«A small group not yet sampled»: критические замечания к новой версии «древнеямной экспансии»
“A Small Group not Yet Sampled”: Critical Comments to the New Version of the “Yamnaya Expansion”

Summary/Abstract: The article considers recent versions of the proposed by geneticists hypothesis of “Yamnaya expansion” in Europe. The author demonstrates that the data of Y-chromosome analyses, as well as the data of physical anthropology obviously does not agree with the supposed model of “population replacement” of Europe (even partial) as a result of late migrations from the area of the Yamnaya culture, already in the Bronze Age. Thus, the author suggests that the area in which the formation of the autosomal “Yamnaya component” took place was significantly wider than the area of the Sredny Stog culture, and covered very vast areas of both Eastern Europe (both its steppe and forest parts), and Central and (partly) Western.

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