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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13026783/

The Black Death pandemic, combined with the antisemitic climate of 14th-century Europe, led to widespread violence against Jewish communities, including pogroms such as the one in 1348 in Tàrrega (Catalonia, Spain). In the Roquetes necropolis of Tàrrega, six communal graves containing at least sixty-nine individuals, with signs of violence, were dated to the mid-14th century.

It was determined that this was a non-familial mass burial event: no first- or second-degree genetic kinship was found among analyzed individuals, and a significant fraction of the broader burial assemblage exhibits perimortem cranial trauma, indicating significant physical violence they endured prior to death.

The Roquetes individuals show high mitochondrial diversity (haplogroups H, J, K, L, M, R, U), contrasting with the narrow mtDNA spectra documented in medieval Ashkenazi communities at Erfurt (Germany), where strong founder effects and drift operated [20], and at Norwich, where elevated levels of consanguinity could also have influenced the genetic drift [21].

Among the four male victims, the study detected J2 (J2a2a1~*), E (E-CTS9507; E-Y231455), and G (G-PH1944/FT19393) haplogroups. These lineages have deep Neolithic–Bronze Age roots in the Eastern Mediterranean/Levant and adjacent regions and are frequent in Jewish diaspora groups [19,66,77,78]. The recurrence of E1b1b-lineages in medieval Jewish cemeteries (Erfurt, Norwich) and the presence of J and G among present-day Jewish groups further underscore continuity from Levantine–Mediterranean ancestry sources [20,21,78,79,80].

qpAdm identifies two-way models that fit the Roquetes population as a mixture of Canaan (labeled as Israel Middle/Late Bronze Age) and non-Jewish non-Islamic medieval Iberian populations (p = 0.158), with point estimates around ~0.69 for Levantine ancestry and ~0.31 for Iberian medieval ancestry. Among one-way models, only the Erfurt subgroup with Middle Eastern affinity is marginally plausible (p = 0.098), consistent with a Levantine-centered core plus Iberian admixture. Together, these results indicate that the Roquetes victims preserved a distinctively Jewish genetic signature while incorporating local Iberian ancestry.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13026783/

The Black Death pandemic, combined with the antisemitic climate of 14th-century Europe, led to widespread violence against Jewish communities, including pogroms such as the one in 1348 in Tàrrega (Catalonia, Spain). In the Roquetes necropolis of Tàrrega, six communal graves containing at least sixty-nine individuals, with signs of violence, were dated to the mid-14th century.

It was determined that this was a non-familial mass burial event: no first- or second-degree genetic kinship was found among analyzed individuals, and a significant fraction of the broader burial assemblage exhibits perimortem cranial trauma, indicating significant physical violence they endured prior to death.

The Roquetes individuals show high mitochondrial diversity (haplogroups H, J, K, L, M, R, U), contrasting with the narrow mtDNA spectra documented in medieval Ashkenazi communities at Erfurt (Germany), where strong founder effects and drift operated [20], and at Norwich, where elevated levels of consanguinity could also have influenced the genetic drift [21].

Among the four male victims, the study detected J2 (J2a2a1~*), E (E-CTS9507; E-Y231455), and G (G-PH1944/FT19393) haplogroups. These lineages have deep Neolithic–Bronze Age roots in the Eastern Mediterranean/Levant and adjacent regions and are frequent in Jewish diaspora groups [19,66,77,78]. The recurrence of E1b1b-lineages in medieval Jewish cemeteries (Erfurt, Norwich) and the presence of J and G among present-day Jewish groups further underscore continuity from Levantine–Mediterranean ancestry sources [20,21,78,79,80].

qpAdm identifies two-way models that fit the Roquetes population as a mixture of Canaan (labeled as Israel Middle/Late Bronze Age) and non-Jewish non-Islamic medieval Iberian populations (p = 0.158), with point estimates around ~0.69 for Levantine ancestry and ~0.31 for Iberian medieval ancestry. Among one-way models, only the Erfurt subgroup with Middle Eastern affinity is marginally plausible (p = 0.098), consistent with a Levantine-centered core plus Iberian admixture. Together, these results indicate that the Roquetes victims preserved a distinctively Jewish genetic signature while incorporating local Iberian ancestry.

The Steppe + ANF element is not secure and is likely inflated due to errors with the AASI Simulated coordinates. In-fact, these populations likely have no Steppe admixture at all, possessing only AASI, Iran_N, and a little ANE admixture.

Although there are populations in India with less West Eurasian (Such as the Munda populations of Orissa/Jharkhand), those groups have 10-30% Austroasiatic ancestry, whereas these groups are of pure AASI East Eurasian ancestry.

It should also be noted that the AASI of these groups is not the same as the AASI of the non-tribal populations. These are isolated tribes with a very peculiar shift in their AASI, which is shifted more towards Hoabinhian than the regular AASI is.

The tool used for this analysis was G25 (using the Vahaduo platform). Neolithic and other ancient genetic source populations (such as Iran_N, Anatolian Neolithic Farmer, and Steppe_EBA) were used accurately, as shown by the low distances (0.01 and 0.02).

What is quite interesting is that whilst trace amounts of East Asian ancestry is common to all Iranian samples (due to ancient Turkic or Mongolic peoples entering Iran), it is much higher in Azeris than it is in other Central and Southern Iranians. Their percentages are 5-6% whilst the percentages in other Iranians is 0-3%.

Although this is a tiny amount relative to their other ancestries (which are all in common with Iranians), it does show that the Azeris have more Turkic ancestry compared to other Iranians.

This would also seem to refute the claim (oft attributed to Mr. Ahmad Kasravi) that the Azeris of Iran were just Turkified Iranians. Whilst most of their ancestry is not Turkic, they have a more clear Turkic portion of ancestry relative to their neighbors. Hence, it makes sense why they held on to the Turkish language and other Turkic identities.

This is not a political post nor am I endorsing any political or seperatist ideology.