I like the SNP Tracker, but especially for E-V13, but probably in general, for all haplogroups with a strong Eastern presence, there is a strong Western bias due to the large number of English and the much lower number of Slovakian, Romanian, Moldovan, Ukrainian testers.
Because of that I made once more a "correction" to the East for the estimates of the SNP tracker, based on two assumptions:
- Eastern Otomani-Wietenberg into Suciu de Sus-Lapus-Berkesz-Demecser into Gáva-Holigrady is the old core of E-V13 in the Bronze Age
- The bias observable is currently primarily a Western-Southern one, due to two factors:
1) Slavic expansion on top of local Daco-Thracian people
2) Southward shift in the Roman era due to this replacement in the North and major groups of people fleeing towards the Mediterranean coast.
Therefore I used some of the more important SNP's form E-V13, for which we have sufficient data, and placed them RELATIVELY to each other just North Eastward of where SNP tracker is putting them, because one thing is for sure: Where SNP Tracker puts them, they were not.
The result is quite interesting:
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It is probably debatable whether my positioning is too much Northern, but the West - East axis seems to be largely correct for sure. Because this puts all later E-V13 branches deeply into the "Carpatho-Balkan cremation gap", from which we have no samples in the crucial periods so far, whereas all around being sufficiently tested to exclude the presence of the then, by the MBA-LBA, fairly massive E-V13 population.
Also interesting that this way all SNP's end up in the East Balkan and Eastern Carpathian basin. We know for sure that the West Balkan, the area the regular SNP Tracker puts them, was not the E-V13 home, because the very area covered by the E-V13 branches was the Illyrian J-L283 core. There can be absolutely no doubt that the E-V13 population must have lived to the North East of this Illyrian block, which became known as being largely inhabited by Daco-Thracian people in the Iron Age.
Based on the modern data we could assume a migration of E-V13 from North Eastern Bulgaria into Transylvania - a bit more Northern or Southern doesn't chance the fundamentals. But more Western is excluded, which makes us end up all in the natural borders of Tisza - Danube - Carpathians.
If one would shift the whole network down, towards the South, one would end up in Southern Romania for the E-V13 Bronze Age network and the E-V13 ancestor coming from around Turkish Thrace. E-Z5018 would still be in the Suciu de Sus territory by the MBA.
