Recent content by Ralphie Boy

Just received or noticed an interesting update from Ancestry, that both parents (parent 1 and parent 2) have their closest matches to people in the West Anatolia and Aegean Islands community.

Thanks. Was just playing around with Ancestry's tools and discovered some of my closest matches have Southeast Peloponnese, according to the company's database. Wish there was a feature where one can click on neighboring relevant subcommunities to see frequency and other data. Also just...

First result. After combing through matches, my “community” of closest matches has low levels of Aegean Islands, Balkans, East European Roma (under 10%). These consistently appear in matches (All have low levels of Eastern Europe). Some more distant matches have higher amounts, but not often...

I believe so. L70 was not found in Republican Rome. The earliest it turns up in the Roman world is the Imperial period, in Marche. Also, the autosomal profiles of some or most of the ancient samples show they were not indigenous but came from the people who temporarily shifted the Rome...

Lazaridis et al. argue strenuously in the Southern Arc supplementals that the Imperial Roman influx was not just Anatolia/East Med like, but actually from Anatolia. If memory serves, that would be people from the Hellenistic places studied in the Southern Arc. Waiting and wondering if J2a-L70...

FTDNA has a tool for public use that allows people to find ancient Y DNA connections and other interesting info. https://discover.familytreedna.com/

There is also an unofficial R1b from Ambrakia of the Classical age.

In practically all academic studies, or in most of them, mainland Greeks and Albanians plot the farthest south of anyone in the Balkans, not counting the Greek islands. The Mycenaean study is one arguing for more local ancestry among Albanians and mainland Greeks, put forth in a heat map. This...

This is an interesting finding/argument from the Roman Balkans IA study, about modeling mainland Greeks:

This study does appear to accord with the Stamatoyannopoulos study, which also found substructure in the Peloponnese: “We find considerable heterogeneity of Peloponnesean populations exemplified by genetically distinct subpopulations and by gene flow gradients within Peloponnese.”

According to this study that has yet to be published, the ancient Greek settlers of Campania brought “Aegean” ancestry. Not really sure what this means without seeing the results, but this ancestry was in Greeks at least as far back as the 8th century BC and lasted for a few centuries...

Study: More EEF than EBA in most modern Brits Abstract Present-day people from England and Wales harbour more ancestry derived from Early European Farmers (EEF) than people of the Early Bronze Age1. To understand this, we generated genome-wide data from 793 individuals, increasing data from...

This study argues there’s strong demographic impact on the Iron Age Balkan population ancestors from the Eastern European Slavs, and by the 10th century (Kuline samples) there was substantial mixing but no replacement. This argument supports not necessarily using modern South Slavic samples to...

If the leaked early Slav samples are like Poles and Ukrainians, that could vindicate the Greek Peloponnese study that was ripped for assuming invading Slavs were northern-like and not heavily Balkan-admixed. Maybe using Balkan Slavic samples would have given the opposite and incorrect impression...

The ancient Greek results seem to be trickling in from colonies, and if I interpret right they were Mycenaean-like (except for possible admixture with locals). As we know, the rumor is that classical Greeks were heterogenous, which would not be surprising given their separation into city-states...