{"id":43591,"date":"2011-09-14T20:59:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T04:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=13859"},"modified":"2011-09-14T20:59:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T04:59:43","slug":"otzi-first-but-not-last-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/14\/otzi-first-but-not-last-farmer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00d6tzi, first, but not last, farmer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/09\/g2a.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/09\/g2a.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"g2a\" width=\"511\" height=\"287\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13860\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dienekes <a href=\"http:\/\/dienekes.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/otzi-tyrolean-iceman-belonged-to-y.html\">relays<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%96tzi_the_Iceman\">\u00d6tzi the Iceman<\/a> carried the G2a4 male haplogroup. He goes on to observe:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We now have G2a3 from Neolithic Linearbandkeramik in Derenburg and G2a in Treilles in addition to \u00d6tzi from the Alps. G2a folk got around. He joins Stalin and Louis XVI as a famous G2a.<\/p>\n<p>It was already clear with the discovery of G2a in France and Central Europe, that this otherwise uncommon present-day haplogroup in Europe was more prominent during the Neolithic, and \u00d6tzi&#8217;s data point seals the case.<\/p>\n<p>In a sense, the triple G2a finds in Neolithic Europe confirm the origins of the European Neolithic population in West Asia, but renew the mystery as to how all the rest of the &#8220;players&#8221; of the European Y-DNA scene appeared on the scene, <b>with everything except G and I first appearing in the ancient DNA record after the end of the Neolithic.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, I believe that the Paleolithic-Neolithic dichotomy is more hindrance than help in understanding the European past (the Paleolithic itself may have exhibited more population turnover than we can appreciate). I suspect that the two most common European Y haplogroups, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haplogroup_R1a_(Y-DNA)\">R1a<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haplogroup_R1b_(Y-DNA)\">R1b<\/a>, underwent rapid increase in frequency over the past ~5,000 years. I do not believe that this is necessarily representative of the rest of the genome. The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/08\/1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan\/\">spread of male lineages<\/a> can be rather unrepresentative.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, \u00d6tzi&#8217;s genome is going to drop any day now. My prediction that it&#8217;s more West Asian than we might have expected seems more plausible, though less surprising and risky, at this point.<\/p>\n<p><i>Image credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.23andme.com\/\">23andMe<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/5mRIP7Yqoq0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dienekes relays that \u00d6tzi the Iceman carried the G2a4 male haplogroup. He goes on to observe: We now have G2a3 from Neolithic Linearbandkeramik in Derenburg and G2a in Treilles in addition to \u00d6tzi from the Alps. G2a folk got around. He joins Stalin and Louis XVI as a famous G2a. It was already clear with [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,9,481,1722,599],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-dna","category-anthroplogy","category-human-genetics","category-iceman","category-otzi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43591"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43944,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43591\/revisions\/43944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}