DNA reveals origin of Greece's ancient Minoan culture

[Norse]

This adds more credence to the fact that Europe used to be way more Nordic and that current populations are invaders.

[Sikeliot]

I just found this "However, the findings by Stamatoyannopoulos' team are contradicted by several other previous and subsequent genetic studies, which found that ancient Minoans had largely Middle-Eastern maternal genetic lineages (from populations in contemporary Iraq, Syria and Turkey) and "the female [Minoan genetic] component is heavily influenced by Asia and the Middle East as opposed to Europe."[121][122][123] Stamatoyannopoulos's team did not analyze paternal DNA, acknowledging that previous research found Middle Eastern genetic roots for the ancient Minoans' paternal and maternal lines"

This would make them similar to Sicilians, where the mtdna shows a strong link to the Levant according to one study.

[Kelmendasi]

Cretans do not have elevated Levantine ancestry, haven't you seen the hundreds of Cretan dna results that Sikeliot posted?

Judging by what I have seen, Greek Islanders like Cretans do have a higher amount of Levant admix

[wvwvw]

This adds more credence to the fact that Europe used to be way more Nordic and that current populations are invaders.

Make Greece Nordic again !

[wvwvw]

Judging by what I have seen, Greek Islanders like Cretans do have a higher amount of Levant admix

Lavrentis probably has Maghrebian admix in addition to his levantine

[Rethel]

Doubt it. They are always linked J2

Even if it wouldn't be E, then first migrants on the west were G-Farmers, not J-men.

[wvwvw]

Even if it wouldn't be E, then first migrants on the west were G-Farmers, not J-men.

J2 can be found all over Europe. It was spread to Europe by the Minoans prior to 1600 BC. The same linage was also spread to Persia and then on to India in 1400 BC. There is no genetic linage appart from J2 and Ev13 that appears in all European speaking postulations. J2 is the most predominate linage of the two.

Minoan Greeks were the only European civilisation capable of spreading a common PIE language. (words connected with agriculture, sea terms etc). If there was an Indo-European language it was spread through trade and through writing. Foreign languages and terms cannot be imposed on people unless they are written down and speared through literature. The Greeks were the bringers of writing, agriculture, science, and philosophy to Europe and thus all the terms pertaining to these derived from Greek.



Minoans were of mixed J2 and Ev13 agricultural linages

[Voskos]

I know a guy from my region who belongs to the exact same mtdna subclade as one of these minoan skeletons.

[Voskos]

This adds more credence to the fact that Europe used to be way more Nordic and that current populations are invaders.

none of the mtdna found was nordic. it was either steppe-related, west asian or neolithic.

[Proto-Shaman]

This bastard George Stamatoyannopoulos should be expelled from Washington University, he is a typical manipulator. Minoans were part of the ancient Turanian (Altaic) civilisations. J2 in Cretans is another proof of that!