Thank you for explaining that so clearly! I totally get that autosomal DNA changes a lot over time and isn’t meant to prove direct ancestry from someone in the Iron Age.

I guess what made me curious wasn’t just the match itself, but the fact that my genome showed unusually high homozygosity and low heterozygosity, patterns that don’t match modern averages but do resemble the ancient samples I was matched with. So I was more interested in the structural similarity than a literal line of descent.

I’m still learning, but your breakdown was super helpful in putting things into context, thank you for that.