After a four month wait, my initial results have arrived today from Living DNA. The wait has, I feel been understandable for a launch company. The results are still limited to standard mode only.
Living DNA Standard mode
100% European Regional:
74% Great Britain & Ireland
10% Europe (South)
7% Europe (North and West)
10% Europe (unassigned).
Sub-regional:
39% East Anglia
8% South Central England
5% South East England
5% Lincolnshire
2.5% Cornwall
2.4% North Yorkshire
2% South England
1.9% Devon
1.6% Central England
1.5% North West England
1.3% South Yorkshire
1.2% Northumbria
3.5% unassigned Great Britain & Ireland
10% Tuscany (Europe South)
5% Scandinavia (Europe North and West)
2% Germanic (Europe North and West)
9.7% Europe unassigned.
My initial response? Enthralled and highly impressed. A little disappointed that the East Anglia percentage was not higher. I suggest 77% based on my documentary record. Living DNA gave it 39%. I still find that a very good result.
However... let's get this into perspective to 23andMe and FT-DNA tests. Documentary evidence suggests that I am 100% British over the past 300 years. 23andMe said 32%. FT-DNA said 36%. Living DNA gets it so much closer at 74%! That is a whole lot more accurate.
What about the remaining 26% on regional level, where do Living DNA say that comes from? All European. It suggests 9.7% unassigned European, 9.6% Tuscan (Southern European), 4.6% Scandinavian, and 2% "Germanic". The Tuscan is interesting, but I'm not convinced yet that it is not ancient and population based. The Scandinavian is also most likely ancient - in my opinion.
Two things please and impress me about my results on the sub regional level:
1) Based on documentary research, I estimate that 250 years ago, 77% of my ancestors were in East Anglia. Living DNA indeed, sees it as by far my largest sub regional percentage. At 39%, a little low, but very impressive. They correctly identified me as East Anglian.
My next main region, in my Family Tree, I have circa 12% ancestors from "South Central England". Living DNA saw this, and it is indeed, my second largest percentage at sub regional level. I get South Central England with 7.5% - incredible. The small "South England" would also tied to this line.
Then I get 5.4% South-East England. It could be over spill from the East Anglia ancestry, but I do have one 3xgreat grandfather Shawers In London, that I do not know the origins of. I wonder now?
Then it's "Lincolnshire" with 4.8%. Brilliant! I had a 3xgreat grandfather from the southern parts of Living DNA's Lincolnshire sub region. That fills my documentary record almost perfect. The small "Central England" percentage would also tie to this line.
Then follows a number of low percentages from all over Southern and Eastern England. They might tell a story, or might not. Surprisingly Cornwall and Devon show up in low percentages, as does Yorkshire. Did my Shawers line actually come from one of those regions? I have seen Shawers in Devon, Cornwall, Shores in Yorkshire, and Shawers in Lancashire.
2) What is excluded can also demonstrate the accuracy of such a test. No Welsh, Northumbrian, French, Normand, Irish, Scottish, or Iberian ancestry suggested. Not that I'd have any objection against descent from any of these, or anywhere - but that this test successfully sees that I am NOT descended from these close regions, is to my mind, a great success, and a vast improvement on any past autosomal DNA tests for ancestry by other businesses. The truth is, that the English are so like these other populations!
On mtDNA they get my haplogroup down to H6a1a.
They have not yet completed my Y-DNA analysis. I guess L in an English tester might have thrown them a bit.
No other DNA test has ever existed quite like this. My initial response is - an amazing test. The future of autosomal testing for Ancestry.
Hagbourne St Andrews, Berkshire. By Andrew Mathewson [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
I have recently become aware, that there were Brooker families, including John Brookers born circa 1722 in the parish of Hagbourne, only 5 km / 3 miles by road, from Long Wittenham, where my ancestor john Brooker, married to a Mary, fathered several children between 1749 and 1760. I'm here collating evidence and data. The problem is that there are TWO candidates for my direct ancestor in the same parish. One baptised 1721 (the son of widower, Elizabeth Brooker (nee Fox), and the late John Brooker), the other 1722 (son of John and Ursula Brooker (nee Deadman). I have to somehow decide which one it is, if either. Both families may descend from a Thomas and Anne Brooker, that were in the village, married before 1662.
