Pyany Bor IA (I16641 + I16644 + I16645) 23andme format

The Pyany Bor culture was an Early Iron Age archaeological culture centered on the lower and middle Kama River basin, especially along the Kama and Belaya rivers in what is today Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, and neighboring parts of Udmurtia and the Volga region. They flourished roughly from the 2nd century BCE to the 2nd century CE.

Turkic languages are generally thought to have begun spreading westward into the Volga–Ural region after the 5th century CE, associated with later Iron Age movements and early medieval migrations, which means this culture predates Turkic speakers in Tatarstan.

Starting in the 3rd century CE and later, Bronze Age and early Medieval migrations, including Sarmatian-related movements and broader Great Migration period dynamics, seem to have shifted settlement patterns, pushed some Pyany Bor populations northward into Udmurtia, and eventually contributed to the rise of successor cultures such as the Azelino and Mazunino traditions in the later Iron Age.

I have gathered 3 high quality Pyany Bor samples from the European Nucleotide Archive and used academic tools, such as admixtools 1 and 2, but also amateur tools, such as my trait predictor, to analyze these samples.