Arame's anthro blog

A Broader View of Eurasian Genetic History This group is dedicated to Armenians, but since many topics discussed here are indirectly related...

Steppe Eneolithic and the Origins of Yamnaya Ancestry In 2019 , Wang et al. published three ancient DNA samples from the northern Caucasus ...

New Kura–Araxes Y-DNA Samples from Ghalichi et al. (2024) Ghalichi et al. (2024) published seven new Kura–Araxes (KA) ancient samples from G...

Ukraine Neolithic Hunter-Gatherer Ancestry in Yamnaya Lazaridis et al. (2024) discovered that Yamnaya populations contain a component of Ukr...

 The haplogroup G is the third most frequent in Armenia after R1b and J2. G was prominent in early Neolithic farmers, especially in those t...

Iron Age Y-DNA from North Macedonia This dataset shows Iron Age Y-DNA samples from the territory of modern North Macedonia , based on data f...

The J2 haplogroup has a complex structure. For those who want to understand it better here is a tree made by Rozhansky more than 6 years ago...

J2-Z6065 in the Armenian Highlands J2-Z6065 is the third most frequent branch of J2a in Armenia , after M67 and L25 . Its initial homelan...

Trialeti–Vanadzor Culture and Its Genetic Legacy in the South Caucasus The possible steppe connection and Indo-European affiliation of the...

Elamites Amjadi et al. (2025) published ancient DNA from the Chalcolithic period in the South Zagros, dated to around 4600 BC. The sample co...

After the Neolithic period migrations from east changed the genetic landscape of plain Anatolia. Those migrations were not an one time event...

We have one sample from north Caucasus PG2004 which is similar to so called BP group of Caucasus Lower Volga cline. Modeling Yamnaya as a th...