Originally Posted by
Daos777
Well the Natufians were around 40 percent haplogroup E and they are a pre-Mesolithic civilization so that wouldn’t make sense that it only arrived in the Levant during the Mesolithic. Also the formation of E itself did not happen in Africa, the split of DE happened in the Levant and a lot of E back migrated to Africa and who knows were else E people headed after the DE split.
There are some Mesolithic samples of parent clades of E-V13 in Europe but it was only arriving in the Levant at that time?
Also the Druze are a very mixed people comprised of Anatolians, Armenians, caucasians, and some Jews. Who knows were their E came from?
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