I5232 23andme format file

In the world of archaeogenetics, 'Old Europe' refers to the lost civilizations that thrived long before the Indo-European expansion. This era typically spans from the 5th to the 3rd millennium BC, beginning when the first farmers from Anatolia settled the continent and ending when the Bronze Age 'invaders' changed Europe’s DNA forever.

But the sample I’m introducing today (I5232) defies that timeline.

Dating back to the 6th millennium BC, nearly a thousand years before the height of Old Europe, this individual might be the very first 'Old European.' But here is the crazy part: despite living thousands of years before the Indo-European expansion, this sample carries the lineage R1b, the very DNA marker we usually associate with the people who brought Old Europe to an end.

qpAdm analysis reveals that this sample is mainly a mixture of Western Hunter Gatherers with Anatolian Farmers. This model reveals that this sample carries 55 percent Anatolian, 36 percent western hunter gatherer, and 8 percent eastern hunter gatherer ancestry.

The F4 statistics confirm that this sample is not a 'pure' representative of any one ancestral group. Instead, they reveal that the sample is best modeled as a mixture of western hunter gatherers with neolithic anatolians.