Tatsuya's archaeogenetics

The Iranian hunter-gatherers are among the more enigmatic lineages, with unclarified deeper roots. They fall broadly within the West Eurasian cluster, but are placed in an "extreme" position, displaying no strong genetic affilation with nearby Anatolian or Levant groups, pointing to deep divergence and or partial distinct ancestries. Their genetic makeup and formation remains unclear, but it has been agreed that they are primarily derived from a deep local, presumably Basal Eurasian source, and can broadly be modeled via either a three- or four-way admixture, including a Caucasus_UP component, an Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) component, and Önge-like component, and an Basal Eurasian component (Amjadi et al. 2025, Allentoft et. al. 2024, Lazaridis 2018 etc.). A hypothetical WEC2* component may make up a significant amount of ancestry for them, instead of the extra Basal+Önge input (Vallini et al. 2024); although WEC2 may be phylogenetically similar to K14, thus likely not cove...