Originally Posted by
rothaer
Chernigov I consider outside of the assumingly Slavic urheimat, but Lutsk is admittedly within. This sample is not very old, if I see it correctly. It's marked with MA for Middle Ages and if I recall that study correctly, they used that for depicting a time period after Viking Age (VA) and they even depicted a lot of samples VA that were completely uncertain wheter they were from wiking age or not. F. i. their Sigtuna samples. In the paper it's written that they were from 10th to 12th century and they just labelled them VA. (Viking age is according to common sense from 793-1066.) So I don't know from when the Lutsk sample, labelled MA is from, maybe from 1300 or 1400? However, this is so many centuries after proto Slavs that I do not yet se it as the problem. There can well have come some more southern people in the meantime. Note that Lutsk ist not very much southern shifted compared to what I assume proto Slav.
If there would be older such samples found, I'd agree that it would be a problem for my assumption. As my opinion is nothing what I wish, but just something that I think explains best what I know till today, I'll gladly adept to new findings if there appear some.
Iron Age Scytians would I not see as a problem as they can be tied to that ethnicity and we know what great area, also much more southern, they settled in. So that genetic can be expected without assuming that the Genetic of proto Slavs will have been like that. It's not impossible though.
Do you know the dating of the Lutsk sample and do you know from where that rumored bronze age "Ukrainian" is from?