Yamnaya MyHeritage results... Isn't there something wrong?

[reboun]

Yamnaya Gedmatch results show that they have a strong Caucasus Hunter Gatherer admixture but in the following video, they score zero West Asian.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZM1EbeVRLw&t=126s

Directly to the results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZM1EbeVRLw&t=126s

Isn't there something wrong?

[gixajo]

Yamnaya Gedmatch results show that they have a strong Caucasus Hunter Gatherer admixture but in the following video, they score zero West Asian.

Isn't there something wrong?


Finally someone has dared to tell the truth: the Yamnaya were all bald, like me.

My Heritage uses modern individuals as "reference"for its estimates, so comparing an ancient individual to modern ones may not give a very accurate estimate.

Or maybe it does...

I don't know very well how they knew that he had a mustache, nor that wearing a mustache would leave any clue in a skull. :p

[reboun]

Finally someone has dared to tell the truth: the Yamnaya were all bald, like me.

:D

[reboun]

Target: Yamnaya_KAZ_Karagash
Distance: 11.1239% / 0.11123867
38.6 Baltic
28.8 South_Asian
22.8 Irish_Scottish_Welsh
5.4 Finnish
3.6 Mesoamerican_and_Andean
0.6 West_Asian
0.2 Scandinavian

The results are different.

[Duarte]

I gotta tell ya, they're reconstructing faces now? What's next, reconstructing my grandmother's meatball recipe? I mean, who's got time for this? You got scientists over there in the lab, playing Picasso with ancient skulls, trying to figure out what these Yamnaya people looked like. Look, I'm Italian, alright? We've been eating pasta and making gestures with our hands for centuries, and I don't need a face reconstruction to tell me that! These Yamnaya folks were probably just like us Italians - bold, passionate, and possibly had a thing for sausage and peppers. I can picture it now, these scientists trying to reconstruct a Yamnaya face, going, "Ey, forget about it! Give 'em a nice Roman nose and some expressive eyebrows. Make 'em look like they know how to talk with their hands!" It's like a science experiment gone wrong. And what are they gonna do with these reconstructed faces? Put 'em in a museum next to Mona Lisa? I tell ya, these scientists need to take a break, go have a cannoli, and leave the faces alone. We already got enough people walking around with reconstructed faces. They're called Hollywood celebrities! So, scientists, do me a favor, focus on something useful, like figuring out how to make a pizza that never gets cold. Leave the Yamnaya faces to the imagination and let us Italians handle the important stuff, like keeping pasta on the menu! Capisce?

[ugochaves]

looks like a Tajik or an Uzbek, definitely not my ancestor

[ugochaves]

Finally someone has dared to tell the truth: the Yamnaya were all bald, like me.

My Heritage uses modern individuals as "reference"for its estimates, so comparing an ancient individual to modern ones may not give a very accurate estimate.

Or maybe it does...

I don't know very well how they knew that he had a mustache, nor that wearing a mustache would leave any clue in a skull. :p
Take this ancestor for yourself. He didn't impress me

[reboun]

I gotta tell ya, they're reconstructing faces now? What's next, reconstructing my grandmother's meatball recipe? I mean, who's got time for this? You got scientists over there in the lab, playing Picasso with ancient skulls, trying to figure out what these Yamnaya people looked like. Look, I'm Italian, alright? We've been eating pasta and making gestures with our hands for centuries, and I don't need a face reconstruction to tell me that! These Yamnaya folks were probably just like us Italians - bold, passionate, and possibly had a thing for sausage and peppers. I can picture it now, these scientists trying to reconstruct a Yamnaya face, going, "Ey, forget about it! Give 'em a nice Roman nose and some expressive eyebrows. Make 'em look like they know how to talk with their hands!" It's like a science experiment gone wrong. And what are they gonna do with these reconstructed faces? Put 'em in a museum next to Mona Lisa? I tell ya, these scientists need to take a break, go have a cannoli, and leave the faces alone. We already got enough people walking around with reconstructed faces. They're called Hollywood celebrities! So, scientists, do me a favor, focus on something useful, like figuring out how to make a pizza that never gets cold. Leave the Yamnaya faces to the imagination and let us Italians handle the important stuff, like keeping pasta on the menu! Capisce?

Yes. I also think reconstruction is out of the scope of science. Reconstruction is a kind of art.

[reboun]

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