The R1b-L23/Late PIE expansions, and the ‘R1a – Indo-European’ association

I wrote a series of posts at the end of 2017 / beginning of 2018, to answer the wrong assumptions I could read in forums and blogs since 2015.

I decided not to publish them then, seeing how many successive papers were confirming my Indo-European demic diffusion model in a (surprisingly) clear-cut way.

Nevertheless, because I keep reading the same comments no matter what gets published, even in mid-2018 – the latest ones in our Facebook page (“was haplogroup X Indo-European?”), and in this very blog (“I see it very difficult to link Bell Beaker with Balto-Slavic, when now Balto-Slavic people are strikingly R1a-dominated”); and because I see even more misunderstandings and personal attacks, I have decided to publish them.

This way I will be able to explain my “R1b-L23/Proto-Indo-Europeans” theory with simplistic maps (however badly I hate such maps when I find them on Google searches), and I will also have a page to redirect those who don’t want to dismiss the “R1a – Indo-European association”, instead of answering comments about this question each time they pop up…

Here you have the links to the posts – and also on the menu above (there is a lot of rambling, because they are from a period of less clear data on Yamna and Corded Ware; today I would have never written such long discussions, they are mostly unnecessary):

Related:

• Massive Migrations? The Impact of Recent aDNA Studies on our View of Third Millennium Europe
• The Indus Valley Civilisation in genetics – the Harappan Rakhigarhi project
• The Great Hungarian Plain in a time of change in the Balkans – Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age
• The new “Indo-European Corded Ware Theory” of David Anthony
• The renewed ‘Kurgan model’ of Kristian Kristiansen and the Danish school: “The Indo-European Corded Ware Theory”
• Correlation does not mean causation: the damage of the ‘Yamnaya ancestral component’, and the ‘Future America’ hypothesis
• Globular Amphora not linked to Pontic steppe migrants – more data against Kristiansen’s Kurgan model of Indo-European expansion
• New Ukraine Eneolithic sample from late Sredni Stog, near homeland of the Corded Ware culture
• Something is very wrong with models based on the so-called ‘steppe admixture’ – and archaeologists are catching up
• Germanic–Balto-Slavic and Satem (‘Indo-Slavonic’) dialect revisionism by amateur geneticists, or why R1a lineages *must* have spoken Proto-Indo-European
• The Aryan migration debate, the Out of India models, and the modern “indigenous Indo-Aryan” sectarianism
• Heyd, Mallory, and Prescott were right about Bell Beakers