Which ancestral component is E1b1b associated with in Eurasia?

[thejkhan]

Is it BE they carried while entering the Levant? Or Ancestral North African? Some other deep ancestry?

[Farroukh]

Only autosomal results of pre-Natufian E-M35 aDNA samples can reveal this. We need samples older than 10 kyo to compare with.

[Lupriac]

Only autosomal results of pre-Natufian E-M35 aDNA samples can reveal this. We need samples older than 10 kyo to compare with.

Kebaran DNA would be awesome to have. They would likely be predominantly E-Z830.

[Max_H]

Is it BE they carried while entering the Levant? Or Ancestral North African? Some other deep ancestry?

Its likely either ANA or BE in origin, depending by which model you go. I am not aware of any other good scenarios given current data.

[Scythoslav]

Iberomaurusian would be closer genetically to this component than natufians as they precede the natufian culture and are the oldest known carriers of E-M78 to my knowledge. Natufian E wasn’t even E-M78 and they were mixed with local Levantine hunter gatherers who were CT Y-DNA.