A Mycenaean and an Iron Age Iranian walk into a bar…

What do they have in common? The same type of Near Eastern ancestry? From Iran? Nope, that’s a joke. Obviously, they share the same type of steppe ancestry. This probably has some very important linguistic implications.

The relevant Principal Component Analysis (PCA) datasheet is available here. Below are two pairs of formal mixture models that support my inferences from the PCA.

Mycenaean
Srubnaya_MLBA 0.266±0.029
Tepecik_Ciftlik_N 0.734±0.029
P-value: 0.588000631
Full output
Mycenaean
Minoan_Lasithi 0.790±0.023
Srubnaya_MLBA 0.210±0.023
P-value: 0.187709803
Full output
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Turkmenistan_IA
Namazga_CA 0.528±0.040
Srubnaya_MLBA 0.472±0.040
P-value: 0.561330411
Full output
Turkmenistan_IA
Dzharkutan1_BA 0.530±0.037
Srubnaya_MLBA 0.470±0.037
P-value: 0.485083377
Full output

But seriously, what’s the direct link between populations like Tepecik_Ciftlik_N/Minoan_Lasithi and Namazga_CA/Dzharkutan1_BA, except some exceedingly distant farmer ancestry from the Fertile Crescent?
See also…
An early Iranian, obviously
Graeco-Aryan parallels
Main candidates for the precursors of the proto-Greeks in the ancient DNA record to date

Source

https://xissufotoday.space/2018/07/a-mycenaean-and-an-iron-age-iranian-walk-into-a-bar/