How light-featured was the Globular Amphora culture?
Judging by the only data currently available, not very.
You often see the GAC referred to as the most depigmented Neolithic culture in Europe in online amateur aDNA circles. This is usually based on a series of phenotypical predictions made by the amateur blogger Genetiker back in 2018. He returned from a hiatus and launched adnaxp in 2024, and the predictions there are based on a very small number of SNPs and limited to the 1240k SNP panel. This causes results that often contradict phenotypical predictions you see in academic studies that include the original files with higher coverage.
The attached image shows the only data on GAC pigmentation that is currently available. Brown eyes, predominantly dark hair.
Light features were later selected for intensively in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Northern Europe.
12
4
1
1February 27, 2026 1.1K 10
