A new paper and samples from Mentesh Tepe in Azerbaijan will be released. Will quote cite the short description in this thread.
"Genome-wide analysis of a collective grave from Mentesh Tepe, one of the early Shomu-Shulaveri site in South Caucasus"
"The South Caucasus is at the outskirt of the Fertile Crescent, one the main centers of Neolithization. Despite this localization, Neolithic developed here only at the beginning of the 6 th millennium, and its origins remains unclear"
"Here we present genomic data for three new individuals from Mentesh Tepe in Azerbaijan dating back to the beginning of the Shomu-Shulaveri culture."
The Genetic History of the Southern Arc: A Bridge between West Asia & Europe"
Short quoted thread.
“Our comprehensive sampling shows that Anatolia received hardly any genetic input from Europe or the Eurasian steppe from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Age; this contrasts with Southeastern Europe and Armenia that were impacted by major gene flow from Yamnaya steppe pastoralists”
“In the Balkans, we reveal a patchwork of Bronze Age populations with diverse proportions of steppe ancestry in the aftermath of the ~3000 BCE Yamnaya migrations, paralleling the linguistic diversity of Paleo-Balkan speakers”