The alchemist
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Ghaba is a Cushitic population.
Pretty much the picture is, that agro-pastoralist Cushites settled in the Nile Valley from southern Western Egypt over 7000 years ago. Ghaba was one of the earliest settlements of several, the other being El Barga which had similar overall osteological features. Kadruka was close to EBK_N geographically and subsequently temporally (4200-4000 BC), so the morphological overlap makes total sense, it being the descendants of people related to El-Barga, if not directly. All in all, these were generally coherent people and I would be extremely shocked if they were not Cushites.
Those exotic haplogroups are the result of contamination with more recent European and East Eurasian DNA.
I think only the L3e2b+152 and R0 might be real; one seems very West African but is in truth western Saharan, mediated by people heavy with ANA. R0 is common among MENA groups.
These are much later samples, mainly from terminal Meoritic, and one Napatan (TARP9B_oslo). To give you the gist, besides the H2a which is likely Egyptian, they fall in with the typical mtDNA of Somalis, i.e., Cushitic:
The Egyptian samples are part regional, part Levant. But I don't think this is a complete snapshot of, let's say, the first pharaohs.
That paper was low quality. I'm not sure why they give the rare samples to people with little experience. Why not outsource it to Harvard or Max Plank instead of a student?
Quick takes:
Ghaba is a Cushitic population.
Pretty much the picture is, that agro-pastoralist Cushites settled in the Nile Valley from southern Western Egypt over 7000 years ago. Ghaba was one of the earliest settlements of several, the other being El Barga which had similar overall osteological features. Kadruka was close to EBK_N geographically and subsequently temporally (4200-4000 BC), so the morphological overlap makes total sense, it being the descendants of people related to El-Barga, if not directly. All in all, these were generally coherent people and I would be extremely shocked if they were not Cushites.
Those exotic haplogroups are the result of contamination with more recent European and East Eurasian DNA.
I think only the L3e2b+152 and R0 might be real; one seems very West African but is in truth western Saharan, mediated by people heavy with ANA. R0 is common among MENA groups.
These are much later samples, mainly from terminal Meoritic, and one Napatan (TARP9B_oslo). To give you the gist, besides the H2a which is likely Egyptian, they fall in with the typical mtDNA of Somalis, i.e., Cushitic:
The Egyptian samples are part regional, part Levant. But I don't think this is a complete snapshot of, let's say, the first pharaohs.
That paper was low quality. I'm not sure why they give the rare samples to people with little experience. Why not outsource it to Harvard or Max Plank instead of a student?
