The Ottoman-Era Villagers of Çapalıbağ

Çapalıbağ, near Yatağan in Muğla, was salvage-excavated from 2016 ahead of lignite mining, and its Muslim burials, boards laid over the dead in Islamic orientation, became the headline case for how Turkic ancestry reached Anatolia. These villagers carry little Anatolian Neolithic ancestry: roughly half is Caucasus hunter-gatherer-related, about 13 percent Eastern European hunter-gatherer and about 18 percent East Eurasian, a component no Byzantine-era Anatolian has. The mixing dates to about twelve generations before their lifetimes, close to the Seljuq expansion of the eleventh century. One man carries the Siberian and Central Asian paternal lineage N1a1, and one boy the East Asian maternal lineage A17. In them, deep Anatolian and Central Asian inheritance meet.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe.

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  Who were the Ottoman-Era Villagers of Çapalıbağ?

  The Ottoman-Era Villagers of Çapalıbağ (c. 1300-1650 CE, Çapalıbağ, Turgut, Yatağan, Muğla, Turkey) are one of the Historical figures entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 12 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe".

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  What does "matching" the Ottoman-Era Villagers of Çapalıbağ mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Are they my ancestor?

  No, and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near theirs in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to the Ottoman-Era Villagers of Çapalıbağ?

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