Heatmappr

What ethnic group (modern or archaic) would you like to see on heatmaps next?

Turkish from Balikesir: result on the modern Genetic Proximity Heatmap tool n=7, max distance = 0.20

Turkish from Balikesir: result on the modern Genetic Proximity Heatmap tool n=7, max distance = 0.10

Ancient Macedonian (~372 BCE) results on Modern x Iron Age Genetic Proximity Heatmaps Vergina Tomb, Classical max distance = 0.20

Ancient Macedonian (~372 BCE) results on Modern x Iron Age Genetic Proximity Heatmaps Vergina Tomb, Classical max distance = 0.05

Ancient Macedonian (~372 BCE) results on Modern x Iron Age Genetic Proximity Heatmaps Vergina Tomb, Classical max distance = 0.10

and if this isn't Helen of Troy, then the war never happened: (Deva Cassel, Monica Bellucci's daughter)

Acceptable Odyssey cast Heatmap btw

Czech results on the modern Genetic Proximity Heatmap tool: max distance = 0.20

Czech results on the modern Genetic Proximity Heatmap tool: max distance = 0.05

Czech results on the modern Genetic Proximity Heatmap tool: max distance = 0.10

Funnily enough, despite being more Balkan-shifted, the average of those three corners actually captures fewer Turks than using Austria as the center. Fair point though: you picked a concrete, existing population. Mine is an abstract geodesic centroid. Still, I'd go with Basque_Labourd as the european-most. And Romanian_Transylvania as core European, controversial as it may sound.😆

@heatmappr mine is just trying to reach the population centre of Europe

My (subjective) definition of an European would be being at a lesser distance of 0.15 from an Austrian

I'd disagree on that in the sense that Europe is more ethno-political than a landmass division. I can't speak for Greek Cypriots, of course. I'm just using them as a modern proxy for an archaic population that I consider fundamental to what we understand as Europe today. Also, the average of those three triangle corners doesn't fall that far from Austrians, look (no sims):

I created an average sample based on the weighted population of each european country without counting immigrants, the result gave something near Austrian_Burgenland Thing is that most mixes in Europe between North and South give something near Austria. So using the country as a reference, you have the peripherical countries like Spain and Russia at the same distance. I just think that when using Austria and a 0.15 distance, we can include Cyprus, Sardinia and Latvia inside (since they are culturally and geographically european, althought Cyprus is actually in Asia)

@47Tolkien + I bet Thales of Miletus, founder of western Philosophy tradition, being from Ionia, would plot just like a modern Greek Cypriot.

An arbitrary cutoff, but not a meaningless one. Plot European populations on a PCA and they form a near-perfect triangle: Basques, Greek Cypriots, and Latvians at the three corners. Latvians are the closest people alive to WHGs, Greek Cypriots carry the ancestry of the civilizations that built the classical world. And Basques occupy the vertex furthest from everything else simultaneously

Ancient Israelite result on the modern Genetic Proximity Heatmap tool. Tel Kiriath-Jearim, ~640 BCE, max distance = 0.20

Ancient Israelite result on the modern Genetic Proximity Heatmap tool. Tel Kiriath-Jearim, ~640 BCE, max distance = 0.10

Hellenistic Greek (Tenea, 151 BCE) result on the Modern Genetic Proximity Heatmap tool. max distance = 0.20

Hellenistic Greek (Tenea, 151 BCE) result on the Modern Genetic Proximity Heatmap tool. max distance = 0.05

Hellenistic Greek (Tenea, 151 BCE) result on the Modern Genetic Proximity Heatmap tool. max distance = 0.10