Are You Wondering Why Neolithic DNA Is Appearing on Gedmatch Results? In this post, learn why DNA from the New Stone Age could be appearing in Your Admixture Results
This article will teach you:
What Neolithic DNA means on Gedmatch Which Gedmatch Admixture Calculators report Neolithic DNA And finally, how to check if you possess Neolithic DNA
Exploring Gedmatch Admixture calculators can be both educational and enjoyable; providing a different viewpoint as to where your ancestors may have lived.
Gedmatch results provide us with useful and informative data; however, it may leave us bewildered due to their complex terminology. Population group names frequently refer to historical or geographic groups and regions which many people are unfamiliar with.
What Is Neolithic on Gedmatch? Its The Neolithic Period or New Stone Age began about 12,000 years ago. Population groups that display Neolithic characteristics on Gedmatch Admixture calculators such as Atlantic Mediterranean Neolithic in MDLP World 22 may correspond with studies of ancient DNA.
There are multiple calculators on this site that offer possible matches between ancient Neolithic populations and contemporary populations; however, these calculations don’t cover every geographic region in the world.
What do the various Neolithic populations mean on Gedmatch?
At present, Gedmatch offers nine Neolithic groups for comparison using its Admixture Calculators.
Some of these populations’ names refer to geographical areas that we recognize, like Greek Neolithic.
As for other populations, such as the Anatolian Neolithic peoples are less familiar. Their region spans what is today Turkey and Northern Syria.
Some populations may be known as Eneolithic populations. This term simply refers to an ancient but more recent Copper Age which began around 9000 years ago and marked a transitional phase between Neolithic Period and Bronze Age.
The Bronze Age is one of the eras in ancient history that we as modern humans most recognize. When thinking of it, one may picture Ancient Egpyt, Babylonia and/or Shang Dynasty when referring to this period in history.
The Eneolithic period serves as the bridge between our “modern” ancient cultures and Neolithic populations who had just started discovering agriculture.
What Does Neolithic DNA Mean? It would be more accurate to say that having Neolithic DNA means matching certain Neolithic population groups when showing it on Gedmatch.
Below, the individual shows about a 3.24 percent match with Atlantic Mediterranean Neolithic population.
This individual can trace most (approximately 90%) of their ancestry back to indigenous North and South American populations and possess Native American mtDNA and Y-DNA haplogroups; yet their autosomal DNA tests consistently reveal small percentages (5-10%) matching certain European, African, or Asian populations.
At least in some sense, we all possess Neolithic DNA. Every single person living on Earth today had an ancestor who lived somewhere during this period and contributed DNA that survived into modernity.
Your DNA came from both of your parents. And this DNA has been passed down from their ancestors over 400 generations – from Neolithic people all the way through our parents, then us!
Unfortunately, none of us will ever be able to trace back our family tree 12,000 years to the start of the New Stone Age; nonetheless it’s interesting to consider how we do still share a connection to some of our distant ancestors.
Which Admixture Calculators Report Neolithic DNA? There are currently three calculators on Gedmatch that include Neolithic populations as part of their results, such as those discussed earlier in this article. They include populations outlined earlier and are listed as follows:
If you have uploaded your DNA data file to Gedmatch, you can compare your kit (your DNA data file on the website) against Neolithic regions available to see if any match.
How to Check to See If You Have Neolithic in Your DNA on Gedmatch Doing a DNA match check could take only minutes on Gedmatch; once uploaded you could get results within minutes.
All that’s necessary for DNA comparison is your kit number and name/model of calculator you would like to use; multiple calculations could be run so as to compare results more precisely.
Select a calculator of choice; for instance, MDLP Project offers several calculators which may help analyze DNA. When selecting one of them to analyze your own DNA sequences, follow these steps.
Be sure to enter your kit number, then once you’ve selected your model click “Continue” for results that should appear within 30 seconds on the next screen.
Gedmatch offers users a convenient, free way to compare their DNA against ancient samples uploaded through Gedmatch, too!
Conclusion I hope that this post has provided you with some greater understanding about Neolithic DNA, and why it might be appearing on your Gedmatch Admixture results.
If you have any inquiries or wish to share insights gained from Gedmatch results, or wish to contribute your own observations – join us in this thread and participate!
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