Commentary from Dieneke's Anthropology Blog on another new paper [Hervella et al. 2012]
on Haplogroup U Mesolithic/Epipaleolithic
hunter-gatherers in Northern Spain:
50% of the hunter-gatherers
belonged to haplogroup U subclades, hence confirming for this region as
well [as was found in mesolithic Scandinavia] that this lineage was
over-represented in pre-farming populations ...
The mtDNA U haplogroup associated with many of the areas pinpointed in my autosomal STR results appears to be associated with scattered groups of Mesolithic/Epipaleolithic
hunter-gatherers.
Commentary from Dieneke's Antrolopology Blog on a new paper out in Science:
During the Neolithic period
there still existed foragers in Scandinavia who belonged to the Pitted
Ware (PWC) culture. These have been the object of a previous mtDNA
study, which found them to be strongly
differentiated from contemporaneous Funnel Beaker or
Trichterbecherkultur (TRB) farmers.
In another commentary by the same author,
The
authors sampled 3 TRB individuals from "one passage tomb, Gokhem, dated
to 5,500–4,500 years BP" which were found to belong to haplogroups H, J,
and T, and 19 PWC individuals "from three different sites on the Baltic
island of Gotland dated to 4,800–4,000 years BP" which were found to
belong to haplogroups J, T, V (one each), "Other" (two), U5 and U5a
(three each), and U4/H1b (eight samples).
U5b is my mtDNA haplogroup. So, it seems pretty certain that, of
these Scandinavian groups, I am matrilineally more closely related to
the Pitted Ware hunter-gatherer culture as opposed to the Funnel Beaker
or TRB farmers of mesolithic Scandinavia.
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