What is the likely ethnic origin of the Minoans?

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An analysis of DNA evidence, published in Nature back in 2013, suggested that the Minoans were a local European civilisation. A few reports since have refined the details, but the main conclusion still seems to be accepted.

The very latest published research that I've found (in the latest issue of Nature, dated today - 10 August 2017) shows that the Minoans and Mycenaeans were genetically very similar, having at least three-quarters of their ancestry from the earliest Neolithic farmers of western Anatolia and the Aegean.

The main difference between the Mycenaeans and the Minoans seems to be that the Mycenaeans

"derived additional ancestry from a more distant source related to the hunter–gatherers of eastern Europe and Siberia".

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