The origins of the Hurro-Urartians and an update on the possible source of haplogroup R1a-M17/M198 for the Indo-Iranians
the Kassites are said to be a group of people who are similar to the Hurro-Urartians in terms of linguistics the study by Lazaridis, Alpaslan-Roodenberg et al. 2022 noted how Levant_PPN related ancestry heavily increased with some samples reaching around 33% this ancestry might might be a representative of the reason behind the existence of non Indo European languages like Elamite aswell. the following information is from Supplementary Materials for The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe by Iosif Lazaridis, Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg et al. 2022 . Levant_PPN related ancestry was 9% on average during the existence of the Kura–Araxes culture while 1 samples had this ancestry at around 24% around that time. during the MBA 3 samples also had this ancestry at around 25%. during MBA to LBA it increased by a few more percentages with an outlier reaching around 19% with the averages reaching somewhere between 12-15%. and during LBA to EI...