Y-DNA Haplogroup R1a1a1a or L664

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General R1a Haplogroup (YDNA)

The main R1a haplogroup of R1a1a1 (R1a-M417) is the primary haplogroup of the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe, it spread with the Corded Ware culture, which centered in the southern Baltic region north of the Black Sea.

Northwestern European Branch of R1a (L664)

R1a Subclade >L664 (DYS388=10) A YDNA (paternal line) test can Identify which haplogroup your male line belongs. This information is for the R1a haplogroup with the subclad of L664. The subclad L664 is identified by the dys388=10 marker.

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Around 2500-2000 BC, subclade R1a-L664 split from the main R1a haplogroup (M417) and migrated south from the Russian Steepe area (steppe is the Russian word for grasslands) and were living mostly in what is modern-day Romania, Hungary, and Southern Germany and may have belonged to the “Corded Ware Culture” expansion, and possibly the “Yamana” Culture.

Around 1800 BC some members of this branch migrated north into southern Scandinavia where the subclade then splits into 2 branches.

While living in Scandinavia these groups were not “Scandinavian” per se but were considered proto-Germanic people groups at that time. Later they would be known as Germanic tribes.

They settled in the Scandanavian area of south Sweden for over two thousand years as their homeland while also migrating and expanding into modern-day Germany, the Netherlands, and Holland. The “Germanic tribes” originated in a homeland in southern Scandinavia (Sweden and Norway, with the Jutland area of northern Denmark, along with a very narrow strip of the Baltic coastline). Some of these tribes became known as the “Geats” which may have been an offshoot of the Jutes. The Geats derived their tribal name from a mythological ancestor by the name of Woden.

Around 200-300 AD some members of this line (possibly Geats) left Scandinavia and ended up in the British Isles. They may have come to Britain with the Roman army as mercenary soldiers, whether they were volunteers or conscripted as a conquered people is not known.

In this time period, around 250AD, there is recorded evidence that Germanic people came to Britain with the Romans to fight as mercenaries. Some of these mercenaries may have been Jutes. Germanic migration into Roman Britannia may also have begun much earlier. There is also recorded evidence, for example, of Germanic auxiliaries, called “irregular troops” that were supporting the legions in Britain as early as the 1st and 2nd centuries.

R1a-L664 Cousin Haplogroup Branches

R1a-Z645 makes up the majority of R1a individuals from Central Europe to South Asia.

R1a-Z283 is the main Central & East European branch.

R1a-Z284 is a Scandinavian subclade with an epicentre in central Norway. It is found also in places colonised by the Norwegian Vikings, like some parts of Scotland, England and Ireland. Several subclades were identified, including L448, L176.1, Z287/Z288, Z66 and Z281 about which little is known at the moment.

R1a-M458, primarily a Slavic subclade, with maximum frequencies in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, but is also fairly common in southeast Ukraine and northwest Russia. Its subclade R1a-L260 is clearly West Slavic, with a peak of frequency in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and radiating at lower frequencies into East Germany, East Austria, Slovenia and Hungary.

R1a-Z280 is also an Balto-Slavic marker, found all over central and Eastern Europe (except in the Balkans), with a western limit running from East Germany to Switzerland and Northeast Italy. It can be divided in many clusters: East Slavic, Baltic, Pomeranian, Polish, Carpathian, East-Alpine, Czechoslovak, and so on. It's subclade R1a-L365 is a Pomeranian cluster found also in southern Poland.

R1a-Z93 is the main Asian branch of R1a. It is found in Central Asia, South Asia and Southwest Asia (including among Ashkenazi Jews). R1a-Z93 is the marker of historical peoples such as the Indo-Aryans, Persians, Medes, Mitanni, or Tatars. Z93 also pervaded the genetic pool of the Arabs and Jews.

R1a-F1345 is one of the main Middle Eastern clades.

R1a-CTS6 is the Jewish subclade of R1a, which formed 3500 years ago and has a TMRCA of 2800 years.