ShieldWolf
01-01-2025, 07:25 PM
A new paper has been published: Ancient genomics support deep divergence between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-European languages (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626332v1), 2 December 2024.
"We find a deep east-west divide of steppe ancestry in Southern Europe during the Bronze Age. Specifically, we show that the arrival of steppe ancestry in Spain, France, and Italy was mediated by Bell Beaker (BB) populations of Western Europe, likely contributing to the emergence of the Italic and Celtic languages. In contrast, Armenian and Greek populations acquired steppe ancestry directly from Yamnaya groups of Eastern Europe. These results are consistent with the linguistic Italo-Celtic10 (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626332v1.full#ref-10),11 (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626332v1.full#ref-11) and Graeco-Armenian1 (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626332v1.full#ref-1),12 (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626332v1.full#ref-12),13 (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626332v1.full#ref-13) hypotheses accounting for the origins of most Mediterranean Indo-European languages of Classical Antiquity."
"We find a deep east-west divide of steppe ancestry in Southern Europe during the Bronze Age. Specifically, we show that the arrival of steppe ancestry in Spain, France, and Italy was mediated by Bell Beaker (BB) populations of Western Europe, likely contributing to the emergence of the Italic and Celtic languages. In contrast, Armenian and Greek populations acquired steppe ancestry directly from Yamnaya groups of Eastern Europe. These results are consistent with the linguistic Italo-Celtic10 (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626332v1.full#ref-10),11 (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626332v1.full#ref-11) and Graeco-Armenian1 (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626332v1.full#ref-1),12 (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626332v1.full#ref-12),13 (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626332v1.full#ref-13) hypotheses accounting for the origins of most Mediterranean Indo-European languages of Classical Antiquity."