An open thread about Bronze Age Anatolian Y DNA

 An open thread about Bronze Age Anatolian Y DNA

I plan to write a review about the origins of IE Anatolians. As stated earlier in this group I believe that the definite solution of this question requires dozens of Bronze Age Y DNA from specific locations in plain Anatolia that are neither Greek ( Aegean coast ) neither Hattic or Kaskian ( north of Anatolia ) and neither had a strong presence of Hurrians. Before this data is available I would like to make a summary of already available Y DNA to find some patterns. I will not discuss in this thread the steppe markers R1b and I2. Their affiliation to IE migrations is unambiguous. What is more important about them is the route of migration and possible linguistic affiliation in IE family. I will discuss them in the review about Anatolian IE.

J1-Z1828* found from Harmanören - Göndürle Höyük, dated at ~2400BC. (Lazaridis et al. 2017)

There is no information about the downstream branch but chances are quite high that it is from BY69 branch that was found in Anatolia from later periods.

J2-Z6065>Y9268>Z43664 from Ovaoren dated at ~2750BC. Damgaard et al. 2018.

This branch is parallel to the P81 found in Maykop culture.

Another J2-Z6065 was found in Yediay et al. 2024.

2x J2-M67>Z6273 from Kalehoyuk dated around 2500-1200 BC. Damgaard et al. 2018

This branch can reflect a new post Neolithic migration, however the presence in Neolithic Italy Cardial Ware raise the possibility that it was present in Anatolia from Neolithic period.

Another possible Bronze Age Anatolian lineage is the E-791. However we need to wait the publication of Yediay et al. 2024 for the raw files for full confirmation of this theory.

Indirect data suggest that J2-L70 and upstream level also was a Bronze Age Anatolian lineage that expanded in LBA - IA possibly with Luwians.

I didn't include G2-M406 and T1a2a given that there is strong reasons to believe that they were initially associated with Hattic people expansion.

The main visible pattern is that all this haplotypes have obvious eastern connections. Another remarkable feature is their absence from a large set of Minoan Y DNA. This support the idea that they can't be connected to Proto Minoan migration neither to non-IE Hattic people.

to be continued