1700 5 Jun HOLDER John Aston Upthorpe to BRUCKER Mary widow
1714 20 Jun JONES Edward to BROOKER Mary
1716 24 Feb BROOKER John to DEADMAN Ursula
1720 27 Nov BROOKER John to FOX Elizabeth
1721 3 Sep CHILD Luke to BROOKER Anne
1728 23 Feb BROOKER John to ACRES Sarah
Baptisms
1662 Apr 1 BROOKER John s. Thomas & Anne
1667 Sep 3 BROOKER Anne d. Thomas & Anne
1673 11 BROOKER William s. Thomas & Anne
1679 Apr 5 BROOKER Marie d. Thomas & Anne
1680 Aug 8 BROOKER Marie d. Thomas & Lettice
Gap
1696 May 21 BRUCKER Anne d. Thomas & Lettice
Gap
1712 18 BRUCKER John (no parents!)
1714 18 BRUCKER Anne d. William & Elizabeth
1714 24 BRUCKER Martha (no parents)
1718 May 4 BROOKER Mary d. John & Ursula
1719 Jan 3 BROOKER Elizabeth d. John & Ursula
1721 Oct 21 BROOKER John s. Elizabeth widow
1722 Dec 2 BROOKER John s. John & Ursula
1725 Oct 24 BROOKER William s. John & Ursula
1730 Dec 13 BROOKER William s. John & Ursula
BURIALS (FindMyPast Berkshire Burial Index)
30 Mar 1721 John Brooker St Andrews, Hagbourne (appears to be late husband of Elizabeth Fox?)
12 May 1745 John Brooker St Andrew, Hagbourne
4 jun 1783 John Brooker St Andrew Hagbourne
MARRIAGES (FindMyPast England Marriages 1538-1973)
23 Feb 1728 John Brooker to Sarah Acres, Hagbourne.
MARRIAGES (FindMyPast Sarum Marriage Licence)
02 Oct 1745 John Brooker to Ann Dearlough at Blewbury. grooms parish Hagbourne.
So,
Likely founder is Thomas Brooker & Anne married before 1662, OR Thomas Brooker that married Lettice Hide 1679, OR John Brucker and Martha Hews that married Oct 1694.
Both John Seniors (circa 1695) could have been grandchildren of Thomas & Anne Brooker. One, son of Thomas & Lettice. The other of John & Martha.
John Senior 1 married Elizabeth Fox in Nov 1720. He died Mar 1721! She gave birth to son John Junior 1 in Oct 1721.
John Senior 2 married Ursula Deadman in Feb 1716. They had children between 1718 and 1730 - Mary, Elizabeth, William (x2), and son John junior 2 in Dec 1722. He may have died May 1745.
Surviving in village was a John Brooker that married Ann Dearlough Oct 1745. Junior 1 or 2?
My John Brooker had children at Long Wittenham 1749 - 1760 with his wife mary (married circa 1748?) Included a Martha, Anne, John, Sarah, and Mary. Junior 1 or 2?
Gen 11: Thomas & Anne (mar. before 1662) Did the same Thomas later marry Lettice?
Gen 10: John (b. 1662. Mar. 1694 to Martha) John (mar Ursula 1716), John (mar Elizabeth 1720), William (b. 1673.)
Gen 9: John 1 (b 1721 John & Elizabeth) John 2 (b 1722 John & Ursula) William (John & Ursula 1725)
Resolution.
I need to see marriages of all John seniors (1694, 1716, 1720). Two could have been same guy (2nd as widower). I do think there were two John Seniors, because John & Ursula had kids contemporary to John & Elizabeth. Martha could have died, replaced by Elizabeth?
Update.
A member of the Facebook Berks and Bucks Ancestors and Genealogy Group, dug up the burial of Junior 1. Widow Elizabeth's young son tragically died, and was buried at Hagbourne 12th January 1723.
