Scythians were genetically heterogenous

[Pandit]

No.

Scythians were diverse, most Scythians from Western Kazakhstan to Europe were dominantly Caucasian with minor East Eurasian admix.

The more East you go, the more East Asian admixed they became.

Samples from Volga Scythians / Sarmatians show that they descent from Sintashta with some Central Asian farmer and Asian admixture.

I know, i was waiting for pan turkic nuts to take my bait lol.

[Grace O'Malley]

what's a good fit %? i dont understand

Under 2 is obviously a good fit whereas 5 isn't. So I'm much closer to Bell Beakers than Scythians which I guess me being West European isn't too surprising.

[Pahli]

I know, i was waiting for pan turkic nuts to take my bait lol.

Give it a day or two, and they might be flooding this thread

[Borealis]

Got Y Dna results for these samples?

Hold on, I think they’re there I’ll check again soon.

[Daco Celtic]

This is my result looking at the different Beakers.

I don't suppose this is a good model because of overfitting.

"sample": "Custom:AGUser_Grace",
"fit": 1.7843,
"Bell_Beaker_CZE": 29.17,
,

Long live the Czech Republic Beakers! You did get a fair amount of Bell Beaker England. Pretty cool.

[Daco Celtic]

These are the 5 closest modern groups to Scythians according to MyTrueAncestry.

Bosnian - *Scythian (6.055)
Romanian - *Scythian (6.169)
Croatian - *Scythian (7.508)
Ukrainian - Scythian (7.537)
Macedonian - *Scythian (8.193)

[Token]

These are the 5 closest modern groups to Scythians according to MyTrueAncestry.

Bosnian - *Scythian (6.055)
Romanian - *Scythian (6.169)
Croatian - *Scythian (7.508)
Ukrainian - Scythian (7.537)
Macedonian - *Scythian (8.193)

Lol.

[Daco Celtic]

Lol.

Funny results? They are kind of random. I posted it because this is one of the few calculators that actually includes Scythian samples.

[Token]

Funny results? They are kind of random. I posted it because this is one of the few calculators that actually includes Scythian samples.

Totally dishonest results, i believe they used the Hungarian Scythian sample that comes closest to Europeans and is in all likelihood an assimilated native, just to please their European audience. Scythians were very heterogeneous but the ones from the Scythian core in the Samara region had more steppe IE admixture than Bell Beakers. This is how Iron Age Iranic nomads looked like before expanding in all directions.

[Daco Celtic]

Totally dishonest results, i believe they used the Hungarian Scythian sample that comes closest to Europeans and is in all likelihood an assimilated native, just to please their European audience. Scythians were very heterogeneous but the ones from the Scythian core in the Samara region had more steppe IE admixture than Bell Beakers. This is how Iron Age Iranic nomads looked like before expanding in all directions.

I think you are probably right that it was an assimilated native sample. One big problem is the labels (like Scythian) given to these samples can be inaccurate and misleading.