Natufian Ancestry Map

Found this cool map highlighting the varying percentages of Natufian ancestry in modern populations.

According to this map, the Red Sea region [Southern Egypt, North Sudan & Eritrea/Northern Ethiopia] + Arabia is the bastion for this ancestral component.

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Found this cool map highlighting the varying percentages of Natufian ancestry in modern populations.

According to this map, the Red Sea region [Southern Egypt, North Sudan & Eritrea/Northern Ethiopia] + Arabia is the bastion for this ancestral component.

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Interesting
Land of Shams + Iraq have under 35% while the Arabian peninsula have above 50%

I thought semetic groups would have it above 50%
 

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On global25 we get 45%
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I wonder what reference samples were used for that map, our eurasian results get suppressed when mota is used as our African proxy so they probably used that
 
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Interesting
Land of Shams + Iraq have under 35% while the Arabian peninsula have above 50%

I thought semetic groups would have it above 50%
Semitics are a heterogeneous bunch, even Egyptians, Eritreans/North Ethios and North Sudanese have higher levels of Natufian dna than most Semitics groups in the Mid-East, excluding Arabia.

Those regions you mentioned have mixed quite extensively with other Eurasian groups, such as Neolithic Anatolians. Moreover, Iraq and the Levant have always been at the crossroads of migrations and invasions, so naturally their Natufian ancestry will have become diluted over time.

Whereas, Arabians [especially Southern Arabians & Socotrans] are nearly identical genetically to our Natufian ancestors. Our ancestors would’ve more or less looked like these guys:

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The reason why Yemenis and Arabians are scoring high Natufian is because the hunter gatherers of Arabia were Natufian like.

Other places had different hunter gathers like east Africa for example had mota like people and other SSA like Dinka related ancestry.

North Africa got diluted by foreign ancestries accross the Mediterranean. The Amazigh people have over 50% Anatolian/ early European farmers ancestry. This coupled with vandals, Germanic, Visigoth etc diluted their ancestry. Don’t forget taforalt had SSA ancestry which means SSA groups were also not far off to further dilute the Natufian like ancestry.

The levant had similar story if not worse. It’s literally the worlds crossroad. You had groups with Iranian Neolithic ancestry, Zargos, Caucasus HG, Anatolian Farmers etc in the levant.
 
The reason why Yemenis and Arabians are scoring high Natufian is because the hunter gatherers of Arabia were Natufian like.

Other places had different hunter gathers like east Africa for example had mota like people and other SSA like Dinka related ancestry.

North Africa got diluted by foreign ancestries accross the Mediterranean. The Amazigh people have over 50% Anatolian/ early European farmers ancestry. This coupled with vandals, Germanic, Visigoth etc diluted their ancestry. Don’t forget taforalt had SSA ancestry which means SSA groups were also not far off to further dilute the Natufian like ancestry.

The levant had similar story if not worse. It’s literally the worlds crossroad. You had groups with Iranian Neolithic ancestry, Zargos, Caucasus HG, Anatolian Farmers etc in the levant.
It’s almost poetic justice that North Africa and the Levant+Iraq took on the ethnic-cultural identity of the most Natufian rich people aka the Arabians.
 
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I think Islam was a big factor for that. But it’s good they got arabised. Egypt would have been indo European Greek speaking people lol 😂
I doubt the Egyptians would’ve ended up speaking Greek in this alternate reality, but they definitely would’ve been very Hellanised culturally. However, the Levant would’ve ended up as a Greek speaking zone.

Some other probable scenarios are Latin-speaking Berber lands and Iraq becoming a Persian speaking province of Iran.
 
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I doubt the Egyptians would’ve ended up speaking Greek in an alternate reality, but they definitely would’ve been very Hellanised culturally.

I think a more probable scenario would’ve been Latin-speaking Berber lands and Iraq simply becoming a Persian speaking province of Iran.

If you think about it Egyptians already lost the ability to read the hieroglyphics when the Arabs arrived. Their language was also going through heavy hellenisation . It would have been a big L for the Afro asiatic world 😂
 
If you think about it Egyptians already lost the ability to read the hieroglyphics when the Arabs arrived. Their language was also going through heavy hellenisation . It would have been a big L for the Afro asiatic world 😂
If you look closely at the map, there’s a certain area that needs Natufian enrichment :ftw9nwa:
 
Isn’t this map kinda flawed? natufian ancestry is more specific to Semitic ancestry while Cushitic, Berber and Egyptian Eurasian ancestry already existed and re entered Africa before the natufian culture even existed. wasnt there papers that confirmed that the bulk of eurasian ancestry in Afroasiatic Africans is similar to but distinct from natufian ancestry?
 

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I heard that our Eurasian ancestry is not entirely Natufian, they say this other Eurasian component resided in the Nile valley & were more related to Iberomarusians.
ive seen some users on anthrogenica even model our eurasian ancestry as a mix of Mesolithic Egyptian and Bronze Age levantine on qpadm. Apparently global25 over inflates our iberomaurusian affinity and suppresses other ancestries
 
The reason why Yemenis and Arabians are scoring high Natufian is because the hunter gatherers of Arabia were Natufian like.

Other places had different hunter gathers like east Africa for example had mota like people and other SSA like Dinka related ancestry.

North Africa got diluted by foreign ancestries accross the Mediterranean. The Amazigh people have over 50% Anatolian/ early European farmers ancestry. This coupled with vandals, Germanic, Visigoth etc diluted their ancestry. Don’t forget taforalt had SSA ancestry which means SSA groups were also not far off to further dilute the Natufian like ancestry.

The levant had similar story if not worse. It’s literally the worlds crossroad. You had groups with Iranian Neolithic ancestry, Zargos, Caucasus HG, Anatolian Farmers etc in the levant.
Berbers don't have "vandal" "germanic" or "visigoth" ancestry ...the latter didn't even settle there lol
 

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