Now can I tie Junior 2 (son of John Brooker and Ursula (nee Deadman) to my ancestor, John Brooker, married to Mary, at Long Wittenham?
The Caucasus. By NASA/MODIS - Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=1939) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
I grew up in the age where archaeology was the main driver behind our understanding of the distant past. It still plays an important role in helping us to understand our human past before writing, and to sometimes correct our understanding of our past ever since the advent of writing.
During the past 24 months however, there has been a silent revolution. It has been read by what is inside of us, the story of human DNA, and a foray into exploring and mapping ancient human DNA. It is rewriting the prehistory of Western Eurasia.
First of all, we have to stop retaining ideas that somehow, Western Europeans are an isolate population. We are the result of admixture after admixture, across Eurasia. The DNA of humans from Ireland to Iran is strikingly similar. We are a combination of different admixtures from different populations that lived 1) North of the Caucasus, 2) South of the Caucasus, and 3) Europe. The Caucasus, as in the photo above, has been the great division between peoples, that allowed local Western Asian populations to divide, that then to admixed in both Western Asia, and in Europe.
This revelation is not yet widely known. Even many professional archaeologists remain unaware, or skeptical about this new tool. New migrations and admixture events are being discovered, into Europe, and across Eurasia that contradict previous consensus.
The Founder Populations
Europe
The latest evidence suggests that the earlier humans and their cultures of Ice Age Europe, did not survive all of the fluctuations in climate. A new genome arrived and established 14,000 to 7,000 years ago, as represented by the Villabruna Cluster of human remains. These last hunter-gatherers appear to have less Neanderthal DNA, and a closer relationship to Near East populations than did earlier Europeans. They may have migrated into Europe when much of the Aegean Sea dried towards the end of the Ice Age. These late hunter-gatherers may have contributed DNA to modern Western Eurasians both inside Europe, and in West Asia. When Early Neolithic Farmers arrived in NW Europe, it was probably the descendants of the Villabruna Type that they encountered. They may have admixed with them. A genetic legacy from these populations appears to be blue eyes.
South of the Caucasus
The Fertile Crescent spawned the Neolithic Revolution of Agriculture. A distinctive genetic "ghost" population that has been named the Basal Eurasians significantly contributed to their DNA, along with other hunter-gatherer populations within the area. Their descendants, the Early Neolithic Farmers, took agriculture, wheat, barley, sheep, goats, cattle, and pigs - along with pottery production, and polished flint axe heads across the Levant, to North Africa, Anatolia, and then on to Europe. Along the way, they may have admixed with the hunter-gatherer populations that they displaced. Today, their surviving DNA signal in Europe, is strongest in Sardinia, followed by the remainder of Southern Europe.
North of the Caucasus
Arable agriculture made only a temporary appearance on the Pontic and Caspian Steppes, but was soon replaced by pastoralism and a very different way of life. The horse was well adapted to life on the Steppes, and humans there domesticated it. Mounted on horses, they could control larger flocks and herds of livestock. They also introduced wheeled carts, enabling them to easily mobilise to the best pastures depending on season and climate change. They also encountered and mastered the new copper then bronze working technologies. Steppe pastoralists could range long distances across the Steppe Corridor across Eurasia. They were also adapting by natural selection to a dairy based diet, with a rising percentage of lactose tolerance into adulthood. A significant contribution to their DNA came from a group of Siberian hunter-gatherers known to population geneticists as the Ancient North Eurasian. The copper age archaeological culture associated with this genetic group is the Yamna or Yamnaya.
Yamna Culture Tomb. By XVodolazx (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
What happened in Europe?
Villabruna types entered Europe around 15,000 years ago, perhaps from the Near East. They may have replaced earlier groups of European hunter-gatherers.
Early Neolithic Farmers from south of the Caucasus, then spread into Europe around 7,000 years ago, both across the Balkans into Central Europe, and also along the Mediterranean coast, bringing agriculture and pottery. They may have at times admixed with hunter-gatherers within Europe. However, their much better abilities at food production created a wave of displacement that must have been hard to resist. They could rear so many more children. By 5,000 years ago, their descendants dominated Europe.
