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A Deeply Stratified Lineage: Interpreting a Multi-Continental Ancestry Across Civilisations

What the Data Actually Shows from my recent 'My Heritage' DNA test.

The ancestry data presented here - derived from MyHeritage’s Ethnicity Estimate and Ancient Origins models - reveals not a narrow or recent admixture profile, but a highly stratified, globally distributed lineage spanning Africa, the Mediterranean, South Asia, East Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.
This is not the genetic signature of a sedentary peasant population. It is the profile of long-range mobility, repeated contact with elite corridors of power, and integration into multiple historical worlds.

Primary Foundation: Sub-Saharan Africa 78%

The dominant foundation of my genome is Sub-Saharan African. This is not incidental-it is structural.

Sub-Saharan Africa is:
1. The deepest reservoir of human genetic diversity

2. The source population for multiple outward migrations

3. Historically connected to North Africa, Arabia, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean world through trade, warfare, scholarship, and governance

A strong African core combined with wide peripheral signals is a pattern commonly associated with imperial, mercantile, or administrative lineages, rather than isolated communities.

Mediterranean and Roman-World Signals in my DNA

The data shows multiple ancestry components consistent with the classical and post-classical Mediterranean world, including:

1. France (AD 130–1400)
2. Iberian (AD 300–1200)
3. Sardinian (AD 770–1000)
4. North African (AD 580–1160)

Taken together, these are not random European fragments. They align precisely with the territorial and administrative reach of the Roman Empire and its successor states.
Sardinia, in particular, is a genetic outlier in Europe - long recognised by population geneticists as a conserved Roman - era elite signal, due to limited later admixture. Its appearance, even at low percentage, is meaningful in context.
North African and Iberian signals further point toward interaction with the western Mediterranean sphere historically associated with Carthage, Roman Africa, and later Afro-Mediterranean polities.
This demonstrates ancestral integration into the elite circulatory system of the ancient Mediterranean, where Africans were not peripheral but central.

Indian Ocean and South Asian Corridor

A significant 10.6% Indian Subcontinent component appears alongside:
1. Andamanese - linked signals
2. Papuan and Australian components
3. East African affinities (Maasai, Ethiopian, Somali clusters in distance tables)

This constellation is a textbook signature of the Indian Ocean world system, a pre-modern network linking East Africa, Arabia, India, Southeast Asia, and beyond.
This network was not populated by farmers drifting aimlessly. It was sustained by:
Naval elites
Merchant-administrators
Scholars-clerics & Military specialists

The data indicates repeated integration, not a single event.

East Asian and Japanese Signal

The Japanese (AD 540–1850) component, though numerically small, is temporally broad and historically specific. In population genetics, such signals are often associated with:
Elite absorption
Court or military service
Long-range diplomatic or martial exchange
When viewed alongside the Indian Ocean and African core, this is consistent with Afro-Asian connectivity, not modern migration.

This, along with other research I have carried out, supports ancestral contact with Japan’s historical ruling strata, not casual or modern admixture.

Trans - Pacific and Ancient American Signal

The presence of South Amerindian (9000 BC–AD 1500) ancestry adds another layer.

This is rare, but not unprecedented, in globally mobile lineages. It suggests either:
Very ancient shared ancestry prior to continental separation signals becoming distinct, or
Later trans-oceanic genetic echoes preserved at low frequency
Either way, it reinforces the same pattern: depth, not isolation.

What My Lineage Represents

My ancestry profile does not tell a story of one empire or one title. It tells a larger story:

An African foundational lineage
Integrated into Mediterranean imperial systems

Connected to North African and Iberian power zones

Participating in the Indian Ocean elite network

Extending into East Asia and the Pacific

This in my submission is a profile of civilisational intermediaries - people who move between worlds, not remain confined to one.

Diversity as Evidence, Not Decoration

The diversity visible here in my DNA results are not cosmetic. It is structured, historically aligned, and internally coherent.
Claims of Roman - world, North African, and broader elite connectivity are plausible and supported at the population level, even if science rightly stops short of naming individual ancestors.
What my DNA data shows clearly, is that my lineage:
Is ancient
Is African - rooted
Is globally entangled
And cannot be explained by modern, localised ancestry alone
This, in itself, is a powerful and defensible conclusion that will enable us to globally procure and lock down, zones of interest to IoBN.