Anatoly Klesov: "DNA genealogy reveals the secrets of Veneti and Venedov"
Their oldest descriptions refer to Lydia in the west of Asia Minor, and to historical Three (off the coast of the Aegean Sea), which fell around 1260 BC
They were written about by Herodotus, Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Jordan, Procopius. They are often called “Eastern Wends” and are located in the territories from the Baltic (between the Vistula, Daugava, Upper Dnieper) and the lower reaches of the Danube, passing through the northern Carpathians. Their Slavic origin, as a rule, is not disputed. Moreover, they take the genealogical connection between the Wends and the ancient Slavs of the second half of the 1st millennium AD, including the Antes and the Claves.
Since the task of this essay is not to give exhaustive information on the Veneti and the Veneds, but to show what DNA genealogy can offer for consideration, we proceed to the DNA Y-chromosome strings supposedly left by the ancient Venets and their descendants.
There are no fossil DNAs of venets and / or veneds yet, so we will consider what our contemporaries have. The main question that we will consider here is who the Venetians-Venets were supposed to be in their haplogroups, and who their descendants are now.
The most pronounced and diverse among the Slavs - in relation to the branches of haplogroups - is the haplogroup R1a. In a study (Rozhanskii & Klyosov, Advances in Anthropology, 2012), 38 branches of the R1a haplogroup were identified in Europe. With rare exceptions, they begin (or continue) on the Russian Plain, with a common ancestor about 4900 years ago, but diverge along branches, whose common ancestors lived from the second half of the XNUMXnd millennium BC, and throughout the XNUMXst millennium BC. AD
Exceptions are the Old European branch (rooted in Europe on 7-8 thousands of years ago), the north-western branches (R1a-L664, the common ancestor lived more than 5 thousands of years ago), the Scandinavian branches (R1a-Z284, the common ancestor lived more 5 thousands of years ago), southeastern branches (R1a-Z93, common ancestor lived more than 5 thousands of years ago), migrated south (through the Caucasus to Mesopotamia, like Mitanni arias), to the southeast (and further to the Iranian plateau , as the Avestan arias) and to the east (and further south, to Hindustan, as the Indo-Aryans).
In general, there are about 20 branches of the haplogroup R1a, which are to the Baltic or the Carpathians, and which can be considered as candidates for Vened and / or Veneti.
Haplogroup I2a, expressed in southern Slavs, appeared after passing the bottleneck of the population, only at the end of the last era, and in the Baltic States there is little. This is an extremely unlikely candidate for Venetian Venetians.
The I1 haplogroup, which the Slavs currently have little, is also unlikely for Venetian venites. Of the 1052 haplotypes of the I1 group for which the country of origin is known (project FTDNA), total 28 in Poland (2.7%), 25 in Russia (2.4%), 5 in Ukraine (0.5%), three in Belarus and the same in Lithuania ( 0.3%), one by one in Serbia and Slovenia. Total I8 1 haplotypes from this sample in Italy (0.8%), 19 - in France (1.8%). Data from a recent sample of 1094 haplotypes in Belgium showed that the haplogroup I1-M253 was found there in 127 people, which is 11.6%. However, this is already the north-western sector of Europe, where the haplogroup I1 is most represented in the neighboring Scandinavian countries.
If additional evidence is obtained that weeds may be belonging to the haplogroup I1, then this possibility should be carefully considered. While this, we repeat, is unlikely. It should also be added that the haplogroups I1 (throughout Europe) and I2a (in Eastern Europe) are evenly distributed “over all”, and each has one common ancestor. In other words, there are no preferences for the host region of the common ancestors of I1 or I2a. Haplotypes are the same everywhere, the common ancestor of I1 is one for all in all of Europe, and I2a is one for all in Eastern Europe.
Considering the branches of the R1a haplogroup, it makes sense when looking for descendants of the Venetian-Venetov to pay attention to the following requirements: the most dense accumulation of carriers of this branch (or subclade) in the Carpathian-Baltic region, the presence of representatives of the same branch in Italy, and possibly in Brittany or on the coast of France.
Problems with such search criteria begin already in Italy. There are generally few haplogroup R1a, total 4% in the country, and 4.5% in the north of Italy. Italian R1a, respectively, are few and among the carriers of this haplogroup in Europe.
Note that all six Serbian haplotypes in the IRAKAZ database were from the North Carpathian branch (SC-1). Bosnian 12 haplotypes (SK-1) from 14 (the other two are Baltic L366 and Balto-Carpathian BK-1. Of the ten haplotypes of Croat, seven Balto-Carpathian (BK-2), and one Eastern Carpathian, and one Western Carpathian and Central European (M458). Such a relative abundance of haplotypes of the North Carpathian and other Carpathian branches on the Adriatic allows you to take a fresh look at the relative excess of Carpathian haplotypes in Italy (including Balto-Carpathian) - 10 haplotype of twenty, that is half.
Thus, the link between the Baltic territories and the Adriatic coast no longer seems to be something far-fetched, moreover, when ancient historians have descriptions of such a bundle. It is unlikely that anyone from the threshold will deny such a connection, and on the basis of what? Therefore, we take it as a working hypothesis that the haplotypes of the listed branches of the R1a haplogroup may be descendants of the ancient Venetian venites. It remains to determine the dating of the origin of these branches (more precisely, the times when their common ancestors lived), and who is now included in these branches, which dominant populations, from which countries. The main results of this analysis were very unexpected.
