I am of the opinion that the rock art and the introduction of pastoralism to the Somali Peninsula was the work of an offshoot of South Cushites rather than by our direct East Cushitic ancestors. I also think these guys were the ones to have absorbed the LSA hunter-gatherer inhabitants of Somaliweyne who would’ve been pretty distinct from other EAHG groups. We likely then absorbed the offshoot as waves of us migrated south.
Probably off-topic, but I recall there's some similar paintings in Yemen, right? Were those dated? Lol, this potential proto-Cushitic explorer is interesting.
Not sure how this could even be proven (perhaps finding South Cushitic substrata in Somali?) but I recall seeing that at K=14, Somalis’ Nilotic-like (if we can even call it that) was best modelled as Dinka for the most part, but we also had varying layers of something better modelled Ethiopian Nilote (think it was Anuak) that wasn’t present in other Horners.
How about Omotic ancestry? I thought there is a layer of Wolayta in Somalis?
I'm a bit confused with this part: do southern Horners score more Ari-like or less? Among "mainstream Cushites", I'd assume Ethiopians score the most of this?
Btw, what's up with that Bejas having an instrusion of Somali-like profile? What paper is that? It'd be interesting. Maybe it's because of Pan-Grave? Pan-Grave was stated to be more "southern" in morphology compared to C-Group. But weirdly Somali skulls don't seem really "southern" in the Cushitic bunch.
Also, do you reckon that if OK Egyptians are sequenced they’ll be a decent fit for us? Would they have been without any Iranian that we seem to lack? That one low coverage 12th Dynasty sample could be modelled as Neolithic Levantine + IBM + >8% Dinka if I remember correctly.
I think Shimbiris said in that certain thread OK ones have little to no Iranian ancestry.
Regarding Nakht-Ankh, well bro, are you referencing Moe's model? He modelled it as this one below:
So it can either be modelled as this or some ~70% Natufian, ~10% Iran and ~7.8-8% nilotic according to the G25 model that's been spammed to death.
IIRC the two other models you showed me didn't use IBMs as proxies, or that when Natufian was applied, this dude didn't score IBM.