Black African Origins Of The Ancient Greeks Parts 1 and 2
By: Dr. Anu Mauro
It was common knowledge in ancient times that the Greeks were a spin-off of ancient and most revered Ethiopians. The Greeks themselves recorded their much vaunted relationship with the ancient Ethiopians heros in their holy books which narrate accounts of mythological Ethiopian derived heros such as
Hercules, Persus, Athene, Cassopia, Andromeda etc.
Below are some relevant myths (edited) with ‘exploratory’ notes.
ONE
MYTH NO. 8 –THE GREEK MYTHS: VOLUME 1
THE BIRTH OF ATHENE
According to the Pelasgians, the goddess Athene was born beside Lake Tritonis in Libya, where she was found and nurtured by the three nymphs of Libya, who dress in goat-skins. As a girl she killed her play-mate, Pallas, by accident, while they were engaged in friendly combat with spear and shield and, in token of grief, set Pallas’s name before her own. (hence the name PALLAS ATHENE) — Pg. 44
NOTE ON TEXT — By Robert Graves
1. Plato identified Athene, patroness of Athens, with the Libyan god-dess Neith, .. the aegis…. a magical goat-skin bag containing a serpent and protected by a Gorgon mask, was Athene’s long before Zeus claimed to be her father. Goat-skin aprons were the habitual costume of Libyan girls, and Pallas merely means ‘maiden’, or ‘youth’. Herodotus writes (iv. 189):
‘Athene’s garments and aegis were borrowed by the Greeks from the Libyan women, who are dressed in exactly the same way, except that their leather garments are fringed with thongs, not serpents.’ Ethiopian girls still wear this costume, which is sometimes ornamented with cowries, a yonic symbol.
— Robert Graves The Greek Myths: Published by Penguin Books
2…….Herodotus indicates that the loud cries of triumph, olulu, ololu, uttered in honour of Athene were of Libyan origin. . — Robert Graves: The Greek Myths.
NOTE by Anu Mauro
3. This noise producing activity in our time is now actually called
‘ullulation.’ It is the yodel like celebratory cry quite common all
across south Saharan Africa among contemporary African female populations.
Also use of this cry is still retained in the African descended cultures in the Levant (Palestine Syria Egypt etc. ) –Anu Mauro.
NOTE ON TEXT — By Robert Graves
4. Pottery finds suggest a Libyan immigration into Crete as early as 4000 B.C. ; and a large number of goddess-worshipping Libyan refugees from the Western Delta seem to have arrived there when Upper and Lower Egypt were forcibly united under the First Dynasty about the year 3000 B.C. The First Minoan Age began soon afterwards, and Cretan culture spread to Thrace and
Early Helladic Greece. —- Robert Graves The Greek Myths: 1
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PART TWO
But then who were the Libyans and how are they also connected to Perseus and Andromeda and Ethiopians? …especially bearing in mind that Chemmis, located on the Nile was the name given to ancient Egypt and also translates as black or charred and that the entire continent of Africa west of Egypt
was know as Lybia in ancient times. The two word answer is ‘origins’ and ‘ancestry.’
GREEK MYTH 60 –THE GREEK MYTHS: VOLUME 1
BELUS AND THE DANAAIDS
a. KING BELUS, who ruled at Chemmis in the Thebaid, was the son of Libya by Poseidon, and twin-brother of Agenor. His wife Anchinoe daughter of Nilus, bore him the twins Aegyptus and Danaus, and a third son third son, Cepheus.
Aegyptus was given Arabia as his kingdom; but also subdued the country of the Melampodes, (blackfeet) and named it Egypt after himself.
b. Fifty sons were born to him of various mothers: Libyans, Arabians, Phoenicians, and the like. Danaus, (who was) sent to rule Libya, had fifty daughters called the Danaids, also born of various mothers: Naiads, Hamadryads. Egyptian princesses of Elephantis and Memphis, Ethiopians, and the like.
c. On Belus’s death, the twins quarrelled over their inheritance, and as a conciliatory gesture Aegyptus proposed a mass-marriage between the fifty princes and the fifty princesses. Danaus, suspecting a plot would not consent and when an oracle confirmed his fears that Aegyptus had it in his mind to kill all the Danaids, prepared to flee from Libya.
d. With Athene’s assistance, he built a ship for himself and his daughters – the first two-prowed vessel that ever took to sea – and they sailed towards Greece together, by way of Rhodes.
