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On the Origin of the Germanic Language, and why its not from Sweden, Finland or the Baltics. A Thorough examination of McColl et al. 2026 and the Archaeogenetic record regarding haplogroup I1:

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Map of ancient I1 samples predating the Demographic explosion of I1-DF29 in 2500bc. I1-DF29 is the ancestor of all modern I1 individuals. The sample OST003 in Northern Germany possibly represents the population ancestral to I1-DF29 as OST003 sits directly upstream of it (I1-L840, with S63>DF29 being directly downstream) The two samples from Warburg, Germany (KH2001xx) belong to a dead-end clade of I1 which has no modern descendants, showing that I1-L75 had diversity in Germany.

The problem with modern Y-DNA Datasets: Y-DNA difference between Self Reported Russians from Yfull, Russia total from Yfull, and Russia total from FTDNA. Both the totals show a massive overrepresentation of Haplogroups such as J2a, J1, and J2b, as well as G and E, due to a sampling bias of Jewish and Caucasian testers who usually test alot more than average Russians. Meanwhile, the Self Reported label is as the name says, Self Reported. It could contain Americans, Russogermans, or anyone else choosing, or choosing not to, to self-identify as Russian on Yfull. Neither can accurately reflect the true Y-DNA proportions of Modern Russia, however Self Reported is closer to the truth.

on Funnelbeakers, from the Article: The North was not the only direction the Funnelbeakers expanded. They also expanded rapidly to the East through Poland, reaching as far as western Ukraine. The Funnelbeakers were not the first Neolithic groups to colonize these areas, as they had already been settled by the LBK (Linear band pottery) Culture more than a millenium prior. The Funnelbeaker Expansion followed in a Exclavatory Leapfrog model: "In ‘old farming’ enclaves in the Polish Lowland the hitherto prevailing Neolithic culture was ‘liquidated’. The processes responsible included migration, diffusion, and infiltration of the ‘Meso/Neolithic’ TRB population, but perhaps most importantly ‘frontier’ contacts maintained among early TRB and late Lengyel-Polgár […]. In turn, in Lesser Poland and Silesia the ‘liquidation’ of the previous Neolithic culture was the result of leapfrog colonisation, frontier mobility, and infiltration. These processes were completed around 3600–3500 BC." Nowak 2019 Around 3700bc the Funnelbeakers reached the Ukrainan frontier and came into Contact with the Cuceteni-Trypillia Civilization, with which they traded heavily. It is likely that securing the carpathian trade route to the wealthy and advanced Cuceteni Culture played a role in their expansion. "some analogical materials have recently been identified in the Rzeszów-Przemyśl loess areas […]. One may presume, therefore, that it was from this region that early FBC ideas reached the upper Dniester. This presumption is supported by the similarity of flint raw-materials used." Contact with Cuceteni-Trypillia: In the case of Vynnyky-Lysivka and Leżnica-Czub, representing the close of the 4th millennium BC, there appeared FBC ceramics made similarly to the technology of TC serving ware […]. In this regard, the available sources confirm the process of both tripolisation of FBC pottery and beakerisation of TC pottery in western Ukraine.” And: “TC communities functioning around Ostrog had direct contact with FBC communities, adapting some technologies of Funnel Beaker pottery and vice versa.” Małgorzata Rybicka, Baltic-Pontic Studies 24 (2019–2020) It is therefore evident that Funnelbeakers traded and interacted with the Cucetenians to a heavy degree, mutually influencing eachother with frontier Funnelbeaker settlements undergoing a process of "Trypillianization". Trypillia wares produced in Volhynia traded within the Funnelbeaker Culture reached as far as Central Poland.

Evolution and Change in Paternal Lineages in Pre-Indo European scandinavia, from 8000 to 2800bc

Y-DNA Lineages of Scandinavian Hunter Gatherers (8000-4000bc), Funnelbeakers (4200-2800bc) and Pitted Ware Hunters (3200-2800bc) The Scandinavian HGs are the indigenous mesolithic population of Scandinavia, while the Funnelbeakers are the primarily EEF Neolithic Newcomers, carrying different clades of I2a1 only distantly related to the Scandinavian HGs. The Funnelbeakers brought Agriculture and Megalithic building to Scandinavia, themselves coming from the South, until they were replaced by the Indo-European Corded Ware culture coming from the East in 2900bc. tA lesser known third culture came to being around tha time, known as the Pitted Ware culture. Their Y-DNA is mostly in continuity with Scandinavian HG lineages and they represent a HG resurgance during the Decline of the Funnelbeakers. They were gradually absorbed and replaced by the Corded Ware Culture.

Simplified Map and Y-DNA of the Nordic Dagger Period (Dolktid or Senneolithikum), 2350-1700bc. This culture/period defines the transition between the Late Single Grave and Jutish Beaker group to the Nordic Bronze Age. The Culture formed out of an Autochtonous Single Grave tradition based on Imported French flint daggers, which the Dutch Beaker Culture innovated on using Copper to make Daggers, which was back-exported into Jutland where instead of Metal, the weapon-grade flint deposits of Lolland and the Limfjord were used to produce Lanceate Flint Daggers. In the Late Dagger Period (SNII), bronze from the Unetice Culture was imported on a large scale, leading to the development of the Nordic Bronze Age around 1800-1700bc.

Y-DNA of Hunter Gatherers from the Baltic, 6200-2600BC, showing quite clearly that Germanic I1 could not have come from them. This chart explicitly does not include Corded Ware individuals despite the late occurance of R1a. Those individuals are labeled as Comb Ceramic Culture.