Pages: 221-226 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp242221226 

Haplogroup E-M81 is now proposed to be dated around 2000 BP. However, an analysis of the historical context strongly argues against such a late dating. Apparently, this haplogroup, which shows a pronounced connection with the speakers of the Berber-Libyan languages, arose at the dawn of their formation, but after the separation of the Berber-Libyan languages from the Chadic (in whose speakers E-M81 is completely absent). Taking into account the calculations of the linguists on the dating of these linguistic processes, the emergence of E-M81 should be attributed to the time shortly after 8,000 BP. Apparently, we are talking about the Neolithic (Late Neolithic, or even earlier). Thus, haplogroups E-M81 demonstrates a very expressive case of discrepancy between the dating proposed by the geneticists and the historical and archeological data. 

Keywords: palaeogenetics, haplogroup, Y-chromosome, archaeology. Neolithic, Africa, Berbers

Information about author:

Aleksey Romanchuk (Kishinev, Moldova). PhD in Theory and history of culture. Institute of Cultural Heritage of Academy of Sciences of Moldova. Stefan cel Mare Bd., 1, Kishinev, MD-2001, Moldova
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ORCID: 0000-0002-2021-7958