What was unclear in the article was this: they speak of the H haplogroup (which was mitochondrial) and then the wholesale change that occurred around 4,500 years ago. Was the H replaced or were autosomal markers replaced?
If the H was replaced, it means that something like disease wiped out most of the people; if H remained, but other markers replaced, it would mean that invaders came and killed the men and took the women (preserving the H). Which is it?
19 posted on 04/23/2013 7:11:51 PM PDT by Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must.)