Eurasian Steppe Pastoralists from north of the Caucasus, then spread into Eastern Europe around 4,100 years ago. Why wasn't there a resistance from the Early Neolithic Farmers living there? Latest research suggests that the Steppe Pastoralists had contracted a plague strain known as Yersinia pestis from Central Asia. The current favoured hypothesis is that they may have accidentally spread this disease to less resistant Neolithic Farmer populations in Europe. Some plots in Neolithic activity do indeed suggest a crisis at this time. Therefore, the Steppe Warriors could easily dominate the depleted and weakened social structures of the Neolithic Europeans. They brought with them, an Indo-European language, that appears to be the ancestor of most present day European languages.
In Europe, the fusion had a clear sex bias, with many Neolithic mitochondrial DNA haplogroups surviving, while Steppe Y haplogroups such as R1A still dominate today. The fusion also seemed to give rise to a new archaeological culture known as the Corded Ware.
We know that the Yamnaya expansion didn't stop at all in Eastern Europe, it continued into Western Europe. A fusion culture may be the Bell Beaker of the Early Bronze Age. Again, a sex bias, with some mtDNA haplogroups surviving, but a strong dominance of Steppe Y haplogroups including the many clades of R1b. Indeed, some of this domination is strongest on the Western edge of Eurasia, in places such as Iberia, Ireland, and Scotland, where later admixture events failed to reach - but the Steppe Pastoralists had dominated, particularly in male haplogroups.
How does this relate to this East Anglian?
According to the latest K7 Basal-rich test by David Wesolowski of the Eurogenes Blog, my ancestral breakdown of my autosomal DNA, around 14,000 years ago would be:
57% Villabruna-type (Europe and the Near East)
29% Basal-rich (Middle East)
14% Ancient North Eurasian (Siberia)
My Y haplogroup (L-SK1414) ancestor would have most likely been an ibex hunter in the area of present-day Iran and Iraq, possibly in the valleys of Mesopotamia, and or the Zagros Mountains of Iran.
My mtDNA ancestor would have been Eurasian - by 4,400 years ago, a woman of the Yamnaya, on the Pontic and Caspian Steppes, in a pastoralist tribe.
So, you get where this is taking me. Step back into prehistory, and what DNA is revealing to me is that my ancestors were NOT all in Britain, or even all in Europe. They were scattered across Siberia, the Steppes, the Caucasus, the Zagros, the Middle East, the Levant, and go further back, to Africa.
Alternatively, the equally recent Global 10 test, run by my friend Helgenes50 of the Anthrogenica board, resulted in:
These two tests may not actually conflict, as they are essentially tests referring to the Eurasian populations of two different time periods, with different admixtures. The K7 Basal-rich test refers to my proposed ancestral populations towards the end of the last Ice Age. The Global 10 test refers to more recent admixture leading up to the Bronze Age.
Within hours of publishing my most recent hypothesis: Was our ancestor a Baloch Lascar, I receive news of an incredible rare event. Someone else on the FTDNA Big Y tested to Y Haplogroup L L-SK1414 (L1b2c). The sample belonged to a Druze genetics project, and was taken from a man from the Druze town of Zaroun (Matn District) in Lebanon. The project administrator told me "his ancestors -at least for the past 1000 years- should have been either residents in Mount Lebanon or migrated as many other Druze families from the Idlib region in NW Syria (Jabal el Summaq Mountain)".
The Druze
The Druze are a Levant community, dispersed primarily through Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. They consider themselves an Arabic culture, but they follow their own faith system, which according to Wikipedia: "The Druze faith is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion based on the teachings of Hamza ibn-'Ali, al-Hakim, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates and Akhenaten.".
