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Danube, first farmers: Iron Gates Mesolithic → Starčevo culture → Linear Pottery culture

Mesolithic hunter-gatherers lived at the Iron Gates of the Danube, and nearly half of their male lines are R1b. The farmers of the Starčevo–Kőrös culture carry other branches, above all G2a, and share only 13% with the hunters. Linear Pottery ware is linked to Starčevo, and the male lines agree: 61% in common, with G2a in the lead in both.

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Danube, first farmers: Y haplogroup shares of cultures that followed one another
How to read the chart

Each sample is cut to its ancestor at the chosen depth; a sample whose test did not reach that deep stays on its own branch. An asterisk: in this culture the branch also has samples further down. “A → B” is the share of A's samples with a branch of the same line in B: the same branch, its ancestor or a branch under it. A sample whose test stopped higher could belong to any branch under it, so it matches them. The frequency overlap sums the smaller share of every shared branch, such a sample's share split among the branches under it by their shares in both cultures together; it is less swayed by single samples. By age, a sample moves up to the ancestor whose branch had already split off by the chosen year (branch ages are Discover estimates), so every letter is cut at the same time. “Auto” takes the time of the oldest culture chosen, or earlier if a column would not read otherwise. Maternal lines follow the Mitotree tree of FTDNA Discover.

The chain in numbers #

Y-DNA, tree depth 6. Similarity is the overlap of branch frequencies with the culture before.

The chain in numbers
Culture Samples Leading groups Similarity with the previous
Iron Gates Mesolithic 24 R1b 45.8% (11 of 24, 95% confidence interval: 28–65%), I2b 25.0% (6 of 24, 95% confidence interval: 12–45%), I2 16.7% (4 of 24, 95% confidence interval: 7–36%) —
Starčevo culture 16 G2a 43.8% (7 of 16, 95% confidence interval: 23–67%), H 25.0% (4 of 16, 95% confidence interval: 10–49%), C 12.5% (2 of 16, 95% confidence interval: 3–36%) 12.5%
Linear Pottery culture 248 G2a 52.0%, C 13.7%, H 13.3% 60.6%

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