i see you have notice Georgiev and Hammond.
Sturtz is also same way,
The Makedonian dialect/language origin is clear enough about The NW Dialects or proto-Greek
And all the Illyrian connectivity was express before the Derveni papyrus Muller Karazoff etc
After Derveni papyrus all admit to a primitive Greek dialect or a paraGreek language (compare Icelandic with Austrian for example)
except Eugene Borza and Tzanoff
Borza said about Derveni papyrus it was language of Makedonian upper class and another language to lower class,
But After Pella katadesmos which is a very low class spell,
and the aspirations-writing of Katadesmos stoped publishing,
The problem is that Makedonian is one of NW Dialects, but has shows an Aeolic and Thraco-Brygian adstrtum.
and that makes it difficult,
As for the road, from 1928 it was expressed the theory of Vucedol-Vatin, straight through the Aquatic (rivers) roads of central balkans to lake Lycnitis (Ohrid)
some call it Doric, some call it Mycenean, Giannopoulos describes it at his book through archaiological way,
But could that lead to long Corridor Mycenean palaces culture? or stops to Central Greece to proto-Greeks.
The last I can not decide or support.
Anyway, the findings the late decades, are driving to conclusions, and 'burn' theories of the past.
many theories are 'burned' yet mentioned,
for example 'Solutrean Hypothesis' is mentioned everywhere, but how is handled yesterday and today?
the Linguistic game!!!,
in history there is a tribe called ΑΘΑΜΑΝΕΣ, Athamanians
some ancient call them Hellenes, some others, call them Barbarian, they might not even be Greeks, a tottaly different, as also they could be so deep core proto-Greek
the things we know about Them are very few, a very closed to her shelf tribe, that allied nobody, except once the Aetolians
if I want to play the game I say Look, AΘΑΜΑΝΕΣ-> ΟΘΟΜΑΝΕΣ = Ottomanes
(
manytimes I also fall to that 'mind trap' as an imbecile I am)
So no matter the Mycenean archaiological sites, (at least in Pieria Makedonia)
especially the quite big considering one, found 2-3 years before,
we see a connection to the other core,
Epirus has less Mycenean, more than 3000 Mycaenean relics found,
but if remember correct only about 14 small sites, (I may be wrong about correct number since archaiology runs fast to make me a liar)
FOR MYCENEAN EPIRUS A GOOD ARTICLE FOR SMALL INTRODUCTION IS THE BELLOW
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2014/10/06/bronze-age-epirus-part-2/
Notice
Note2 is a Mollosian settlement but a continue from a LATE HELLADIC IIIC (Mycenean foundation and relics)
a good example
and a good linguistic exersice
is the word Θετταλος -Θεσσαλος Thessalian
Attic-Ionian Θετταλος (Τhettalos Th as in Theory
Αeolian Φετταλος (Phettalos or Fettalos)
Makedonian Βετταλος (Bettalos or??? Bhettalos(Vettalos))
Notice Βασις and Θεσις words
compare Germanic Du Thou You
I admit I am ignorant, an imbecile.