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Afroasiatic

Hello again. Yes I wrote that review article some years back. It was interesting to write, but I have not looked at it closely for a long time. The aim was to summarize a lot of loose threads for a "genetic genealogy" audience. The need it was trying to fill was a result of the fact that human population genetics literature has little or no review articles, and quite poor cross-referencing to the other disciplines it usually cites such as historical linguistics and archaeology. So it can be frustrating to read. I starting the article basically writing for myself. To write it, I ended up corresponding with some of the authors cited, so I learned a lot. It goes a little beyond mere summary by some simple speculating a bit about the language link to E-M35 and some of its branches, and also concerning material cultures such as the Cardial culture. (So my study became a bit too original for simply putting it into Wikipedia!) Concerning the language link, I found later that S.O.Y. Keita published an article asserting a similar link to Afroasiatic. Concerning the Cardial culture, in recent years E-M35 was found in a Neo-Cardial site in Spain. I can imagine that there is a lot more to the archaeological story than I uncovered. Although I corresponded with some very well-known names in the field I got the feeling that archaeology is a big field and that they are not all up-to-date on what each other is doing. So I would be interested to learn more if you want to mention anything. --Andrew Lancaster (talk) 07:28, 20 September 2013 (UTC)