Genetic results from a new paper, Continental Connections Transformed the Genetics and Appearance of Early Medieval England, were released before publication. Here is a link to the genomic data and an abstract from the paper at ENA. Nicely, a person…
Old Norse Specialist Jackson Crawford I’ve listened to a lot of Jackson Crawford videos over the past several years. If you’re interested in the sagas and the eddas, or the differences between old Norse and other Germanic languages, you should…
The sample is CGG107465, Lille Vasby, Høje-Taastrup, Zealand, Denmark, 2194-2026 calBCE, Bell Beaker. In the image below they are the farthest down on the left. Visually represented close to the estimated beginning of R-Z18. This is the oldest sample for…
For reference we’re talking about DNA samples from a preprint released about a year ago: In a previous post I left notes about a new branch for the R-CTS12023/DF95 crew and it’s not a new descendant branch, but a…
For reference, the Y DNA reads I’m talking about are from this study which recently released BAM files, which Ewenn at the U106 group was able to analyze for subclades: Notes on R-Z18 in Steppe Ancestry Pre-print The study left…
In this round of notes, I’m going to look at Iain McDonald’s draft paper again, with subclade information that happily includes R-DF95 Background The draft paper is well worth a read. Regarding R-Z18, Iain laments the lack of information…
Things to get right out of the way: 1. I will reference an unpublished draft work that has not been peer-reviewed. So, although the author is way better at math, probabilities, and genetics than I am, this work reflects them…
These are my notes from the pre-print Steppe Ancestry in western Eurasia and the spread of the Germanic Languages. It hasn’t been peer-reviewed. This is, at it’s heart, an autosomal study, but it does contain some Y-DNA information. They’re trying…
R-ZP121 in Tjærby Denmark Circa 1100-1300 CE. First off, I want to acknowledge the cover photo I’ve stolen from Google Maps, which was taken by Niels Blumensaat. The location for this DNA find is a small town just outside of…
There are different ideas about the beginning and end of the Migration Period. I’m not sure migration ever really ends. As one of my friends reminded me when I commented on his relation to indigenous Sami Y DNA, “Everyone is…