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The individual this video is about lived in the 5th millenia BCE, and contributed to the Maykop culture and ultimately to modern Caucasian ethnicities such as Georgians, Chechems, Lezgins, and Armenians.

This individual lived in what is now the village Dakhovskaya in Adyghea a key region of the North Caucasus. This area would later become a hotspot for some of the most influential ancient cultures, including the Maykop culture, the Proto-Indo-Europeans, and eventually groups like the Alans and Kipchaks.

This sample carried the Y lineage J2a, which is associated with Iranian Neolithic farmers. He descends from a mixture of Iranian Neolithic Farmers, Caucasus hunter gatherers, Anatolian Neolithic farmers, and Eastern Hunter Gatherers. Overall, his genetic profile most closely resembles Western Georgians.

This sample’s more recent ancestry can be broken down into a mixture of neolithic inhabitants of azerbaijan and eneolithic steppe people, the precursor to Yamnaya and Corded ware cultures.

As such, this man stands at the genetic and geographic crossroads of early Eurasian farming societies and the pastoralists of the steppe — both of which would shape the demographic and linguistic future of the Caucasus and much of Eurasia.

I ran this sample through my trait predictor and betacalc tools for DNA analysis.