New Paper: Corded Ware Culture = Population Turnover/Migration

[Vesuvian Sky]

Paper is actually forthcoming but authors are presenting findings at ASHG 2014: (http://www.ashg.org/2014meeting/pages/sessionlisting.shtml)



Capture of 390,000 SNPs in dozens of ancient central Europeans reveals a population turnover in Europe thousands of years after the advent of farming. I. Lazaridis, W. Haak, N. Patterson, N. Rohland, S. Mallick, B. Llamas, S. Nordenfelt, E. Harney, A. Cooper, K. W. Alt, D. Reich.

To understand the population transformations that took place in Europe since the early Neolithic, we used a DNA capture technique to obtain reads covering ~390 thousand single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from a number of different archaeological cultures of central Europe (Germany and Hungary). The samples spanned the time period from 7,500 BP to 3,500 BP (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age periods) and most of them were previously studied using mtDNA (Brandt, Haak et al., Science, 2013). The captured SNPs include about 360,000 SNPs from the Affymetrix Human Origins Array that were discovered in African individuals, as well as about 30,000 SNPs chosen for other reasons (that are thought to have been affected by natural selection, or to have phenotypic effects, or are useful in determining Y-chromosome haplogroups). By analyzing this data together with a dataset of 2,345 present-day humans and other published ancient genomes, we show that late Neolithic inhabitants of central Europe belonging to the Corded Ware culture were not a continuation of the earlier occupants of the region. Our results highlight the importance of migration and major population turnover in Europe long after the arrival of farming.

[aherne]

That's sufficient to be inferred from phenotypes. There were no "nordids" in Western Europe prior to Corded Ware expansion.

[Vesuvian Sky]

That's sufficient to be inferred from phenotypes...

Not necessarily according to:


Conclusions: Indo-Europeanization of Central and Northern EuropeBoth Kurgan cultures and Corded Ware/Battle-Axe assemblage are incontestably Indo-European. There is no doubt either, that the Indo-European component of the Corded Ware must be derived stringently from Kurgan: there are irrefutable chronological facts proving the anteriortity of Indo-European manifestations in Kurgan, andthere is no room for polyphyletic hypotheses. Therefore, the problem of the origin of Indo-European traditions, as seen by Sulimirski (1970:155) ". . . An attempt to combine both ideas by deriving the Corded Ware cultures from the Yamnaya cultureproved to be futile . . .", is not relevant any further, except for the fact that it underlines the necessity to give more consideration to the immaterial culture in historical reconstruction.The fundamental question actually is: by which process diffusion or migration -did the transfer of this cultural package take place? It is not to play another round in the game "Diffusionists vs. Migrationists" (. . . and to see who can add another point to his score . . .). The whole relevance of the question situates at the economical, social, ideological and political level: What are the agents of cultural change, and what are its immediate consequences on the population simplied? From the point of view of physical anthropology, the modalities can be outlined as follows. On the basis of the arguments presented up to here, Indo-Europeanization of northern Europe (i.e. of the Corded Ware culture s.str.) cannot have taken place by a direct invasion of whatever extent of South-Eurasian Kurgan people. As demonstrated by Schwidetzky (in this volume) there are virtually no individuals within the whole sample of German Corded Ware people that would fit, statistically, into the South-Ukrainian Kurgan populations.

Source: https://www.scribd.com/doc/396654/Synopsis-of-the-Physical-Anthropology-of-Corded-Ware-Culture

[aherne]

Not necessarily according to:

Source: https://www.scribd.com/doc/396654/Synopsis-of-the-Physical-Anthropology-of-Corded-Ware-Culture

Coon and all other independent sources prior to "race is racism" times say the exact opposite. Purest specimens were further to the East (in the proto-Aryan homeland that corresponds to Samara Culture) and as they progressed Westwards, they became more and more diluted. Corded type is the basis for all "Nordid" types in Northern and Western Europe.

[Vesuvian Sky]

Coon and all other independent sources prior to "race is racism"....

The above was published in JIES, a journal known to not care about hurting anyones feelings.

Aside from Coon, who wasn't even a degreed physical anthropologist, who else based on metrical analysis of physical remains linked CWC to Kurgan culture via migration?