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Steppe admixture in Mycenaeans, lots of Caucasus admixture already in Minoans (Lazaridis et al. 2017)
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admixture
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aDNA
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Aegean
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Anatolia
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Bronze Age
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Caucasus
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Greco-Armenian
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Greco-Aryan
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Greece
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Greek
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Indo-European
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Minoans
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Mycenae
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Mycenaeans
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PIE
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Pontic-Caspian steppe
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Proto-Indo-European
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Sintashta
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steppes
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Over at Nature at this LINK. Why is the presence of steppe admixture in Mycenaeans important? And why does it matter if the Minoans already had a lot of ancestry from the Caucasus or surrounds? Because Mycenaeans were Indo-Europeans and Minoans weren't. I'm still reading the paper and will update this entry regularly over the next few days. Below is the abstract and, in my opinion, a key quote.
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