20% Levantine Ancestry c.1400
16% Levantine Ancestry c.1500
12% Levantine Ancestry c.1600
8% Levantine Ancestry c.1700
4% Levantine Ancestry c.1800
2% Levantine Ancestry c.1900
~18-25 generations since 1400.
The Middle Eastern genetic pattern is Iranic though.
These finding are supported by ancient DNA evidence showing 0–3% Levantine ancestry and a dominant Iranian ancestry (88%) in modern-day AJs (Das et al.).
"Eastern European" would also include Crimean and Irano-Turkic genetics.
The major source of EU ancestry in AJ was found to be Southern Europe (≈60–80% of EU ancestry), with the rest being likely Eastern European. The inferred admixture time was ≈30 generations ago, but multiple lines of evidence suggest that it represents an average over two or more events, pre- and post-dating the founder event experienced by AJ in late medieval times. The time of the pre-bottleneck admixture event, which was likely Southern European, was estimated to ≈25–50 generations ago.
The Southern Italian story suggests a major 'Jewish' (Alexandrian?) migration event c.100 BC but not necessarily from the Levant (Palestine). In that context, a c.150 AD portrait from the Egyptian Jewish Fayum leads me to ask: Are some of these faces Jewish?
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-724311
