going through the claims regarding Steppe related ancestry in the BMAC outliers and Hajji Firuz IA
one of the claims made by the steppe theorists is the influence of the Sintashta people around 2000 BCE in the BMAC outliers in terms of genetics and that this proves an 'Indo-Iranian migration' and these are the samples they give as proof: BMAC outlier with Steppe MLBA related ancestry BMAC outlier with Steppe EMBA related ancestry these are their Y haplogroups and mtDNA haplogroups from The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia paper by Narasimhan (2019) the origins of these mtDNA haplogroups: https://www.yfull.com/mtree/R1/ The earliest Samples found for haplogroup R1B1 The earliest Samples found for Haplogroup U2e2a1d https://www.yfull.com/mtree/U2e2a1d/ notice how both of the samples have Y haplogroups that r BMAC derived and mtDNA haplogroups that are from the steppes when Y Haplogroups are something that proves language change in the world view of the steppe theorists. for more info on these steppe mtDNA haplogroups and their origin read th...