Tolan K16 - Neolithic

Tolan K16 - Neolithic is a 16-way genetic admixture calculator built to illuminate deep, Neolithic-era ancestry across the globe. Using reference components that model major hunter-gatherer, early-farmer, and regional lineages—including European_EHG and European_WHG, Caucasus, Levant_Neolithic, Anatolian_Farmers, Iran_Neolithic, West_Farmers, Iberomaurusian, East_African, West_African, South_Indian, South_Chinese, East_Asian, Siberian, Oceanian and Amerindian—this tool decomposes a user’s genotype into proportions that reflect ancestries important during the late Paleolithic-to-Neolithic transition. Who it’s for: researchers, archaeogeneticists, ancestry enthusiasts, and curious individuals who want a historically informed view of the deep roots in a DNA sample. It’s designed to be accessible to non-specialists while providing meaningful components for experts to compare against published ancient genomes. What you learn: quantitative proportions of Neolithic-relevant ancestries; the balance between early farmers (Anatolian, Levantine, Iranian, West_Farmers) and local hunter-gatherers (WHG, EHG); signals of African, Siberian, East Asian or Oceanian input; and traces consistent with prehistoric movements such as the spread of farming from the Near East, North African substrata (Iberomaurusian), and eastern connections. These proportions help form hypotheses about population contacts, migration paths, and admixture events that shaped modern genetic landscapes. Context and caveats: the calculator models ancestry using Neolithic-era proxies. Modern samples carry later mixture (Bronze Age, historic movements), so results are best interpreted as contributions from ancient source types rather than precise genealogical statements. Tolan K16 is valuable for building comparative narratives, generating testable hypotheses, and situating modern genomes within the broad story of the Neolithic transition and global prehistory.