Yediay et al. 2024 had Bronze Age samples from north Anatolian site Rasuloglu Hoyuk in Çorum province.

 Yediay et al. 2024 had Bronze Age samples from north Anatolian site Rasuloglu Hoyuk in Çorum province.

They were explicitly labeled as representative of Hattian culture. So it would be interesting to look what Y DNA they had. One of them was G2-M406 as expected. Many commentators considered G2-M406 as a Hattic people marker. And now we have a confirmation of that. Another interesting finding from Rasuloglu was the T1a2a. It must be noted that till now T1a2 has regularly been found in ancient Anatolia. Both the T1a2a and T1a2b. Apparently it was a minor Neolithic lineage that moved somewhat late to Europe and had rare presence in Neolithic Europe, restricted solely to Balkans.

Later in Early Chalcolithic period with the expansion in north Anatolia of new groups related to Hattic people (later Hittite, Palaic also) the T1a2-L131 became more frequent alongside with G2-M406.

We have another T1a2 from ancient Hellenistic era Samsun a region which had a Hattic and possibly Kaskian population in Bronze Age. And number of T1a2 in western Anatolia.

It's remarkable that similar to G2-M406 the T1a2 was rare or virtually absent in Bronze Age Minoan Crete demonstrating that the group involved in the rise of Minoan Civilization was somewhat different from those who moved to North Anatolia in Early Chalcolithic.

The distribution in modern Armenians supports those findings. T1a2 is found predominantly in western Armenians and rare in eastern Armenia. It's remarkable that a modern Armenian is in basal position in T1a2* which adds extra evidence that the initial homeland of T1a2 was in the vicinity of historic Armenia