🧵: Fine structure of regional Italy On a broad West Eurasian smartPCA, Italian regions trace a peninsula-wide cline. qpAdm shows marked ancestry variation: Yamnaya 20.6–42.0%, ANF 47.5–60.6%, WHG 3.0–8.6%, ZNF 0–18.9%, Natufian 0–5.4%.

Genetic identification of Árpád Dynasty members from the ossuary of the Royal Basilica at Székesfehérvár. • Three additional R-ARP Árpád lineage carriers identified from 400 Royal Basilica genomes • King Béla II “the Blindˮ reliably identified by autosomal IBD • Authenticity of Béla, Duke of Macsó’s remains genetically confirmed • IBD ties Árpáds to conquering Hungarians, Vikings, Abas, Báthorys, Corvinus cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S…

Decided to combine the Yamnaya Core samples on AADR v66 and calculate proportions. the UNHG/N admixed samples are almost entirely under I-M233.

Regarding genetics, a sample from the area distribution of Osijek-Belgrade types in 360 B.C appears with a profile akin to those of Illyrian graves from Velika Gruda, Cinamak and Skopje. F2, F3 and G25 euclidean distances were used to showcase that:

The spread of Mramorac belts and their origins. Whilst originally thought to be a possibly Triballian invention, later older finds amongst Glasinac and North Albania which developed belt types independently from each other it became clear its origins are within Glasinac-Mat- 1/n

There is a preprint available as well! Link here: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… The peer reviewed version must be coming out soon

A new reconstruction of the oldest surviving image of Alexander the Great painted when he was 20 in 336BC. The ReVis project has used advanced scanning techniques to restore the hunt mural on the façade of the tomb of Alexander's father, Philip II with improved accuracy 1/ 🧵

"Mitotree: The Universal Human Mitochondrial Reference Phylogeny" Read it here: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

Interesting new preprint on climate and prehistoric migrations. The image here is showing movements of Yamnaya, Corded Ware, Germanic, Roman, Steppe Turkic, Indo−Iranian groups. Panel plots IBD-inferred movements for the same groups, with origin (solid circle) and destination (triangle) of each linked pair connected by a line colored by geographic distance.

Sample with Y haplogroup I-M223>PH2670>PH44 from Akbari dataset this Y haplogroup almost exist exclusively among modern day Albanians

The maximal spread of Brygians within SE Albania. These (as well as Paeonians) are characterized by Matt painted pottery which encompassed S. Albania, Aegean and North Macedonia in the MLBA. Genetically, the Kamenica Tumuli shows their common Y-chr likely was R-PF7562.

Roman frontier Y-DNA sorted out (nature.com/articles/s41586-0…)

Neolithic Ancestry Proportions of Bronze Age/Iron Age Europeans

The Glasinac-Mati Complex (1300-200 B.C) Discovered independetly by Yugoslav and Albanian archeologists, G-M is the coalesced form of the people known as Illyrians by Greeks in classical antiquity. Zlot group was originally part of LBA Gava and later showed G-M similarities.

Ancient DNA evidence for the history of the Albanians nature.com/articles/s41562-0…

Facial reconstruction of a 2,400-year-old Thracian from Kaloyanowo, Bulgaria Neolithic Bulgaria was inhabited by Europid populations with strong Cro-Magnoid traits, though cranial gracilization had already begun, likely due to the adoption of agriculture and dietary changes. By the Eneolithic, very gracile Mediterranean types appeared at sites like Russe. At the end of the Eneolithic, brachycranial Europids emerged, including both gracile and more primitive forms. Some resembled the Oberkassel type, while others were similar to populations of the Gumelnitza, Boian, and German Bandkeramik cultures. Alongside Mediterranean types, Alpine and increasingly Dinaric traits appeared. From the Neolithic through the Bronze Age, Dinaricization intensified, which Balkan anthropologists considered largely autochthonous and possibly the result of mutation within Mediterranean populations. The earliest Thracian skulls from Tarnawa showed Dinaric-Mediterranean traits. Later Thracian remains from Dolno Sachrane displayed Cro-Magnoid, gracile Mediterranean, and Dinaroid features. Additional Thracian skulls from the 5th century BC to 4th century AD included gracilized Mediterraneans and Dinaroids. Overall, Ancient Thracians in Bulgaria were predominantly Mediterranean with some Dinaric admixture, closely resembling the earlier local pre-Thracian population. (Peter Boev, 1975)

Bombshell implications if true.