Genetic evidence suggests relationship between contemporary Bulgarian population and Iron Age steppe dwellers from Pontic-Caspian steppe (original) (raw)

Ancient DNA analysis on the ancestry of European populations conducted in the last decade came to the puzzling conclusion that while all contemporary European populations can be best represented as an admixture of 3 ancestral populations –Early European Neolithic farmers (ENF), Western Hunter-Gatherers (WHG) and Ancestral North Eurasians (ANE), contemporary Bulgarians and few other SEE populations can also be represented as an admixture of two groups only – Early European Neolithic farmers and contemporary Caucasian people equally well.If modeled as an admixture of two groups only, the ANE component presented in contemporary Bulgarians would have arrived on the Balkans with hypothetical ANE (Ancestral North Eurasians)-rich Caucasian population. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that increased Caucasian component in contemporary SE Europeans, has been introduced on the Balkans by migrating Iron Age steppe dwellers from Pontic-Caspian steppe. We analyze available DNA datasets from...

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Balkan Archaeology, Genealogy, and Population Origin from the Perspectives of Cultural Genomics

Forţiu, S. (Ed.), ArheoVest, Nr. VI: In Memoriam Marian Gumă, Interdisciplinaritate în Arheologie, Timişoara, 24 noiembrie 2018. Vol. 2: Metode Interdisciplinare, pp. 554-568., 2018