Overview
J2b-Z41833 is a downstream lineage of J2b-M241 with a demographic focus extending across the southern Balkans, the central Aegean basin and western Anatolia. Its earliest formation corresponds to the movement of early agricultural populations into the southeastern European littoral and the establishment of early maritime interaction networks along the coastlines.
During the Bronze Age, Z41833 appears in demographic frameworks tied to Mycenaean cultural zones, Aegean island networks and coastal Anatolian settlements. Downstream branches show strong microregional founder effects in Aegean islands, Adriatic-facing coastal communities and river valley settlements. Its persistence through the Iron Age and classical periods illustrates stable regional ties between the southern Balkans and the Aegean.
Geographic distribution
Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, western Turkey; low frequencies in Italy, Cyprus and the Adriatic region.
Ancient DNA
- Neolithic Balkan samples contain upstream J2b-M241 components consistent with early Z41833 formation.
- Aegean Bronze Age individuals show J2b lineages associated with related branches.
- Western Anatolian Bronze Age burials display continuity with ancestral nodes.
- Iron Age Aegean coastal populations exhibit downstream signals.
- Classical Greek communities preserve derivative microbranches.
Phylogeny & subclades
A Balkan-Aegean oriented subclade of J2b-M241 with strong coastal island and Anatolian diversification.
- Z41833*
- Aegean microclades
- Southern Balkan derivatives
Notes & context
Z41833 is important for tracing Bronze and Iron Age population networks around the Aegean basin.
References & external links