11 Facts About Steppe ancestry

Western Steppe ancestry Herders are considered descended from Eastern Hunter-Gatherers who reproduced with Caucasus Hunter-Gatherers, and the WSH component is analysed as an admixture of EHG and CHG ancestral components in roughly equal proportions, with the majority of the Y-DNA haplogroup contribution from EHG males.

WSH Steppe ancestry is more common in Northern Europe than Southern Europe.

WSH Steppe ancestry was found to have been carried into the British Isles by the Bell Beaker culture in the second half of the 3rd millennium BC.

Globular Amphora culture people were found to have no WSH Steppe ancestry, suggesting that cultural differences and genetic differences were connected.

Notably, WSH Steppe ancestry was detected among two individuals buried in modern-day Bulgaria ca.

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Crucially, the Botai culture of Late Neolithic Central Asia was found to have no WSH Steppe ancestry, suggesting that they belonged to an ANE-derived population deeply diverged from the WSHs.

Study found that WSH Steppe ancestry found among Late Bronze Age populations of the south Siberia such as the Karasuk culture was transmitted through the Andronovo culture rather than the earlier Afanasievo culture, whose genetic legacy in the region by this time was virtually non-existent.

WSH Steppe ancestry was found to have been almost completely absent from earlier samples in southern Central Asia in the 3rd millennium BC.

WSH Steppe ancestry was thus expected to have spread into India with the Vedic culture.

In Sicily, WSH Steppe ancestry arrived by ~2200 BCE and likely came at least in part from Spain.

In 2020, a study suggested that ancestry from Western Steppe Pastoralists was responsible for lightening the skin and hair color of modern Europeans, having a dominant effect on the phenotype of Northern Europeans, in particular.