Recent content by Kuivamaa

This is not parsimonious at all. Most Slavs were christianized and got assimilated after a couple of centuries. A few isolated tribes persisted well into late eastern Roman Empire times. They weren’t kicked out, their genetic signature is present and some ydna timelines of Greeks (eg Y4460)...

That’s the case with Greeks too, naturally. Separate admixture events. In fact the second wasn’t always an admixture event per se. South Slavs with Greek national identity have been incorporated into the Greek state population around the Balkan wars era too. That could explain why the Roman...

There was no "Mycenaean civilization" before proto-Greek speakers arrived. Greek ethnogenesis begins when the steppe bunch starts to mix with the local aegean people so there was no such thing as "pure Greek". Greeks are the outcome of this merge. Saying "pure greek" settled in epirus and...