DISPLACEMENT AND EXTERMINATION DURING YAMNA EXPANSION by Alexander Zavialov Ther

DISPLACEMENT AND EXTERMINATION DURING YAMNA EXPANSION

by Alexander Zavialov

There are no official numbers regarding displacement/extermination in Central Europe (yet), but I think it’s safe to say that the vast majority of all male EEF in the Corded Ware cultural region were displaced or exterminated.

The reasoning behind this is that R1a and R1b are so utterly dominant in that region frequency-wise that the EEF Y-lineages barely exist there anymore. This means that even if the male EEF in that region weren’t displaced or exterminated, they were at least not able to pass on their genes anymore. Otherwise, we would’ve seen a lot more people with J, G2a and E1b1b1a etc.

As for admixture, the general consensus for now is that North Europeans were approximately 75% Yamnaya (with the rest being EEF-derived admixture) up until 3000 years ago or so, and then it dropped to 50-60% on average across all of North Europe.