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In North Italy, also in Slovenia, main carnival event is house-to-house visits, you can check the video below. Regularly there is also community gathering – in bigger cities now usually the main event of custom. It really seems a perfect opportunity for virus spread...

A. afarensis still had ape-like brain structure, but longer postnatal brain development, which could be crucial for evolution of humanlike behavior. Blog: https://www.science20.com/news_staff/what_brain_images_of_the_threemillionyear_old_lucy_species_just_revealed-246864 Article...

https://phys.org/news/2020-02-archaeologists-lost-city-conquered-kingdom.html This could be great future arch. site, revealing new views on West Anatolian bronze age and iron age, particularly Luwian culture. Maybe also some indirect insights into the Hittite world, if they will find deeper...

Varna ANI163 is cca. 4.5k BC old and match so closely to modern Central Europeans (and others also). It's fascinating but inevitable a coincidence. Giving more options, my Central Europen dna is enriched with mixed additions, like Goths, Getae, Scyths. Varna outlier is, on the other hand...

Kuzmosi, you are not getting really close ancestors with this source and calculator, I presume Dodecad-K12b. You can try others, maybe Eurogenes K13. Varna_outlier is high in steppe ancestry but low in Balkan heritage (that is why it is marked as an outlier). It's a very old specimen...

Maybe you can get basics from this video: https://youtu.be/OvSnoP1E0JU He is showing on Eurogenes calculator, but the logic is the same with all other calculators.

All SZ samples are not homogenous. If I remember correctly, you have Northern and Southern cluster with some samples in-between. Szolad is a match for me also, and I presume other Slavs. First ten: Distance to: me 4.21754668 ANI163_Varna_Outlier 4.77990586 SZ42 4.96589368 SZ12...

No, the title is ‘Illyrians’ in ancient ethnographic discourse by Danijel Dzino. You can't access the article? Maybe try here, direct pdf link.

Here is the document: https://www.scribd.com/document/382446292/D%C5%BEino-Illyrians-in-ancient-ethnographic-disco-pdf EDIT: open access: https://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/dha_0755-7256_2014_num_40_2_3944.pdf

Electric cars are a better idea than internal combustion machines. It's not that all problems implementing a new system are already resolved, but a global change in mass transportation is only at its dawn, there is still plenty left to learn and develop. Experts recently said that only...

It apears that many Scythian samples are Gelonians ... combinations of Greeks and Finnic Budinis.

Nice find :) If someone is not well acquainted with a topic, he can check classic book Les ntellectuels au Moyen Age by Jacques Le Goff. Translated probably in all EU languages. Informative, entertaining and short read.

I must say that I'm a little disappointed with the suggestions. So let's try to make it better ;) I will start with Russia. Andrei Rublev, not so much historical portrait as realist depiction if medieval life in Russia. Director is Andrei Tarkowski. Ivan the Terrible I and II by Sergei...

Tnx. I checked gedmatch and even with the lowest threshold of 25 SNPs it can't find larger segment than 7cM.

Strange Deep Dive ... one big block of cM. It seems odd, I don't have such big common cM with any modern person registered in gedmatch database. Ancient Gotlander 2750 BC Total cM=58.48 Largest segment=34.05 cM (2 shared. Sample quality: 2) A sample is probably labelled as Ajvide58 and he is...