I’ve been sitting on this thought for a while, and since it can be thought of almost like a prediction, it’s something I just want to air out. I won’t be checking what I write and it will probably be incoherent at times, and so yh…
Prediction: Ethio-Somali component will be best modelled by Predynastic and Edyn Egyptian
I first saw the anthropometric data and thought that it was interesting, especially considering the admixture event that resulted in Somalis happened in the general vicinity of the Naqadan and Badarian cultures.
And then the abstract to the new Kerma sample dropped and that really made me question how possible this would be. I think of the timeframe determined through linguistic means and ADLER or whatever that is known to suck, and it just wouldn’t make sense that way. But at the same time, the East Cushitic substrata in geographically removed populations from the East Cushitic urheimat could be explained away this way. Even still, I thought that if it’s not literally Badarian or Naqadan, Ethio-Somali will be part of the same meta-ethnicity (think: Natufian or Iberomaurusian).
I then remembered a reconstruction of Ethio-Somali that a friend of mine made that had it best modelled as ~87% Natufian and ~13% Iberomaurusian. I figured that once the Christian Urban study drops, I’d be able to run the samples through Vahaduo and or qpAdm and if the proportions were similar (though I had anticipated elevated IBM to account for putative Sabaean ancestry picked up in Ethio-Somali reconstruction), I’d probably be onto something. It seems, though, that that wasn’t necessary…
As some of you are aware, there was a study done on some 12th dynasty brothers, but the genome coverage sucked and it couldn’t be used officially or something idrk the specifics lol. Anyways, as it happens, they release the dataset to the public regardless and an Egyptian dude ran it through qpAdm and the proportions were exactly as I had anticipated.
Thoughts?
Prediction: Ethio-Somali component will be best modelled by Predynastic and Edyn Egyptian
I first saw the anthropometric data and thought that it was interesting, especially considering the admixture event that resulted in Somalis happened in the general vicinity of the Naqadan and Badarian cultures.
And then the abstract to the new Kerma sample dropped and that really made me question how possible this would be. I think of the timeframe determined through linguistic means and ADLER or whatever that is known to suck, and it just wouldn’t make sense that way. But at the same time, the East Cushitic substrata in geographically removed populations from the East Cushitic urheimat could be explained away this way. Even still, I thought that if it’s not literally Badarian or Naqadan, Ethio-Somali will be part of the same meta-ethnicity (think: Natufian or Iberomaurusian).
I then remembered a reconstruction of Ethio-Somali that a friend of mine made that had it best modelled as ~87% Natufian and ~13% Iberomaurusian. I figured that once the Christian Urban study drops, I’d be able to run the samples through Vahaduo and or qpAdm and if the proportions were similar (though I had anticipated elevated IBM to account for putative Sabaean ancestry picked up in Ethio-Somali reconstruction), I’d probably be onto something. It seems, though, that that wasn’t necessary…
As some of you are aware, there was a study done on some 12th dynasty brothers, but the genome coverage sucked and it couldn’t be used officially or something idrk the specifics lol. Anyways, as it happens, they release the dataset to the public regardless and an Egyptian dude ran it through qpAdm and the proportions were exactly as I had anticipated.
Thoughts?