>>5623407"western hunter gatherers aka WHG" are basically the main group of foragers who repopulated western Europe after the last glacial maximum, and by the looks of things emerged likely from the Balkans, it's not exactly known yet, since these WHG also show some still poorly understood relation with the middle east compared to older samples from before the last glacial maximum
overall they seem to descend from the main European hunter gatherer cline of diversity but the fine details are still quite vague
here is a pic from a recent academic summary about European genetic history