i. Aegyptus now sent his sons to Argos, forbidding them to return until they had punished Danaus and his whole family. On their arrival, they begged Danaus to reverse his former decision and let them marry his daughters – intending, however, to murder them on the wedding night. When he still refused, they laid siege to Argos.
j. When the siege was lifted a mass-marriage was arranged, and Danaus paired off the couples: his choice being made in some cases because the bride and bridegroom had mothers of equal rank, or because their names were similar – thus Cleite, Sthenele, and Chrysippe married Cleitus, Sthenelus, and Chrysippus
k. During the wedding-feast Danaus secretly doled out sharp pins which his daughters were to conceal in their hair; and at midnight each stabbed her husband through the heart. There was only one survivor; on Artemis’s advice, Hypermnestra saved the life of Lynceus, because he had spared her maidenhead; and helped him in his flight to the city of Lyncea, sixty furlongs away.
1. The murdered men’s heads were buried at Lema, and their bodies given full funeral honours below the walls of Argos; ….Athene and Hermes purified the Danaids in the Lemaean Lake with Zeus’s permission. Lynceus later killed Danaus, and reigned in his stead.
Meanwhile, Aegyptus had come to Greece, but when he learned lphis sons’ fate, fled to Aroe, where he died, and was buried at Patrae in a sanctuary of Serapis
NOTE ON TEXT — By Robert Graves
l. This myth records the early arrival in Greece of Helladic colonists (from Palestine, by way of Rhodes, and their introduction of agriculture into the Peloponnese. It is claimed that they included emigrants from Lybia and Ethiopia, which seems probable. — Robert Graves The Greek Myths: 1
NOTE ON TEXT — by Anu Mauro
This myth also clearly suggests that the children of Dana-us i.e. the Danaids were of African or Ethiopic origin on both their maternal and paternal sides…note their mothers place origins, as well as the paternal connection with Aegyptus, Cepheus and Belus. –Anu Mauro.
NOTE ON TEXT — by James Brunson
” Throughout the Greek legends, an Africoid or dark-skinned people are associated with Danaus and the Danaids. (The poet) Aeschylus’s, “Suppliant Maidens”, describes the Danides as “Black and smitten by the “sun”. (In the poem) when the Danaids claim an ethnic kinship to Epaphos, son of Zeus, the Argive king Pelops, rebukes them:
Nay, strangers, what ye tell is past belief
For me to hear, that ye from Argos spring
For ye to Libyan women are most like,
And no wise to our native maidens here.””
—- James Brunson : The African Presence in the Ancient Mediterranean: Isles and Mainland Greece Pg. 48 African Presence in Early Europe– Edited by Ivan Van Sertima
NOTE ON TEXT — by Anu Mauro
So this places Ethiopics not only in the early migrant populations that settled in Greece but the Danaid link can also be used to connect Perseus himself to dark skinned Ethiopic elements not to mention Andromeda and her parents . This can be gleaned from the next installment of Greek myth (Part 3) wherein the great-grand father of Perseus, his grandfather as well as his mother are shown to have had Danaaid (hence African) connections.
— Anu Mauro
“Shortly after this, three respected geneticists, Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Alberto Piazza and Neil Risch, argued that the scientific limitations of Arnaiz-Villena’s methodology.[13] They stated that “Using results from the analysis of a single marker, particularly one likely to have undergone selection, for the purpose of reconstructing genealogies is unreliable and unacceptable practice in population genetics.”, making specific allusion to the findings on Greeks (among others) as “anomalous results, which contradict history, geography, anthropology and all prior population-genetic studies of these groups.”
“The most comprehensive study of Y-chromosomal diversity in Europe thus far is Rosser et al., [1]. The human Y chromosome is passed on from father to son. One can thus study one half of a population’s ancestry (along the paternal line) by studying the Y-chromosome. Greek Y-chromosomes belong to haplogroups HG1, HG2, HG3, HG9, HG21 and HG26. None of the 35 Greek Y chromosomes are of non-Caucasoid origin.
A second Y-chromosome study including Greeks have also shown similar results. Helgason et al., [2] reports one HG16 sequence of North Eurasian provenance in a sample of 42 Greeks (at least 97.6% Caucasoid). To put this in perspective, eight HG16 chromosomes occur in 110 Swedes (at least 92.7% Caucasoid) and three HG16 sequences in 112 Norwegians (at least 97.3% Caucasoid) were also found. HG16 is shared by many populations ranging from Europe to Mongolia. Its origin has been placed by [7] in the Eastern range of its current geographical distribution.
