Recent content by Bill7

Very interesting, if you have any spare time could you run greek populations using your 3 way model ?

I think 50% replacement is to much.If Northern Greeks have been 50% replaced by slavs then there is 70% population replacement in Bulgarians and about 50% in Albanians

If is it easy can you send the link of the study?? I remember they used the empuries samples to calculate the native admixture

Anyone who is familiar with Byzantine history knows that after the Romans recaptured Greece they pretty much killed or expelled all the slavs they found with maybe few surviving pockets remaining here and there. The same can be told for Albania especially the North where the slavs couldn't...

I have to agree with the other users here the authors seem to have done a poor job modelling modern balkan people.Why would they ever use ancient Greeks as a proxy to calculate the pre slavic component in modern South slavs??? Why aren't they at the very least using the Iron age Bulgarian...

So how much slavic ancestry do you believe Greeks and Albanians have if we assume that modern South slavs have on average 40-55% ancestry associated with slavs?

I also don't give much trust to these calculators. I think in this case the best way to see if northeastern Italians have slavic genes is to see if they carry haplogroups associated with slavs

from what I have seen north Eastern Italians do score some slavic in calculators but no more than 10-15%. In the rest of Italy is pretty much non existent

Sometimes ydna isn't totally accurate for example Armenians have 20% r1b but autosomally they have only 5% steppe

If Albos are half slavic half thraco-illyrian hybrid as you claim then South Slavs are on average 80% slavic which is definitely not the case.

Guys relax we can't be sure about anything yet because we barely have any ancient Greek genomes and the ones we had were heterogeneous from being extremely south European like clustering with sicillians to some helladic samples being thessalian Albanian tuscan like we haven't seen the full...

I agree with you that we should have more ancient dna from Greece but if a paper came out and supported the idea of continuity between modern and ancients you would be the first one to disregard the scientific research as unreliable and biased.

it's difficult for me to imagine that there was not any EV-13 in ancient Greece. There were several cases even of Athenian upper class citizens marrying Thracians or having Thracians origin for example (Thucidides paternally descended from Thracians. His father's name was Oloros which was a...

he supports the idea that the majority of EV 13 found in Greeks is of balkan and especially Albanian/illyrian origins