Cro-Meuse

On the heels of Stajnia: Meuse, long before the Belgica. Again, after the demic displacement.

These samples come from the late 50skBC down to the 43skBC. They form a subclade within the overall population which, as I noted, had already kicked everyone else out. But like ten millennia before so, plenty of time for further hunkering-down. Enough time that, in fact, they didn't inbreed (anymore); contrast the Altai or, indeed, certain Neolithic populations or, uh.

One throwback here is Couvin G6-0083 maybe 46kBC. This one's mum was from the "Thorin" tribe, who'd left the Grotte Mandrin 1600 remains a couple millennia either. The Couvin/Mandrin mtDNA preceded the displacement... by many tens of millennia. This suggests that the displacement wasn't total. Although yes, these ladies remained a minority population.

One point they make is that the population is so late they should have met... us. The future Cro-Mags. There is some evidence of this... in Cro-Mag graves, like Peștera cu Oase. But nowhere in Belgium. This is a contrast with (much) earlier generations where we do find some Y and Mt DNA... and in fact I understand that the Y and Mt DNA in even these Belgium samples derive from an ancient, perhaps Eemian event out of Africa which otherwise didn't take.

BACKDATE 6/26. Stuff happened the last couple days. Needed a break (also the press-release I'd found, then, was on lockdown).