{"id":198289,"date":"2021-07-14T11:27:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/?p=198289"},"modified":"2021-07-14T11:30:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:30:40","slug":"the-non-european-admixture-in-afrikaners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/2021\/07\/14\/the-non-european-admixture-in-afrikaners\/","title":{"rendered":"The non-European admixture in Afrikaners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAbout seven years ago I got my hands on some white South African individuals from the Family Tree DNA database. It was immediately clear that a subset of them had clear and consistent non-European ancestry.<\/b> More precisely, this ancestry was a mix of African and Asian. In contrast, some of the other white South Africans were Ashkenazi Jews, and others seemed to be English with no African ancestry.<\/p>\n

Last year the paper, Patterns of African and Asian admixture in the Afrikaner population of South Africa<\/a>, investigated the issue thoroughly. The authors investigated 77 Afrikaners on high density chips, and they found ubiquitous ancestry from non-European population groups:<\/p>\n

1) Likely Khoi ancestry related to the \u01c2Khomani
\n2) Sub-Saharan African ancestry, but closer West Africans and even East Africans than neighboring Bantu
\n3) Indian ancestry
\n4) East Asian ancestry<\/p>\n

The East Asian ancestry is almost certainly from what is today Indonesia. The ubiquity of Indian slaves in the 17th century should make #3 unsurprising. And the Khoi people were indigenous to the Cape when the Dutch arrived.<\/p>\n

The second component is harder to parse. But, it seems that the arrival of a few external slave ships was critical. The non-European admixture into the Afrikaners dates to the earliest period of settlement, not to later centuries when there was much more ubiquitous contact with Bantu-speaking populations. By then the whites were endogamous. Or, the mixed offspring were being assimilated into the Coloured community, rather than into the whites.<\/p>\n

Curiously, the European ancestry of the Afrikaners was not subject to a strong bottleneck. Perhaps this is due to the heterogeneity of its source? Dutch, French Huguenots, and Germans, all played a role.*<\/p>\n

* Not an apples-to-apples comparison<\/a>, but it is clear that self-identified non-Hispanic whites of European heritage have a much lower proportion of non-European ancestry than Afrikaners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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