What makes the Druze particularly interesting to population geneticists, is that they stopped accepting converts one thousand years ago. They marry within their community only. Therefore they potentially represent a snapshot of the medieval Levant population, without more recent admixture. A recent genetic study of the Druze confirms this history:
"The researchers also found that there is no evidence of new genes entering the Druze gene pool over the last 1,000 years. In other words, no additional groups from the outside joined this community. In addition, the researchers found evidence of genetic differences between Druze populations from different regions: Lebanon, the Golan Hights, the Upper Galilee and the Carmel Mountain. This strengthens the evidence that marriages take place only within each clan.
When they went further back in time, the researchers discovered another interesting finding. It came to light that, 500 years prior to the beginning of the Druze religion, around the 6th century AD and at the time of the birth of Islam, a genetic group began to take shape that formed the basis of the Druze community’s ancestors.
According to this study, the Druze genome is largely similar to the genome of other Arab populations in the Middle East. They also found a few genetic elements in the Druze genome that originated from Europe, Central and South Asia (the Iran region) and Africa.".
Studies have found that although a variety of both Y and mt haplogroups can be found in the Druze community, they appear to have been isolated for that time period. So a haplotype found within the Druze, would have been in the region of North-West Syria and Lebanon, during the 11th Century AD.
Druze Clerics During the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate era (late 19th Century AD). See page for author [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
How does this change my perspective on my Y origins into Europe?
L-SK1414 now looks more dispersed across Western Asia, from the Levant, to Pakistan. That might mean that my medieval Y migrant from Asia to England didn't take a Lascar route from the Persian Gulf / Arabian Sea after all. It could be that they traveled from the Levant along the Mediterranean, or even across Europe? They may not have a Balochi connection - they could have been of many Asian ethnicities. It's a good example of how easy it is to develop a hypothesis based on too little evidence.
As for the origins of L-SK1414, I'm now looking a little more south, and a little more central. Favourite suggestion now is Tigris and Euphrates Valleys, and the Zagros Mountains, in Iraq and Iran. L-SK1414 could have dispersed westwards to the Levant, and eastwards to Makran, SW Pakistan.
Here is the distribution of recorded Y haplotype L-SK1414 so far in Western Asia:
Note the centralised nature of the Iran / Iraq "Cradle of Civilisation" to L-SK1414. Could our Y ancestors have passed through Ancient Mesopotamia? Now there's an interesting thought!
Here I map the ancestral events as recorded on my Gramps genealogical database. These events can be baptisms, marriages, census records, etc. The larger the dot, the more events for that particular parish. I have modified images of Southern England from OpenStreetMap.org Copyright attribution-sharealike 2.0 generic.
My Mother's Ancestral Events.
This includes the recorded events for my mother's 134 recorded direct ancestors and siblings. As you can see, her known ancestry over the past 330 years has been incredibly localised! All English. All East Anglian. Almost entirely in Norfolk - with one line drifting back to nearby Suffolk. An incredibly dense cluster in East Norfolk, around the River Yare in Broadland. Sure enough second cousin and third cousin marriages have been detected in her tree.
My Father's Ancestral Events
This includes the recorded events for my late father's 116 recorded direct ancestors and siblings. A little more travelled over the past 330 years, although I feel that the events record has a bias in research to show this - as indeed, I estimate his known Norfolk ancestry over the past 330 years to amount to at least 70% of his combined heritage. Nonetheless, some of his lines trace back temporarily to London, then back mainly to Oxfordshire and the Thames Valley. All South-East English again.
None of this makes my family any more special than any other family anywhere else in the World, with any type of recent heritage and admixture. Indeed, the English are a particularly admixed population. However, in testing commercial DNA tests for ancestry, I feel that we offer a good reference sample of SE English, and even East Anglian Norfolk.
I'm particularly interested in how these commercial DNA companies are failing to discriminate ancient or population admixture, from recent (350 years) family admixture. Some populations they are able to detect with some certainty and accuracy. However, others such as the English, not at all. They are unable - despite their claims otherwise, to break recent autosomal admixture on lines over the past ten generations, from earlier, sometimes much earlier population admixtures.
I'm looking forward to seeing if the new Living DNA test fares any better, with it's rich British data set.
