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Creaticia
11-17-2024, 11:33 AM
For example, it is known that the Natufians were only about 80-85% Caucasian.
Was this also the case for the Zagros? Or were they pure Caucasoids?

ScandinavianCelt
11-17-2024, 12:10 PM
"Neolithic genomes from the Zagros region of Iran are more similar to modern South Asians than to early European farmers. The Zagros Mountains were home to peoples like the Hurrians, Guti, Kassites, Elamites, and Mitanni.

The Zagros Mountains were a possible source of Eurasian ancestry in Central and South Asia. However, the inhabitants of Ganj Dareh in the Zagros Mountains made little direct genetic contribution to modern European populations.

The DNA of the Zagros mountains farmers most closely resembled that of living people from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran - and Iranian Zoroastrians in particular."

They are probably Northeastern-Iranian mixed with some ANE.

I show they score this on a global calc:

Middle East
49.40%
Iranian Mazandarani

South Asia
46.00%
Punjabi Jatt

South Asia
2.20%
Pashtun

Africa West
1.40%
Esan Nigeria

Africa East
0.60%
Luhya Kenya

Africa Central
0.40%
Mbuti

ScandinavianCelt
11-17-2024, 12:20 PM
https://youtu.be/QbIvB9GdImU?si=hL9T0bdaFu2PrSsj