>>12603777Yamnaya are a mix of Northeastern and Caucasian Hunter-Gatherers that coalesced to form steppe nomads who eventually went on to domesticate the Horse and invent the wheel as early as 4000 B.C. Needless to say, this gave them a massive advantage over their sessile, Neolithic neighbors who were more content to be matrilineal farmers rather than patriarchal pastorialists. These Neolithic Farmers arrived from Anatolia in the 7th millennium B.C and settled along the various river systems in southern Europe. These Farmers intermingled with Western Hunter-Gatherers at that time (a people they were over 35 000 years removed from by that point) throughout the Middle Neolithic until the elements of their civilizations in the archeological record were being replaced by new forms of pottery, building style, religious artifacts, and animal husbandry starting around 3000 B.C by a people we now refer to as the Yamnaya (or Aryans in older sources).
> what does this imply? The modern European is not a monolithic group. Different Europeans have differing proportions of Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherer, Neolithic/Near Eastern Farmer, and Yamnaya ancestry in their genetics. Meds are more NF, but the more north you go in Europe the more the proportions of Hunter-Gatherer and Yamnaya increase. Phenotypically, the Yamnaya would be a fairskinned people with dark eyes and brunette hair; however, intermixing with Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherers gave them fairer coloured hair, eyes, and skin. These Nordic peoples, especially by the time of their Bronze Age in 1700 B.C, are the ancestors of all Germanic people groups; however, similar mixtures in the Baltic and Finland resulted in similar looking sister-peoples that have slightly more Hunter-Gatherer admixture than the Nords albeit with additional miscegenation from Finno-Ulgric peoples in the order of 2%-10%
The history of Europe is fascinating, and hopefully we can cherish this diversity before it's drowned in hordes of shitskins