Comparing the ancestry results of two raw files from the same tester (myself) uploaded to DNA.land.
Myself. Paper trail and family history 100% SE English, mainly East Anglian. 249 direct ancestors named in documentary research.
23andMe result before phasing (spec mode): 100% European broken into 94% Northwestern Europe 3% Southern Europe 3% unassigned European
Broken down further to: 32% British & Irish 27% French & German 7% Scandinavian 29% Broadly NW European 0.5% Iberian 2.4% Broadly South European
23andMe result after phasing with one parent (spec mode): 100% European 96% Northwestern European 1.8% Southern European 2.2% Broadly European
Broken down further to: 37% British & Irish 22% French & German 1% Scandinavian 36% Broadly NW European 1.8% Broadly Southern European
FT-DNA Family Finder My Origins. 100% European
Broken down further to: 36% British Isles 32% Southern Europe 26% Scandinavia 6% Eastern Europe
Now I am comparing the two raw files for the same person, uploaded to, and analysed for ancestry, by DNA.land:
23andMe V4 raw file for myself on DNA.land:
100% West Eurasian. 77% North West European 19% South European (broken into 13% Balkan / 6.1% South/Central European 2.4% Finnish 1.3% Ambiguous
FT-DNA FF raw file for myself on DNA.land: 100% West Eurasian 75% North West European 25% Balkan
Just for more information:
My mother's 23andMe raw file on on DNA.land: 100% West Eurasian 80% North West European 10% South European (broken into 7.7% South/Central Europe / 2.4% Balkan) 6.4% Finnish 2.3% Sardinian 1.5% Ambiguous
Conclusion
Phasing on 23andme suggested that I inherit (in spec mode) nearly 1% Southern European from each parent. That each of my very East Anglian parents had a Southern European ancestor within the past 300 - 500 years is highly unlikely, considering 1) the paper trail, and 2) local history in this rural area. Therefore I feel that this reflects much older background ancestry for the local SE English population. Ancient DNA calculators also predict that I have higher than average levels of ENF/EEF than other local populations such as the Irish and Scottish, and lower levels of ANE. This appears associated with my Southern European flavour that some tests suggest as a minority percentage. FT-DNA suggested 32% Southern European! Some commentators have suggested that this might indicate significant French admixture to the SE English population, perhaps during the Norman and Medieval periods, carrying a southern signal higher into lowland Britain. Earlier admixture into Lowland Britain from the south, is also possible during late prehistory and the Roman period.
DNA.land has been noted for a bias to predicting both Balkan, and Finnish ancestry for testers, and my results are no exception. I feel that as with all current autosomal DNA test/analysis for ancestry, that DNA.land has a way to go. As with the other predictors, it is very successful at recognising me as 100% European (although ironically my Y-DNA is Western Asian). It is fair at spotting me as NW European, but NOT as successful as 23andMe. Below that level, once again it falls down - but I feel that this is understandable, as most predictors fail down for anciently admixed populations such as the English. They are far more successful at spotting for example, Irish/Scottish. For the English, we tend to be ripped across different European populations. The Southern European element is a particular surprise - but all of the testers so far have been confused by this background signal. Dienekes has himself, suggested Southern European DNA coming into England with the Normans:
I'm starting to settle with this hypothesis, although I still have some interest in possible Southern European admixture earlier.
Finally... The two raw files for one person, have produced slightly different results. The FT-DNA raw file has I believe, more tested (but different?) SNPs than the 23andMe file. It would be interesting to know the differences. DNA.land, using the FT-DNA FF file, does not see Finnish, or South/Central European, but enhances the Balkan.
Attribution: Fielding Lucas, Jr. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
This post is partly an excuse to upload and store the above creative commons image. My Y-DNA terminal SNP (L-SK1414) twin was a Balochi speaker in Makran, SW Pakistan. In classical times, Makran was located in the Kingdom of Gedrosia. It's almost ironic that an open source range of autosomal DNA testers on GEDmatch have been named after Gedrosia.
