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What do you mean? ANE mammoth hunters were not a dead end. There is a lot ANE ancestry in the Caucasus and Kurdistan. Their ancestry lives on in Northwestern Asians and they contributed to a genepool in the Caucasus and Kurdistan/Iran for about 1/4 in Northwestern Asian ancestry. I think that after 'The Last Glacial Period' (LGP), 12 thousand years ago, some mammoth hunters migrated into the Iranian Plateau, heavily mixed with the locals there and unleashed the Neolithic revolution.
And do you mean Y-DNA hg. R1a-Z94 right? Kurds don't have much of that Y-DNA lineage and that lineage is not that old. And not only just Kurds, but also all other Northwestern Iranic people such as Talysh and Gilakis. I wrote about them here: https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...92#post7525592
Kurds, like all other Northwestern Iranics, were already 'Western Iranic' Guto-Medes long before Parthian R1a-Z94 arrived in Kurdistan. Northwestern Iranic proto-Medes who were ancestral to all modern Northwestern Iranics predate Parthian and Scythians in Kurdistan. Parthians were just latecomers in Kurdistan compared to the ARYAN Guto-Medes.
Y-DNA haplogroups of Northwestern Iranics. As you can see, Northwestern Iranics aka ARYANS don't have a lot Y-DNA hg. R1a-Z94.
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