A third Y-chromosome study, by Malaspina et al., [3] which included a sample of 28 continental and 83 Cretan Greeks (total sample size of 111) found no evidence of the presence of non-Caucasoid Y chromosomes in Greeks.
A fourth Y-chromosome study, by Semino et al., [4] included 76 Greeks and 20 Macedonian Greeks. One Eu6 lineage, corresponding to HG10/HG36 [5] is probably of East Asian origin. One Eu17 lineage corresponds to HG 28 which is frequent in Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent [6]. In total, admixture of 2.1% is detected (if we label HG 28 as non-Caucasoid).
A fifth Y-chromosome study, by Weale et al., [8] included 132 Greek students from Athens. The same haplogroups found in [1] were detected in this study. No non-Caucasoid chromosomes were found.
The most recent and comprehensive study of Greek Y-chromosomes, by Di Giacomo et al., [9] included 154 individuals from continental Greece and 212 from Crete, Lesvos and Chios. In total, Greeks from thirteen separate locations were examined, thus giving the most complete picture of variation so far. A single haplogroup A chromosome was found (in Lesvos) which is usually found in Africa. The remainder belonged to haplogroups found in Caucasoid populations. The breakup (in percent) of the haplogroups observed) based on the set of markers typed is as follows.”
I suggest you study genetics since you didn’t know the basic simple scientific studies that have been conducted and with the DNA advantages we have nowadays their results are pretty accurate.
“Highly polymorphic DNA loci were tested in Greek population samples residing in geographic areas of Greece, populations of Greeks from Asia Minor/N. Africa living in eastern and central Macedonia (Figure 1) and compared to skeleton remains from ancient Greek burial grounds from antiquity. These population groups were chosen to provide material that is relevant to the cultural, historical, and genetic questions regrading Greek migrations through out the centuries. Eastern Macedonia is a region north of the Aegean where Neolithic settlements appeared. In central Macedonia there are many excavation sites, such as Dion, Aiges, Pella, Edessa, and Sindos, and the oldest Neolithic settlement was found in Nicomedia, between the Aliakmonas and Axios rivers, which were important for the transmission of farming to Europe from the Axios valley. In Thessaly the fertile plains are of central importance for the first farmers of Europe, where the Neolithic (5000-4000 B.C.) settlement of Sesklo was found. In the mountain region of Epirus there are possible preNeolithic elements. Finally, the Greeks from Asia Minor & N. Africa were chosen because of the Greek presence that was in those regions and the Fertile Crescent of the Near East prior 1922 due to Greek migration from the Greek mainland since antiquity. No statistically significant heterogeneity (p > 0.30) was observed in the gene frequencies between the pooled Greek data and other European populations(Schnee-Griese et al. 1993; Buscemi et al. 1994; Klintschar and Kubat 1995; Martin et al. 1995; Pestoni et al. 1996; Rose et al. 1996; PerezLezaun et al. 1997). At the DI S80 and DI 7S5 loci the allele frequencies were not significantly different between our pooled data and data from other studies on the Greek population (p = 0.48 and p = 0.61, respectively) (Hatzaki et al. 1995). These results support the notion of Alonso et al. (1995) that the allele frequencies of microsatellite loci are well preserved in Europeans. In conclusion, this survey provides the allele frequencies for the construction of a Greek genetic database, indicates that any peculiarities of some markers that may be able to discriminate between population samples from Greece, points toward the similarity of the Greek population sample to other European populations, and interpret the genetic data in light of the known history of the studied populations. No significant differences with other European populations were found for the loci studied.” -Genetic studies in Greek population samples using 12 highly polymorphic DNA loci: Human Biology, Wayne State University Press Feb 1999
“The focus on this site is the achievement of Black Africans. We do not recognize your ignorant definition of “true African†or true blacks or true negroes.”
