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. 2016 Jan 14;6:18932. doi: 10.1038/srep18932

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(A) Migrations occurred around 8,000 ybp of Early Neolithic people from the Near East to Europe carrying the main mtDNA (K1) and Y chromosome (G2a) haplogroups according to recent data on ancient DNA studies¹⁵,¹⁸. (B) Distribution of mtDNA K1 (circles) and Y chromosome G2a (rectangles) haplogroups in ancient samples dated > 5,000 ybp and their absolute frequencies. Site 1: Vinkovci Nama, Croatia²³; site 2: Treilles at Saint-Jean-et-Saint-Paul, France¹⁹; site 3: Derenburg-Meerenstieg II, Germany²²; site 4: Halberstadt-Sonntagsfeld, Germany²¹; site 5: South of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany¹⁸; site 6: Yamnaya, Russia²¹; site 7: Els Trocs, Spain²¹; site 8: La Mina, Spain²¹; site 9: Navarre, Spain³⁸; site 10: Avellaner, Catalonia, Spain²⁰; site 11: Gökhem, Sweden³⁹,⁴⁰; site 12: Köpingsvik, Sweden⁴⁰; site 13: Gotland, Sweden⁴⁰; site 14: Alsónyék-Bátaszék, Mérnöki telep, Lánycsók, Gata-Csotola, Bölcske-Gyűrűsvölgy, Budakeszi, Szőlőskert-Tangazdaság, Hungary²³. (C). Distribution and approximate frequencies of haplogroup G2a-L91 in Europe based on the data from Rootsi et al.¹⁷. Maps of Europe available from Wikipedia Common web page (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_political_map_Europe_in_2006_WF.svg?uselang=it#filelinks) were modified using Adobe Photoshop CS6 software.