Miro C
@MiroCyo
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History, Archaeology, Social & Physical Anthropology, Linguistics, Paleoclimatology, Oral Traditions & Mythology, and above all, Archaeogenetics!
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1. It is the best tool out there (for now), not a perfect tool. I'm aware of its flaws 2. Its not refit every time, its a fixed reference space built on a subset of SNPs from the 1240k set. You can project new samples ONTO it, but its not refitting the PCA each time 3. The
@MiroCyo One problem with euclidian distance of PCA like that is the distance will change whenever you refit the model (since the dimensions will change), and it is sensitive to the number of dimensions. Why 25? Most of those are perhaps noise. You can do some CV to figure out how many
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Middle Babylonian was Kassite (a central Zagros people with unknown provenance) and Neo Babylonian mostly Chaldean (another Levantine wave of migrants)
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Babylonians are Amorites that settled among the Sumero-Akkadians, and became Mesopotamian genetically over time (initially they were North Levantine genetically) The Proto East Semites ancestral to Akkadians and Assyrians were also North Levantine genetically
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Kurdish and Iraqi Jews are predominantly Mesopotamian genetically East Semites (Akkadians, Assyrians) and Sumerians are the basal reference for Bronze Age Mesopotamians Don’t confuse relatedness, ancestry, culture, and ethnicity. All overlap but all are different
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Forgot to mention the sample is R-Z2103 and has minor South Caucasus ancestry (proximal culture responsible for this is difficult to figure out for now)
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It's just obvious at this point that Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians (and possibly Sumerians if the low cov sample isnt Akkadian admixed), were Ben Gvir
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Here is the unpublished sample from the Battle of Nineveh. It is a Neo-Assyrian soldier IIRC Again against all modern ethnic groups No need to claim its a scam, I'm going to start posting the study authors that sampled these. This one was sampled by: Shamoon-Pour, Michel
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Genetic distances to the unpublished Sumerian sample. It is low coverage so it is noisy.. will be further out in distance than a good high quality average Will post the Jewish burials from Jerusalem, Modin, etc later. Interestingly some have Ancient Egyptian ancestry (Modin)
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fyi the tool can be easily misused You must model populations proximally with well curated averages that are potentially immediately ancestral to the relevant groups You must aim for a ~1% fit for high quality averages and ~2% fit for high quality individuals, without overfit
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Cultures in Contact: Prehistoric Maghreb,Western Sahara,Pastoral Sahel and Southern Iberia (Zoom in) if you are in phone download the image,if you are looking at it from a pc click the "open in another tab" option
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The Carthaginians, initially originating from Phoenician settlers, established a formidable maritime empire centered in Carthage, in present-day Tunisia. They were known for their exceptional seafaring and trade expertise and dominated Mediterranean commerce, connecting Northwest
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From the perspective of the people of the Carthaginians, no modern ethnic groups are genetically nearly indistinguishable. Tetouan Moriscos (and likely other unsampled groups that are alike) are similar but moderately distinct from the Carthaginians. Most of the rest of the
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Some notes: The following *approximate* values indicate levels of genetic differentiation among populations (there is a key in the map): <0.03: Populations are nearly genetically indistinguishable. 0.03 to 0.05: Populations belong to the same sub-regional grouping within the
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Genetic distance of all modern ethnic groups to the unpublished Carthaginians (samples dated from 630 BC - 176 BC) Map is of 2024 ethnic groups, at various levels of zoom. X/Twitter makes it hard to read, so here is the link to the original images: https://t.co/MGCTql93h8
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The Guanche people were the indigenous inhabitants of the Canary Islands. Their agricultural practices were somewhat advanced and they cultivated crops like barley and kept domesticated animals such as goats, sheep, and pigs. Their society was also noted for its impressive
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From the perspective of the people of the Guanche, various Northwest African groups (among them usually coastal self-identifying Berbers/Amazigh) are genetically nearly indistinguishable. Various other groups geographically near to them in Northwest Africa are similar but
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