Sorry to break it to you but ancient Greeks were not “Black Africans” and Africa is a huge continent with many different peoples and cultures that passed through to claim them all “black” is very misleading.
the genetics studies are what hitler based his”final solution” on,performed by his leading & respected scientists /geneticists.please,please do not take us there
These genetic studies have nothing to do with Hitler. The geneticists and anthropologists who conducted these studies such as Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza are well respected within the science world. Not one of them ever claim that humans did not originate from Africa but trying to make every single human on the planet through out human history and into today as if they are/were ALL “black African” is ridiculously naive and goes against the evolution ideology that is at the heart of the “out of Africa” theory. These scientists are respected world wide by various races of people and due to the scientific method of the research work they can be tested and retested to prove validity by scientists who can back up the data or contradict it with their independent of each other findings. By the way, it is such genetists as Cavalli who’s research work proved Hitler’s propaganda work about his “Aryan Nation” myth to be nothing but racist and untrue but at the same time their scientific work also proves how propaganda certain Afrocentric believes have become. So if people are going to believe them about their work that show’s Hitler’s racists Eurocentric attitudes towards genetics then I find it pretty hypocritical that they WON’T believe these same scientists who’s research work also contradict these Afrocentric views. People need to really stop believing that ones ‘race’ is skin deep, to learn about human evolution and population movements through out human history one needs to read upon the latest scientific information on genetics and anthropological. So that excuse of trying to compare Hitler’s propaganda with what these genetists have done, does not compared and can not be applied with them. The physical “stereotypes” of race, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza wrote in The History and Geography of Human Genes, “reflect superficial differences.”
Andrea cites this excerpt:
“No significant differences with other European populations were found for the loci studied.†-Genetic studies in Greek population samples using 12 highly polymorphic DNA loci: Human Biology, Wayne State University Press Feb 1999”
Jahdey Responds:
Another sign of low-rank misconception. Andrea quoted extensively from an excerpt that had no relevance to the questions he was asked. The query was: provide us with just one genetic study which dissociates the ancient greeks from Africa. He provided a quote he barely understood its significance…an excerpt that focussed on a 1999 study that indicated a Europe wide relationship based on some loci in the DNA strand.
I asked for referenced sources respecting Andrea’s claim that ancient Greeks were different from Africans based on craniofacial metrics. Andrea could not do so. What a shame for a vituperating Racialist.
Andrea’s shamefaced silence and strawman’s manouver do not address the question asked. I will provide the answer Andrea could not.
Primarily, HLA genes allele distribution has been studied in Mediterranean and sub-Saharan populations. The studies demonstrate that Greeks share an important part of their genetic pool with sub-Saharan Africans (Ethiopians and west Africans) also supported by Chr 7 Markers.
The Greeks have a very high prevalence of the E haplogroup, especially for the E3B and E3A which are specific to Black Africa. E3B is East African, whereas E3A is West African. See http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/original-west-african-greeks-how-blacks-buit-greece/;
Clade E3b1 lineages, is frequent in the Greeks. See, European Journal of Human Genetics (2007) 15, 121–126. See also http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=005240.
According to Cruciani: “The human Y-chromosome haplogroup E is characterized by the mutations SRY4064, M96, and P29, on a background defined by the insertion of an Alu element (YAP+) (Y Chromosome Consortium 2002; Jobling and Tyler-Smith 2003). Two of the three branches of haplogroup E, the major clades E1 and E2, have been observed almost exclusively on the African continent, where their distribution has been analyzed in detail (Underhill et al. 2000; Cruciani et al. 2002). The third branch, the clade E3, defined by the mutation P2, is the only one that has also been observed in Europe and in western Asia, where it has generally been found at frequencies <25% (Hammer et al. 2000, 2001; Semino et al. 2000; Scozzari et al. 2001; CinnioÄŸlu et al. 2004).
On the basis of the previously published phylogeny (Y Chromosome Consortium 2002; Jobling and Tyler-Smith 2003), the mutations M2/P1/M180, on the one hand, and M35/M215, on the other, further subdivide E3 in two monophyletic haplogroups: E3a and E3b. Both haplogroups are frequent in Africa (Underhill et al. 2000; Cruciani et al. 2002), although, to date, only E3b has also been observed in Europe (Semino et al. 2000) and western Asia (Underhill et al. 2000; CinnioÄŸlu et al. 2004). Recently, it has been proposed that E3b originated in sub-Saharan Africa and expanded into the Near East and northern Africa at the end of the Pleistocene (Underhill et al. 2001)."
