite questionable: despite three years of work and eight people collaborating, they only refined five more clades and, on top of that, they omit areas like Portugal, Valencia, Aragon, Cantabria, or Extremadura—even though they were included in Patricia’s original thesis.

(Being a geneticist is not the same as being an archaeogeneticist.)

It’s like comparing a Formula 1 engineer to a neighborhood mechanic.

I’m simply another biologist who can see that practically everyone failed to process the level of absoluteness that girl put on the table.

The Basques descend from Proto-Aragonese (Celtiberian–Argaric–Iberian) through the Z195 line, and from Proto-Lusitanians (the earliest western Bell Beakers) through ZZ12_1. But people just can’t accept it.

They either don’t understand it or don’t want to understand it.

Around 2020, MyHeritage changed the “race” of all Spaniards: they went from being ancestrally mixed with Central Europeans to being over 90% Iberian (the moment when Patricia’s thesis demonstrated that DF27 is of Iberian origin).

Shortly after, the data even showed that M153—the one everyone considers “Basque”—is of Valencian origin.

She was right because she had noticed details like the Valencian M153 having a TMRCA a thousand years older than the Basque ones.

The Basques are 100% Iberian, but not Iberians isolated for 5000 years—they’re a compilation of multiple Iberian ethnic groups going back from the Iron Age to the Chalcolithic. Their genetic isolation began with the arrival of Rome.

We’ve mixed plenty within the peninsula.

The problem coming in the future is the internal “archaeogenetic civil war” in Iberia between Lusitanians, Castilians, Basques, and Catalans over which group is the oldest. DF27 is a macro-haplogroup, but all its internal branches are from the peninsula—so the hints that it was born elsewhere are starting to get annoying.

Broadly speaking, ZZ12_1* is Hispanic-Atlantic and Z195* is Hispanic-Cantabrian/Mediterranean.

They are so both in terms of population percentage and age/variety, and there’s no polite way to say it. Anyone bothered by that should switch off their emotional bias and learn to process sampling bias.

Spaniards aren’t just the oldest DF27—we’re also the oldest P312, precisely because we have the oldest DF27. 90% of archaeogenetics hobbyists ignore this due to a deep lack of understanding of phylogeny.

U152* and DF13* are the “little brothers” and they do not explain the origin and existence of the Iberians.

Science is a hitman for the data; consensuses (like Reich’s and Olalde’s) are politics.

We’ll reach 2035 without having found a single L151> in the steppes, and they’ll still keep defending it.
I have some problems with TMRCA's and things like that; they are calculated based on modern downstream clades frequency but don't give us always with certitude the place of origin of the ancestors. I discuss (todate, it may change) the too tight links (geographically) between "old" L51 , then S116/P312 and then DF27 and downstreams - I never said DF27 was not born in Iberia even if I had a second bet for it in far southern France (it 's almost the same). I'm almost sure DF27, wherever it could have been born, knowed a specific and huge babyboom in Iberia - Concerning the Y-haplos* [without more known mutation] of ancient clades, the states we have can change everyday in some cases and we have more than an example of these "definitive" maps of frequency for these rare still living haplos) -
concerning Basques, it seems since a long enough time that their Y-DF27 could be due to founder effect and drift.
Now, I wait for 3000/2500 BC high levels of Y-R1b-S116 found in Iberia, BB's or not; only then I 'll change my todate humble guesses -
concerning L51 I've never thought it was born on the Steppes, rather in east-central Europe, and even less concerning S116/P312: who is saying that todate? -
I add a little answer to a remark in one of your preceding posts:
You said:
Autosomal modeling is useless on a large scale in almost all academic articles; if a sample has 15% base coverage and the modeling only reads 70% of that 15%, at the end of the day, what the **** have we been doing? Exactly, mental masturbation; you take a known percentage and maximize it over the 90% you don’t know, and space Yamnayas appear.


Me : I think even 10 % base coverage is enough with the already big number of readable SNPs it contains. The hazard possible distorsions would be very light, whatever the number of missing parts. But all the way I see you give only faith to hte uniparental markers...
 
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