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Bronze Age Migrations

The migration of people from the steppe to Europe during the Bronze Age and the impact on the distribution of R1b-Z9.

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R1b-Z9, or R-Z9 halogroup where does it come from ? is it germanic ?

(also written R‑Z19 in some trees) is a downstream branch of the R1b (R‑M343) paternal Y‑DNA lineage that sits within the U106/L48 sector of R1b, a lineage long associated with northwestern ; many inv...

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R1b1a1b1a1a1c2b2 is this subclade germanic, celtc or something else

The terminal SNP label cannot be cleanly equated to “Germanic” or “Celtic” in the way everyday language treats those terms, because R1b is a deep paternal lineage that split into many subclades long b...