A study by by Di Giacomo et al. found the following African haplogroups in Greeks: Haplogroup A which is highly specific to West Africa, R1a, DE, and J2*(xDYS413= 18)J*(xJ2). R1* which probably gave rise to R1a is found in Northern Cameroon. DE is found principally among Nigerians and it is suspected that it originated from Nigeria. J is very prominent in East, and North Africa.
A newer study by Semino et al. examined two samples of Greeks of size 84 and 59 (Macedonian Greeks). The focus was on two specific haplogroups E and J which arose in Africa and which are frequent in the Mediterranean region and can be used to detect population movements between Europe, Africa and the Near East. 2.4% of Greeks belong in haplogroup E-M123 and 21.4% in E-M78.
Most Greeks (22.8% Greeks/14.3% Macedonian Greeks) belong to J-M172 and its subclades which is associated with Neolithic population movements. Only 1.8%/2.2% of Macedonian Greeks/Greeks belonged to haplogroup J-M267 which could potentially (althought not certainly) reflect more recent Near Eastern admixture. Haplogroup J is a signature for Black East Africa and its satellites cultures such as Yemen, Southern Arabia and India where Black Africans have been prominent since ancient times.
Greeks also have the Benin Sickle Cell Haplogroup. Benin Sickle Cell haplogroup originated in Nigeria west Africa, Black Africans. See Three cases of sickle cell anemia in Greek children Minerva Pediatr. 1954 Jul 31;6(14):563-7. See also: S. Dourakis, A. Alexopoulou, C. Papageorgiou, A. Kaloterakis, S. Hadziyannis, Acute chest syndrome in sickle-cell traitTwo case reports in persons of Mediterranean origin and review of the literature. European Journal of Internal Medicine, Volume 15, Issue 4, Pages 248-250
The Benin haplotype accounts for HbS associated chromosomes in Sicily,4 Northern Greece,10 Southern Turkey,11 and South West Saudi Arabia,6,7 suggesting that these genes had their origin in West Africa. Graham R. Serjeant, THE GEOGRAPHY OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE: OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERSTANDING ITS DIVERSITY, http://www.kfshrc.edu.sa/annals/143/rev9239.html
So Andrea, this just goes to demonstrate to you that from a genetic science view point, tropical Africans and ancient Greeks were inter-related peoples as was rightly cited by the Kebra Negasta one of the oldest and most authoritative books of the Ethiopians.
It might be more interesting to you to know that, whilst Greeks were busy interacting with their Kiths and Kins of Africa, they despised with a vehemence all the “barbarians of Northern Europe including the Germanic Goremen, the Vandals, the Tuetons etc. It remains one of the lasting ironies of our modern age, that the descendants of those barbarians today claim the legacies of ancient Greeks as if that were the case ever in the ancient time.
I trust that a more balanced reading of history, and a more introspective approach would teach you about the hidden aspects of western history and its tendency to misappropriate what never belonged to it.
Peace
Jahdey
And see the references below. Search them out and read them so that you can comprehend better the quote you just cited that: “The physical “stereotypes†of race,reflect superficial differences.†Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza in The History and Geography of Human Genes. Because if every one came out of Africa, then there is only one race which is the black race. All other colours are different shades of Black Africans!!! http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/the-black-african-race-is-the-only-race-the-rest-are-just-different-shades-of-black/
See
Di Giacomo et al. (2003) Clinal Patterns of human Y chromosomal diversity in continental Italy and Greece are dominated by drift and founder effects. Mol Phyl Evol 28:387-395
Semino et al. (2004) Origin, Diffusion, and Differentiation of Y-Chromosome Haplogroups E and J: Inferences on the Neolithization of Europe and Later Migratory Events in the Mediterranean Area. Am J Hum Genet
Cruciani et al. (2004) Phylogeographic Analysis of Haplogroup E3b (E-M215) Y Chromosomes Reveals Multiple Migratory Events Within and Out Of Africa. Am J Hum Genet
Al-Zahery et al. (2003) Y-chromosome and mtDNA polymorphisms in Iraq, a crossroad of the early human dispersal and of post-Neolithic migrations. Mol Phyl Evol 28:458-472
Ragusa A, Lombardo M, Sortino G, et al. ßs gene in Sicily is in linkage disequilibrium with the Benin haplotype: implications for gene flow. Am J Hematol 1988;27:139-41.
Ojwang PJ, Ogada T, Beris P, et al. Haplotypes and a globin gene analysis in sickle cell anaemia patients from Kenya. Br J Haematol 1987;65:211-5.
