Nice deep dive Sage. I have been reading so many papers and writing so many post I forgot about this paper. Maybe we can pinpoint which RV88.
MtDNA L is important but the mtDNA H major clade is more significant
The authors' genetic data source may or may not be helpful.
As you state in an other post, the field is treacherous.
Full of landmines, sinkholes, quicksand, and other unsure ground.
None of the authors is a geneticist.
The 3 person team's leader has a her PhD in Business, yes business.
We're approaching the Logical Fallacy of Appeal to non-credentialed Authority.
The Comp Sci team member is an undergrad by all appearances.
The article is just an historical essay birthday cake with just a few sprinkles of DNA.
It lacks a materials and methods section. How scientific is it? Which science?
All these years. Where are the independent minded black amateurs?
Shooo... where the professionals independent mineded or not?
Indeed, like in previous eras' disciplines, black truths and facts in this field MUST come from Afr descent scholars and investigators.
Maybe time has come for me to invest in a genomics devoted computer{s} and storage.
I balk because though it'd satisfy my curiosity there's virtually no blx to discuss the findings with.
Every once in a while we get a D'Atanasio or other one shot fib busters like Moorjani and Price who didn't hde conceal cover over or blunt but in fact revealed even W Afr genomics in the founders of biblical Israel while the field ragged on about NO African blacks in the Maghreb&Tropical N Afr, the Lower Nile Valley, or the Levant until Roman Egypt and Islamic era Afr.
We seen some who started out seemingly unbiased dive into the Yte Union pool, Cerny immediately comes to mind the name of two others escape me at present.
Yes I was surprised to see Bouzouggar, a non-geneticist and fellow Amazigh dash Kefi on the rocks re Afr blk genomed Maurusians. As posted elsewhere much friction exists between wannabe white Amazigh, nationalists in particular, and black Imazighen in day to day life.
Like the rest of yte society, genomicists equivalate us to slavery and every day in every way hammer 'you were our slaves very recently' beatings over our heads.
Yet no leisure class blx are aquiring or funding black scholars into the genomics fields. They prefer cars, rambling mansions, hyper expensive brand name everything and even cry if a store don't want cash/plastic tendered by a blk hand.
but i'm rambling
Anyway I disagree H is more significant than L in the case of the Lumbee.
That may be appropriate for your purposes but in general L is of utmost significance.
Please expand on why H is more significant than L.
Problem w/L is they're very hard to localize.
For the Lumbee situation accual geneticists instead of commentators are lacking from the report under examination.
Too much historical reliance not nearly enough genomics.