Ethiopian aDNA (Axum n so n so)

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@Shimbiris @The alchemist

Lots to say. Most of the undated r medieval. Medieval Amharics look North Ethiopic, same for Axum (no surprises there). Really interested in the few that fall within PN cline.
 

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Lots to say. Most of the undated r medieval. Medieval Amharics look North Ethiopic, same for Axum (no surprises there). Really interested in the few that fall within PN cline.

Good to know on the Aksumites. An old Habesha friend asked me many years ago if the Aksumites could have looked "Arabian" and was perturbed by that possibility as he felt it wasn't as much his heritage as he grew up believing if so. I explained back then that their culture seemed too Cushitic influenced and like Habesha culture for them, in my humble opinion, not to already be heavily Agaw in their ancestry. Glad to see this will put the saaxiib at ease.
 

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Very interested in "Sourré-Kabanawa" (SK_1000BP in particular):
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Source:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/serv...as-an-islamic-gateway-to-eastern-ethiopia.pdf
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Sourre Kabanawa seems quite similar to @NidarNidar and I on vahaduo. He's just more Mideastern-shifted than us. View attachment 367553
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Sourre Kabanawa seems quite similar to @NidarNidar and I on vahaduo. He's just more Mideastern-shifted than us. View attachment 367553

The fact that he clusters with the PNs makes me think he's more Somali-like than anything else because in my upcoming AM post I did make a PCA where I cluster modern Horners with PNs and put up a more detailed (labeled) version on GitHub and you can see plainly that it's pretty much Somalis, Oromos and Afars who cluster with PNs whilst Habeshas are north of them alongside Sahos:

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Juxtapose that with:

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Pretty much just looks like a slightly MENA/Habesha-shifted Somali which makes perfect sense as the Gurage types had not settled in as much yet. Plus, my PCA above is of averages, there may very well be individual and totally normal Somali samples who cluster just as slightly north-shifted as him.

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What has me more curious is Sourre Kubanawa 1000ybp. Seems completely autosomally distinct from the 400ybp sample but not like Habeshas or Somalis in particular and doesn't cluster with them at all. Can't even see them in the PCA as they're probably layered under other samples. Wonder if they're more south or north.
 
The fact that he clusters with the PNs makes me think he's more Somali-like than anything else because in my upcoming AM post I did make a PCA where I cluster modern Horners with PNs and put up a more detailed (labeled) version on GitHub and you can see plainly that it's pretty much Somalis, Oromos and Afars who cluster with PNs whilst Habeshas are north of them alongside Sahos:

m8wHCRD.jpeg


Juxtapose that with:

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Pretty much just looks like a slightly MENA/Habesha-shifted Somali which makes perfect sense as the Gurage types had not settled in as much yet. Plus, my PCA above is of averages, there may very well be individual and totally normal Somali samples who cluster just as slightly north-shifted as him.

@The alchemist @Xareen @NidarNidar

What has me more curious is Sourre Kubanawa 1000ybp. Seems completely autosomally distinct from the 400ybp sample but not like Habeshas or Somalis in particular and doesn't cluster with them at all. Can't even see them in the PCA as they're probably layered under other samples. Wonder if they're more south or north.
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I think it relates well to what our brother Alchemist notes about the archaeology, no? That there were, from early on, Ethiosemitic types nearby who were shown to be eating things like pork next to the camel pastoralists (basically Somalis). But it's very interesting that it maybe seems like earlier Ethiosemites more admixed than current ones? Let's see when the actual samples are available, tho. PCAs can be wonky when scaled a bit like this.
 
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