Rh Negative Origins: The Yamnaya People

The Yamnaya culture, also known as the Yamna culture, Pit Grave culture, or Ochre Grave culture, was a late Copper Age to early Bronze Age archaeological culture of the region between the Southern Bug, Dniester, and Ural rivers, dating to 3300–2600 BC.

Claims that there was a 40% rh- frequency among the Yamnaya has only been a guess by a scientist often quoted. It did however alert enough people to assume that this is a fact. It could be, but again: It doesn’t help too much to present something without proof leaving us to guess or argue its validity.

They are also closely connected to later Final Neolithic cultures, which spread throughout Europe and Central Asia, especially the Corded Ware people, but also the Bell Beaker culture as well as the peoples of the Sintashta, Andronovo, and Srubna cultures. In this group, several aspects of the Yamnaya culture are present. Genetic studies have also indicated that these populations derived large parts of their ancestry from the steppes. Early Anatolian farmers would have had low percentages of rh negatives but Steppe individuals around 40% according to the now popular claims.

The Proto-Basques didn’t have Yamnaya DNA. The Yamnaya later invaded the Basques making them what is now one of the populations highest in the Yamnaya R1b y-DNA frequencies. So the question is as follows:

What were the blood type frequencies among the Proto-Basques before the Proto-Celtic invasion?

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Rh Negative Origins: The Yamnaya People

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