El-Hazmi MAF. Beta globin gene haplotypes in the Saudi sickle cell anemia patients. Human Heredity 1990;40:177-86.
Padmos MA, Roberts GT, Sackey K, et al. Two different forms of homozygous sickle cell disease occur in Saudi Arabia. Br J Haematology 1991;79:93-8.
Kulozik AE, Wainscoat JS, Serjeant GR, et al. Geographical survey of bs-globin gene haplotypes: evidence for an independent Asian origin of the sickle cell mutation. Am J Hum Genet 1986;39:239-44.
Zago MA, Figueiredo MS, Ogo SH. Bantu bs cluster haplotype predominates among Brazilian Blacks. Am J Phys Anthropol 1992;88:295-8.
Boussiou M, Loukopoulos D, Christakis J, Fessas Ph. The origin of the sickle cell mutation in Greece: evidence from bs globin gene cluster polymorphisms. Hemoglobins 1991;15:459-67.
Aluoch JR, Kilinç Y, Aksoy M, et al. Sickle cell anaemia among Eti-Turks: haematological, clinical and genetic observations. Br J Haematol 1986;64:45-55.
Jahdey, do you read what you copy and pasted? You just posted the same research work that I did which points to what I stated before; that Africans and Greeks both modern and ancient, were NOT inter-related peoples since pre-historical times at least not in the sense that you are claiming them to be. HgE3a is by far the most frequent Y-chromosomal lineage in Africa, existing at 48% in a continent-wide sample of 1122 chromosomes, the HgE3a has not been found in ancient nor modern Greeks. Let me break it down for you:
“The Greeks have a very high prevalence of the E haplogroup, especially for the E3B and E3A which are specific to Black Africa. E3B is East African, whereas E3A is West African. See http://www.africaresource.com/…..t-greece/;
Clade E3b1 lineages, is frequent in the Greeks. See, European Journal of Human Genetics (2007) 15, 121–126. See also http://www.egyptsearch.com/for…..;t=005240.”
Wrong, for one you are misquoting what is being said in the European Journal of Human Genetics. For one the journal does not claim that Clade E3b1found in Greeks show a lineages to Black Africans. This haplogroup is found in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. In Africa it is by far the most common haplogroup and is believed to have originated there some 50,000 years before present. Outside of Africa, Haplogroup E is found at moderate to low frequencies and largely belonging to the E3b subgroup. Haplogroup E3b is believed to represent ancient genetic influence from East Africa, mediated by West Asian populations entering Europe during the Neolithic revolution (the spread of agriculture from Asia Minor). Here is a example for you: Egyptians tend toward the sub-Saharan cluster because they have both levels of E3A A and B, however, they also have a substantial E3B and J aligns them with Caucasoids two haplogroups (E3B and J) that is common among non-African people of which the Greeks, Italians, Spaniards and other Europeans fall under. Greeks, Italians, Spaniards and other Europeans groups have no sub-Saharan lineages, which is why these groups cluster entirely on the European/Caucasoid side of the plot. Haplogroup E3a is an Africa lineage. It is currently hypothesized that this haplogroup dispersed south from northern Africa within the last 3,000 years, by the Bantu agricultural expansion. E3a is also the most common lineage among African Americans. Test reveal that ancient and modern Greeks did not nor have they E3A lineage. Haplogroup E3b evolved in the Middle East and expanded into the Mediterranean and Europe during the Pleistocene Neolithic expansion. The E3B is found in many Europeans and it is a specific mutation of the E haplogroup theorized from some 8000 years ago. Meaning, it’s more then likely a Neolithic MUTATION, and as with other Neolithic haplogroups came to Europe through the Middle East. Greeks do not have non-European haplogroups such as N3 and E3a which are prevalent in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, respectively.
“According to Cruciani: “The human Y-chromosome haplogroup E is characterized by the mutations SRY4064, M96, and P29, on a background defined by the insertion of an Alu element (YAP+) (Y Chromosome Consortium 2002; Jobling and Tyler-Smith 2003). Two of the three branches of haplogroup E, the major clades E1 and E2, have been observed almost exclusively on the African continent, where their distribution has been analyzed in detail (Underhill et al. 2000; Cruciani et al. 2002). The third branch, the clade E3, defined by the mutation P2, is the only one that has also been observed in Europe and in western Asia, where it has generally been found at frequencies