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Afanasievo Genetics[edit]

Afternoon! Hope you don't mind me creating this page. The replacement text looks much more like an encyclopedia entry, and much less like an archaeogenetics supplement, which is definitely an improvement! We should probably say something about the several Z2103/Z2109s, which I do believe is remarked upon somewhere, but I can't remember where off-hand. But we can probably do without this for now. We certainly don't need a running total of every uniparental marker ever found in this culture, that's for sure. Thanks very much for doing the grunt-work over on the Cornish Bronze Age draft by the way, saved me a lot of time there! (Can't they make a robot to do that?) 😁 Tewdar 11:17, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Tewdar: Thanks for the feedback! I still plan to put the counts of uniparental haplogroups into a note; lazy as I am, I will just copy the "Study A has found that..."-structure into the note. Btw, I think what you're looking for is pp. 319 in the supplement PDF to Narasimhan et al.

I was inspired to sort the references by looking at my desk: if you don't have some kind of ordering principle from the start you will inevitably end up with a pile of mess 😁 –Austronesier (talk) 11:34, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also, it is good that you changed 'genetically indistinguishable' from Yamnaya to 'very close', which is more accurate. ~~Thanks for giving me the reference I was looking for!~~ Hmm, no, I thought there was another paper that more explicitly linked the Yamnaya/Afanasievo Y-chromosome haplogroups. Perhaps I imagined it...

You have a desk?! Cor, that's proper fancy! I usually just use a rock on the beach, or an old tree trunk, or something. (I'm not kidding) 😁 Tewdar 11:42, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm old(-fashioned), so I mostly work on my desktop PC. 'Genetically indistinguishable' was from Allentoft et al. (2015), and tbf, they probably couldn't have spotted the splash of WHG ancestry that distinguishes Yamnaya from Afanasievo; 'very similar' is literally from Narasimhan et al.

I'll do the change now. Let's see how soon it will be turned back into a mess :) –Austronesier (talk) 16:56, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]