Recent content by Dianatomia

Just the logistics of moving an army from Greece to North Africa and then to India is astounding. Let alone conquering everyone in the process. Among others the Global power at the time. And doing it before reaching the age of 33. Quite remarkable. Also, one should not compare later armies to...

Just note, the Logkas sample was found inland. A mountainous area isolated from the Sea. This might be a factor since Cycladic and Cretan sea fairing civilisations had a very long time to put their genetic mark on all coastal areas of the Aegean. As such, Paeonian and Logkas could be a good...

While one can detect the admixture of Greeks over time, it should be noted that some Ancient Greeks are closer to some modern Greeks, than to other Ancient Greeks. This is especially true for Greeks in the Hellenist Era and in the Classical era. On that note, pretty sure if we had Classical...

I think this research shows that the Greeks from the LBA and Iron Age started to deviate from Lazarides’ Mycenaean Greeks. Mainland South Greeks seem to be the closest to the Classical Greeks and mainland North Greeks (Epirus, Thessaly, Macedonia) seem to be the closest to Classical and...

It seems to me that all ancient Balkanian populations (central and south) were genetically identical, with only a variation of shades going South to North. To put it differently, there is more variety between North and South Illyrians, than between Mycenaeans and Ancient Paeonians. Or rather...

Thracians were close to Mycenaeans, and so were West Anatolians. But they were not identical and formed their own clusters. There has been a cluster shift in West Anatolia after the Greek settlement.

Quite true, but I would argue that the East Greeks ultimately formed their own cluster. After all, the areas were heavily settled by continental Greeks. But there were indigenous inhabitants there as well. And they were not necessarily similar to the indigenous inhabitants of continental Greeks...

One study (Balanovsky et al., 2011, on Greeks of the Caucasus and Black Sea) reported EV13 in Pontian Greeks at about 10–12%.Some smaller samples from Pontian Greeks in Greece (descendants of refugees after the 1923 population exchange) show similar levels, around 10–15%. Some islanders have...

Albanians settled or in part pushed into areas populated by North Greeks. They definitely have Ancient Greek admixture and/or admixture that could have become Ancient Greek due to Hellenization, a process which other genetically identical people in Northern Greece have undergone during the...

All we can say with certainty is that the native populations have dominated in the Aegean regions. Estimating Albanian and Vlach ancestry can be tricky, because they also absorbed a lot of native populations. I.e. Arvanites hail from a region which during the Bronze Age and Iron Age fell under...

If supposedly there were migrations into Greece after the LBA, it does not mean that during the 8th and 7th centuries BC, these new elements have already been absorbed. It would be expected that Mycenaean-like Greeks still existed by that time, while other types had not been absorbed as yet. By...

Given that E-V13 arose in Europe, I am cautious about a significant North (East) African influx in the Balkans in the 1-3 century A.D. But after a closer look, this paper does not claim that. They just want to emphasise that there was mobility because they found some evidence of East African...

Quite likely. The Hellenistic and Roman Era was a time when some ancient cultures probably had gone extinct. And so did some religious practices. I have my doubts of a large influx from North Africa. As this would have probably been accompanied by other haplogroups other than E-V13. Especially...

Well, it’s a port of a big city which during that time had an empire. Which is essentially like an airport. Hence I would suggest one will also find outliers. North Europeans, East Europeans, perhaps even (North) Africans. Haplogroups which you may not find anymore today. Curious to see how...

No settlement in the Bronze Age was huge in absolute terms. The territory of Northern Greece is vast in EBA terms and mostly rather empty in modern terms. People could have simply settled there. A vast migration is only relative. Sure, there were some raids and displacements. But larger native...