Recent content by Riverman

I don't think that's big factor at all. It is not even a big contradiction. Rather, I think Rohrlach was occupied with other projects and the coordionation of all these authors is a huge minus. I guess they recommended to him, that he needs to involve all the experts in a more thoroughly...

On the Transylvanian Bronze Age paper, this is the list of authors from 2025: https://mjolt.ro/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Raport-activitate-Muzeul-Judetean-Olt-2025.pdf Note that many of the leading archaeological experts of the Romanian Bronze Age, many of which I quoted in the past, being...

It is natural preference and genetic predisposition of average males vs females. People only work in fields they don't like to work in if they being pressured into them by some sort of force.

The problem is also something different: Many people which "want children" only want 1 or 2, or even if they want more, they still stop after the first because of a variety of circumstances and having a larger family being simply no priority. E.g. I knew a couple which bought a relatively small...

We don't have any information about their exact area of origin.

One of the earliest E-V13 Albanian ancient DNA samples is still this one from around 800 AD...

Welcome to the EU... The question is of course also which groups provide the largest numbers. I guess its Ukrainians.

If even the corrupted parliament voted against it with a significant majority, but missed "the threshold" and it will be stil implemented, it tells you a lot about the value and importance of the EU parliament. And those absent can either claim they didn't vote or were not informed in time to...

North Vatin samples might be among the "South Pannonian" paper samples, but that's problematic because the locals did usually cremate, which means just like in Gomolava the individuals which were not burnt might be non-locals or sacrificed people. Also, North Vatin might not be identical to...

Paracin-Brnjica implies a South Vatin origin. This is an open question as to whether groups from the North (Belegis, Gáva, Vartop) did replace the local South Vatin people, or other groups from the South East (Insula Banului, Psenichevo) or there was regional continuity (like there seem to have...

In this context it is probably interesting to see what we got for Pre-Dacian resettlement times. We have e.g. a sample from Naissus from https://discover.familytreedna.com/y-dna/E-Z16663/tree and its branch E-BY15396. From E-BY15396 we have a new oldest sample, I35196 from 2089 BP, and...

That's possible, sure. From a genetic point of view, that surely happened. But from an ethnocultural point of view: Which elements did still exist in that time frame? E.g. we know that Dacians existed at least up to around 400-500 AD, because we have the records about resettled Daco-Carpic...

I think such linguistic influences are always hard to pin down, but I might add something interesting on the matter, because most of the J-L283 branches of Albanians are clearly bottlenecked, while some of the biggest E-V13 branches (like E-PH2180) are clearly not and are extremely likley to...

I tend to think that E-Z5018 was expanding with Gáva-Holigrady, rather, whereas E-Z5017 did so with Belegis/Belegis II-Gáva. This would explain why we have a strong bottleneck for E-Z5018, exactly before the post-Otomani/Wietenberg/Balta Sarata horizon with Suciu de Sus/Cehalut, after which it...

I thought about many of these things too, but think that Belegis into Basarabi was likely dominated by E-Z5017/CTS9320 with little E-Z5018. One of the main reasons I think this is the case is the curious absence of E-Z5018 and especially main E-S2979 branches from the ancient DNA record anywhere...