>>2613231Nigga those papers do not say it has a European origin.
R1b-V88 does have some carriers in Sardinia but it has a near-eastern origin, paper says:
"The phylogeographic structure of haplogroup R-V88 suggests a West Eurasian origin followed by a southward dispersal into Africa during the early Holocene, likely facilitated by the Green Sahara."
π D'Atanasio et al., 2018, European Journal of Human Genetics
Regardless, these people who carried V88 were entirely dissimilar to modern Europeans as they carried absolutely no steppe component, genetically speaking they are closer clustered with paleo-european populations which are closer to say, modern levant than modern britain. Nevertheless distant from both