sardinian people is neolithic people, but haplogroup paleolithic?

[spanish catalan]

[askra]

We sardinians are supposed to be neolithics, according to some theories, because some mummies found to a distance of hundreds or even thousand of kilometers far from the island that lived in the neolithic (from the Alps to Sweden!) are genetically related to us.

We score about 35% western hunter gatherer (that is mesolithic), a percentage much higher than other european ethnicities. So if we were the quintessence of neolithic europeans, how could we score so high mesolithic percentage?

[Sockorer]

I imagine there was an expansion of the stuff during the Neolithic(before the indo-Europeans arrived) and then some time after the fall of the Western Roman Empire probably with the expansion of the Slavs(long after the indo-Europeans arrived).

[Vesuvian Sky]

I found the Steppek10 results interesting:

Near Eastern: 0.647329
East Asian: 0.00001
Siberian: 0.00001
Oceanian: 0.00001
WHG-UHG: 0.342956
Sub-Saharan: 0.007396
Hindu-Kush: 0.00001
Steppe: 0.00001
Ameri-Indian: 0.00001
Southeast Asian: 0.002259

These results are basically modal for Sardinians and the lack of Steppe and related components to steppe means in theory no further admixture past the Calcolithic. Some older papers even postulated that the R1b was pre-Neolithic but I can't remember which clade is modal for Sardinians so I'm not sure if that paper is accurate. But yes there is ample WHG admixture here as well.

[Ülev]

better maps with I2a1 (M26)