# A small number of incomers brought the economy, and their ancestry is too diluted to detect in the sampled…

> Still possible: A small number of incomers brought the economy, and their ancestry is too diluted to detect in the sampled genomes.

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# A small number of incomers brought the economy, and their ancestry is too diluted to detect in the sampled…

A small number of incomers brought the economy, and their ancestry is too diluted to detect in the sampled genomes.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionDeduced0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: one piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- A larger sample, or upper-layer individuals, shows low-level migrant ancestry.

## What would rule it out

- Larger samples across all layers with no migrant ancestry above detection limits.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[Only 13 founders were sequenced; qpAdm has limited power to detect low-level admixture.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/tarim-mummies/evidence/EVD0D90E8P26WXY/only-13-founders-were-sequenced-qpadm-has-limited-power-to)

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## The questions it answers

[How did a genetically isolated people come to herd cattle and sheep, make cheese, weave wool and grow wheat and millet?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/tarim-mummies/questions/QST0D90E3A63KN5/how-did-a-genetically-isolated-people-come-to-herd-cattle)

Most likelyNeighbouring groups passed on the practices and the animals and crops through trade and contact, with little…

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Mysteries Department. (2026). A small number of incomers brought the economy, and their ancestry is too diluted to detect in the sampled… [Answer ANS0D90E8E82P3Y]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D90E8E82P3Y
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