What do you believe was the most common phenotypes among the first mtDNA N1a carriers in Europe?

**Pallantides** · 01-01-2011, 05:13 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_N1a_(mtDNA)

Seven of 42 skeletons from Linear Pottery Culture sites were found to be members of the N1a haplogroup (see Neolithic European section). N1a was also identified in remains from a 6200 year-old megalithic long mound near Prissé-la-Charrière, France. A 2500 year old fossil of a Scytho-Siberian in the Altai Republic, easternmost representative of the Scythians, was found to be a member of N1a1. study of a 10th and 11th century Hungarians found that N1a1a1 was present in high-status individuals but absent from commoners. ne of thirteen skeletons analyzed from a medieval cemetery dated 1250-1450 AD in Denmark was found to be a member of subclade N1a1a

**Karl der Große** · 01-01-2011, 06:50 PM

I've no idea. But I'd say UP/Brünn from central Europe.

An excavation of a Linear Pottery village in Bavaria - http://www.spiegel.de/international/...723310,00.html

**Pallantides** · 01-01-2011, 07:01 PM

Early European farmers carrying mtDNA N1a were both locals and migrants
http://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2010/1...ing-mtdna.html

I think the branch of N1a I belong to(not sure about subclade apart from N1a1) might have arrived in Europe earlier than the neolithic, on all admixture analysis I have done I come out 0% Near Eastern, if one of my ancestors was a neolithic farmer from the middle east 7500 years ago, I'd be atleast 1% or 2% Near Eastern, as most Europeans score small amounts of Near Eastern admixture expect for Finns and some Northern Europeans.