First, on the Adriatic (Balkans and Italy) the Baltic, northern (North Carpathian and North Eurasian) and Carpathian branches are represented or dominated, in which the Slavs are mainly represented (Poles and Russians).
Secondly, these Slavic branches have ancient common ancestors who lived in the 3rd millennium BC, the II millennium BC, the 1st millennium BC. No talk about the "birth of the Slavs" in the first centuries of our era, and even more so in the middle of the 1st millennium AD and can not be. The common ancestors of the modern (mostly) Slavic branches of the haplogroup R1a lived about 4900 years ago, at the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC.
Thirdly, it is not possible to isolate any specific “Venetian branch” from the branches of the R1a haplogroup. In all the Baltic, northern, Carpathian branches, Poles and Russians dominate, to a lesser extent Germans, still less Ukrainians and Belarusians, the rest are scattered throughout Europe in relatively minor quantities, and are not in fact representative in the Baltic, Carpathian and northern branches of the haplogroup R1a, the most likely descendants of the Wends and the Venets.
Fourthly, as a result of the third, the majority of modern Poles, Russians, Germans, Ukrainians, Belarusians of the R1a haplogroup can be considered descendants of the Weeds and Venets, although the relationship between the Venets and the Wends remains problematic due to the small number of carriers of the lengthy haplotypes of the R1a haplogroup in Italy.
We illustrate these points. First question - who could be the first Veneti of Troy and the Adriatic (according to ancient historians), if it was in the second half of the 2nd millennium BC, and if they belonged to the haplogroup R1a?
The subclade Z280 haplogroup R1a was formed about 4900 years ago. This is the so-called “subclade of the Russian Plain”. It accounts for 30% of all carriers of the R1a haplogroup in the IRAKAZ database containing 4049 haplotypes with identified snippets. The remaining main subclades of the haplogroup R1a are Scandinavian Z284 (27%), European L458 (16%), south-eastern Z93 (14%) and European North-Western L664 (10%).
In other words, the common ancestor of the Slavs haplogroup R1a, namely, they constitute the majority of the Z280 subclade, lived on the Russian Plain about 5000 years ago. There can be no talk about how they came from Dacia in the 2 century of our era. It is possible, however, that historians understand the Slavs as carriers of the haplogroup I2a (without understanding, of course, what I2a is and what the haplogroup is), and then it can be. Indeed, the haplogroup I2a was revived at the end of the last era (after passing through the bottleneck of the population, the period of which lasted about two thousand years), and was revived, apparently, on the Danube and the Carpathians.
The Carpathians were in the center of Dacia. But this is the youngest group of Slavs. Historians, in their limitless wisdom, are locked in precisely this very young, Danube Slavic group, and take it for all the Slavs of the 1st millennium AD. And Slavic languages lead from this group, and the history of the Slavs, and from there the dating of the 5th-6th centuries appears. AD as "the appearance of the Slavs in the historical arena." But these are mainly (or only) Slavs of the haplogroup I2a. The Slavs of the haplogroup R1a are not taken into account. And they have a history two and a half millennia old.
Where did the ideas of historians come from? Basically - from the same "Tale of Bygone Years", which was already mentioned above, and according to which (or interpreting which) historians derive Slavs from Illyria, now from Pannonia, now from Dacia, then from Norik on the eastern slope of the Alps. And as a result of these findings, taking into account the archeology of those places (which also most likely belonged to the Slavs of the I2a haplogroup), historians laid the foundations of the Slavs in the 5th-6th centuries. ad.
As soon as we comprehend and accept the relationship between the southern Slavs of the haplogroup I2a and the eastern Slavs of the haplogroup R1a, many contradictions are resolved - and the fact that the Slavs are much older than they are attributed by modern historians, and the close relationship of the Eastern Slavs (haplogroup of R1a) to the traditional aryrs, and the horny-old and old art historians. , and the close relationship of the Eastern Slavs with the Scythians, close relatives of the Aryans, and the correct understanding of the terms "Avestani Aryans" (they are also "Iranians"), "Indo-Aryans", "Mitanni Aryans", not as linguistic terms s, as well as hereditary, genealogy, showing a generic touch with modern ethnic Russian.
And ethnic Russians are, by definition, those for whom the Russian language is native, as was native for their ancestors for generations inland, and who live on the territory of the modern Russian Federation within the boundaries of the historic Russian State.
The common ancestor of the North Eurasian subclade Z92 lived almost a thousand years before the Trojan War, and his descendants, with the descendants of the two main descending subclades, could easily have made up a contingent of Venets - except, of course, the youngest subclades.
So, if the subclade R1a-Z92 is really Venetian, and its common ancestor lived at the junction of III and II thousand BC, its subsidiaries 3100-3200 DNA lines years ago, that is, approximately at the end of II thousand BC. er, it does not contradict the testimony of ancient historians. The older DNA line, Z92, currently includes descendants mainly from Poland (36%), Russia (20%), Germany, Ukraine, and Lithuania (7%), the rest of the haplotypes (23% of all) are single by ten regions of Europe. Younger DNA lines have a different population structure, and include the haplotypes of Russia (52%), Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania (8%), Belarus and Finland (6%), England (4%), the rest are single haplotypes ( in Germany, in contrast to the old branch, only three haplotypes of one and a half hundred).
So the assignment of the Venetian haplotypes from the beginning of the second millennium BC. Germany to baseless. They are of Eastern Slavic origin, with the exception of inclusions on the territory of modern England and Finland.
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