Gedrosia was a dry, mountainous country along the northwestern shores of the Indian Ocean. The indigenous name for Gedrosia is thought to have been Gwadar. It was conquered by the Persian king Cyrus the Great (559-530 BC). The capital of Gedrosia was Pura, which may survive today as modern Bampûr. In 326 BC, The Macedonian king, Alexander the Great disastrously crossed the Gedrosian Desert, on the return from his campaign in India, and lost 12,000 of his men to the savage conditions.
Image of Gwadar Bay by wetlandsofpakistan (Gwadar - West Bay) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
So, although the GedrosiaDNA GEDmatch heritage calculators may have little to do with the legendary land that may have been host to my Y ancestors, out of interest, how do our atDNA test results tally with the GedrosiaDNA calculators? These calculators are designed to measure Ancient Eurasian Admixture.
My results (using an FT-DNA raw file) against those of my mother (23andMe raw file).
My Eurasia K9 ASI Oracle:
39% Western Hunter-Gatherer
27% Early Neolithic Farmer
15% Eastern Hunter-Gatherer
12% Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer
7% SW Asian
1% Siberian East Asian
Mother's Eurasia K9 ASI Oracle:
40% Western Hunter-Gatherer
26% Early Neolithic Farmer
14% Eastern Hunter-Gatherer
12% Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer
6% SW Asian
1% Siberian East Asian
My Gedrosia K3 Oracle:
97.5% West Eurasian
2.5% East Eurasian
Mother's Gedrosia K3 Oracle:
96% West Eurasian
4% East Eurasian
My Gedrosia K15 Oracle:
40% Western Hunter-Gatherer
25% Early European Farmer
21% Caucasus
5% Burusho
5% SW Asian
3% Balochi
1% Siberian
Mother's Gedrosia K15 Oracle:
40% Western Hunter-Gatherer
24% Early European Farmer
18% Caucasus
4% Burusho
3% Kalash
2% Siberian
1% Balochi
My Ancient Eurasia K6 Oracle:
40% West European Hunter-Gatherer
39% Natufian
21% Ancient North Eurasian
1% East Asian
Mother's Ancient Eurasia K6 Oracle:
41% West European Hunter-Gatherer
38% Natufian
19% Ancient North Eurasian
2% Ancient South Eurasian
1% East Asian
Conclusions
We both appear to have inherited around 40% of our DNA from ancient Western (European) Hunter-Gatherer populations, nothing unexpected there. Western Hunter-Gatherers not only lived in Europe, but appear to have contributed to some later Eurasian populations such as the Yamnaya and Early European Farmers.
We both have low counts of Ancient North Eurasian - particularly my mother, who scores only 19% ANE (Upper-Paleolithic genomes from the Lake Baikal region of Siberia, identified as Malta, Afontogora 2, and Afontogora 3, dated to 17 to 24 kya). It has been noted during online discussions, that the English appear to have slightly lower percentages of ANE than do their close neighbours. ANE is sometimes used to indicate Yamnaya ancestry (ANE was a component), that spread from the Eurasian Steppes into Western Europe during the Early Bronze Age.
I have 3% Balochi compared to 1% Balochi for my mother. It may mean nothing, but it could just perhaps indicate something in the autosomes that associates on my paternal side with my Y-DNA story. The indicators (particularly K15) suggest that I have more SW Asian ancestry, presumably from my paternal side - again, it just could associate with what we know about my Y haplogroup L-SK1414.
We have around 24-25% Early European Farmer ancestry, representing early Neolithic descendants of an admix of WHG and "Basal Eurasians". This signal apparently peaks around 80% in modern Sardinians. However, the "Natufian" reference are higher - 38-39%. According to GEDmatch: "Natufian was an Epipaleolithic culture that existed from 12,500 to 9,500 BC in the area of Israel. They were derived about 50% from an original Out-of-Africa population, referred to as Basal Eurasians. If you are a European and show Natufian admixture, this does not imply that Natufians interacted with your ancestors. All it means is that Natufian like admixture was mediated to you via intermediaries, such as the early European Farmers from the Near East". I'm not sure what to make of that.
