Modern-day Greeks & Italians vs Mycenaeans

Modern-day Greeks & Italians vs Mycenaeans

What are the historical and linguistic implications of these qpAdm mixture models, apart, of course, from the most obvious? Please share your thoughts in the comments below. By the way, I tried a wide variety of ancients only models for the Greeks and Italians and these were statistically the most sound. If you’re wondering who the Roman outlier is, see here.

Mycenaean

Minoan_Lasithi 0.780±0.044

Srubnaya 0.220±0.044

P-value 0.909333794

chisq 7.595

Full output vs Greek

Iran_ChL 0.090±0.071

Mycenaean 0.478±0.103

Slav_Bohemia 0.432±0.077

P-value 0.461783732

chisq 12.820

Full output Italian_Bergamo

Anatolia_BA 0.239±0.057

Iceman_MN 0.332±0.054

Unetice 0.429±0.030

P-value 0.764439946

chisq 9.112

Full output Italian_Tuscan

England_Roman_outlier 0.118±0.115

Mycenaean 0.521±0.147

Unetice 0.361±0.059

P-value 0.741956816

chisq 9.402

Full output Sicilian_East

Bell_Beaker_Germany 0.222±0.077

England_Roman_outlier 0.210±0.134

Mycenaean 0.567±0.163

P-value 0.504442682

chisq 12.285

Full output Sicilian_West

England_Roman_outlier 0.216±0.121

Mycenaean 0.503±0.135

Unetice 0.281±0.056

P-value 0.808464904

chisq 8.516

Full output

See also… Ancient Greeks and Romans may have imported a whole new genetic cline into Europe (or not)

Steppe admixture in Mycenaeans, lots of Caucasus admixture already in Minoans (Lazaridis et al. 2017) Source via Eurogenes Blog