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by Simon Ström

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Europeans are a mix of Neolithic farmers coming in from the south, and the autochthonous Mesolithic foragers. Toward the end of the Neolithic the predominant genotype of Western Europe, extending homogeneously from Iberia to the TRB/Funnelbeaker culture in Germany, Poland and Scandinavia, was very similar to modern Basques; a mixture of what genetic literature calls Early European Farmers (EEF) and Western European Hunter-Gatherers (WHG). Notably, there was a pocket of pure WHG persistence throughout the Neolithic in the East Baltic region, which pulls Balts and Finns slightly away from their neighbors genetically today, toward the WHG. In most of Eastern Europe however, the so-called Steppe (or Yamnaya) genotype was predominant; also a mixture of northern hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists to their south, although both of these northern and southern components were more eastern shifted than their western counterparts, sharing significant affinity with Upper Paleolithic foragers from Siberia; the Ancient North Eurasians (ANE).

When the Proto-Indo-Europeans of the Yamnaya culture (/the geographically and temporally adjacent kindred of Yamnaya) had not only domesticated the horse, but also invented the world’s first viable wheeled vehicles, they expanded rapidly across the Eurasian steppe and spread the Anatolian language family (Hittite etc.) through the Balkans and eventually across the Bosphorus; and the Proto-Tocharian language family to the east of the PIE homeland (most likely represented by the Afanasevo culture).

All other known Indo-European languages, both living and extinct, including languages such as Latin, Greek, Sanskrit and Old Norse, share more features with each other than with the two previously mentioned branches and derive from ‘Late Proto-Indo-European’, spoken in the area of the Corded Ware phenomenon as a Western portion of Yamnaya (/Sredny Stog culture) ran over and mixed with the Late Neolithic farmers of the TRB culture (“Basques”), producing the modern North European genotype, which has not changed considerably since the Early Bronze Age. Although the area of Ukraine and south-central Russia was the Proto-Indo-European urheimat, the bifurcation hotspot (core area) of Indo-European language families shifted to the North European plain during its late phase, and the original dispersal of all currently living Indo-European languages were, therefore, profoundly implicated in the formation of the present-day North European genotype, roughly ~3,000 BC.

No population has a better claim to the Aryan label than Europeans, and especially North Europeans, whose western (“Basque”) ancestral component lives on in modern Iberia while the eastern component (“Yamnaya”, Proto-Indo-European) went extinct during the mid-Bronze Age expansion of the Proto-Indo-Iranians from Eastern Europe to Central Asia.