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Irreverent. aDNA guy. GeoPol commentator. Corded Ware respecter. Horseshoe theory enjoyer. Assad Curse believer. Kosovo is Serbia. Liwa Iskenderun is Syria.

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West be like-

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@manonthemoon43 @DrRob82 @FortressLugh In terms of IA cultural influence— possible.

I’d also expect some East Balkan outliers in a Roman setting there, just like those several so far from Dalmatia. Not sure if they’d be indicative of lasting colonies/settlements vs just melting into the “Roman mix” though.

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@manonthemoon43 @DrRob82 @FortressLugh In terms of moderns, overall steppe-wise/PCA, sounds right. But that’s with Balto-Slavic ancestry(vs just Yamna).

If the Carpi theory is in play, question is how much Balto-Slav shift is from primary Arbanitic migrants vs secondary Slav admixture in core tribes.

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@manonthemoon43 @DrRob82 @FortressLugh I *think it’s that one. It might have an alternative name in relation to its pottery shape or maybe getting mixed up with Channeled Ware

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@manonthemoon43 @DrRob82 @FortressLugh So, it’d be nice to see full gammut of Dac-Thr Y distribution.

The exclusively E-v13 sample set is too far east in Bgr, and I suspect a heavy founder there.

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@manonthemoon43 @DrRob82 @FortressLugh It may have been a line that spread down the Morava from Pann in the LBA/EIA and initially tied to “Illyrian-tier” autosomal pops. Exerted influence on Daco-Thr.

Rather than coming from West>East per se.

I forget the exact horizon name, but has been discussed on forums

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@manonthemoon43 @DrRob82 @FortressLugh Yeah & “paleo-Balkan” autosomal profiles weren’t eternally constrained to the geographic Balkans as people think.

e.g. That presumed Dacian from 🇷🇴 was a just a TAD steppe-shifted from Thracoid profiles.

Wielbark promoted even further spread north: proto-Slavs got it.

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@manonthemoon43 @DrRob82 @FortressLugh I think a lot of Russians/Ukros are mislabeled as North Cauc ethnos based on their residence lol

But if it is actual Adyghe by chance, Thraco-Cimmerian horizon and Sarmatian era mobility can explain

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@manonthemoon43 @DrRob82 @FortressLugh Wow, this presumed Slav you’re showing is basically the immediate sister clade to the “main” Y20899. See one Pole under it

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@manonthemoon43 @DrRob82 @FortressLugh Re/Slav autosomal bit— interesting.

Y27522 is the other major lineage(Y86181 more specific subclade), and that one seems shared to a greater extent with Slavs per Yfull’s sampling.

We also find more aDNA(pre Akbari) in late and post-antiquity East Europe north of the Danube.

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@manonthemoon43 @DrRob82 @FortressLugh Really? There are others?

I just know of SZKB942 from another 🇭🇺 paper released last month. His autosomal is unknown tho(only Y 🧬 is of solid quality)

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@Chigeorge72 @OlsiJ I’m just unaware of any major Sarakatsan-esque populations up there(analogous to said Vlachs, but Hellenized).

But there’d still be layers of Hellenization in the area: some old timers, some fairly recent.

And no surprise about Avlona *city* being Greek-speaking ofc

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@Chigeorge72 @OlsiJ Well, asking “who” presupposes a tangible tribal Hellenizer.

Sometimes it’s a question of “what”: proximity to core Byz & participation in its urban/trade network. Prestige.

But the Hellenized needn’t always be urban. Just like (Latinized) Pre-Vlachs weren’t Italian settlers

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@DrRob82 @FortressLugh But a single tribe—Hoti—does have reps in antiquity south of the Danube. Roman Morava as I recall.

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@DrRob82 @FortressLugh I’m saying the Albanian*-specific J2b clades (near exclusive long row of 🇦🇱 + 🇲🇪 flags on Yfull) aren’t found in Cetina nor in Roman Illyricum or Moesia even. They’re cousin clades.

But we do see them in Late Antiquity Carp/Pannonia area.

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@DrRob82 @FortressLugh Not only that, but J2b clades are NOT created equal.

The 2 known Albanian-specific meso-clades of J2b are absent south-west of the Danube in antiquity, but do show up in Carpatho-Pannonia (aDNA).

Only Hoti tribe’s J2b can claim Illyrian fathers 😆

Someone call Sorin Paliga.

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Alt-history is cute, but it looks REALLY bad to smear “bullshit” labels on CORE Frankish lands 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇸🇲 that served as a lifeline for Cilicia then & pioneered Genocide recognition.

But sadly, EU will favor off-white-dilemma opportunism over the dignity of its own natives.

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@SubstnceInStyle Armenian highland is Europe. Europe began with Armenia, Greece and Rome. Not with Sweden or EU. The rest is just bullshit.

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@_M_Mountain_ EU isn’t the best place to live.

But it then stands to reason that Assyrians in Sweden and Armos in Glendale have zero say about their West Asian regions of origin.

I appreciate your unique perspective!

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@_M_Mountain_ There are millions of European Turks.

There are precisely zero European Armenians.

Doesn’t mean Turkey should be considered Europe.

Take it as you wish.

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@OltiAlbIllyrian By your logic, Bosniaks are Serbs. And a good part of the Croats too.

Proto-Bosniaks like Sokollu Pasha even protected Serb church institutions.

Identity=/=ancestral cluster.

Pretty sure Arvanites sliced through TourkoArnavuts.

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Arvanites were Arbanitic, but certainly not of the Shiptar ethnos that, collectively, was an Ottoman enabler.

At the very best, it’s like calling Bosniaks Serbs or vice versa.

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You know what the favorite pasttime of these Arvanites was?
Slaughtering Albanians of the Turkish army.