Fatherline (Y chromosome DNA)
This is my direct paternal heritage pasted from father to son via the Y-chromosome. It’s possible to trace this back to a common genetic ancestor (a Y-DNA Adam) who lived some 180,000 years ago, map migration routes that follow the mutations in the Y-DNA and show its distribution around the world today.
My MtDNA Haplogroup is G2a and belongs to the Subclade: G-Z726 on the DNA family tree.
My fatherline is linked to the Neolithic (New Stone Age) migrations from the Near East into Europe. Around 11,500 years ago G2 split into two branches G2b spread across Iran while G2a spread into Europe bringing new agricultural technologies (raising livestock and cultivating crops) with them. The G2a group is also linked to the Cardial Pottery culture (who used shells to print shapes onto clay) who migrated across the Aegean by sea to settle what is now known as Italy, France and Iberia.
Although largely restricted to the mountainous regions of Europe today, there are high concentrations of G2a DNA in Neolithic burial sites suggesting they were once much more numerous and widespread. One possible reason for this is that my tribal ancestors retreated to the mountains as a place of refuge during the Bronze Age, when Indo-Europeans invaded much of Europe from the Eurasian Steppe.
Today it’s most commonly found in Sardinia 12%, Cantabria 10%, Switzerland and Austria 8%, and Greece and Romania 7%. So appears to be centred roughly around Italy if not particularly common there today.
My MtDNA Haplogroup is G2a and belongs to the Subclade: G-Z726 on the DNA family tree.
My fatherline is linked to the Neolithic (New Stone Age) migrations from the Near East into Europe. Around 11,500 years ago G2 split into two branches G2b spread across Iran while G2a spread into Europe bringing new agricultural technologies (raising livestock and cultivating crops) with them. The G2a group is also linked to the Cardial Pottery culture (who used shells to print shapes onto clay) who migrated across the Aegean by sea to settle what is now known as Italy, France and Iberia.
Although largely restricted to the mountainous regions of Europe today, there are high concentrations of G2a DNA in Neolithic burial sites suggesting they were once much more numerous and widespread. One possible reason for this is that my tribal ancestors retreated to the mountains as a place of refuge during the Bronze Age, when Indo-Europeans invaded much of Europe from the Eurasian Steppe.
Today it’s most commonly found in Sardinia 12%, Cantabria 10%, Switzerland and Austria 8%, and Greece and Romania 7%. So appears to be centred roughly around Italy if not particularly common there today.