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Not sure if I did it right, but apparently R-FTA30946? Which seems to be most common in France, oddly... That's kinda weird... so it's something Celtic maybe then? Here I was thinking the L-23 I got was through some local Thracian source eventually straight to the IE Yamnaya culture going...

Hm, I wonder about this. I'd imagine most of the Turkic/Central Asian input was restricted to the lowland regions of the south and east rather than the mountains in the center, and that what little there was of these politically dominant elite groups was soaked up by first a mixture of whatever...

Yep, I pretty much agree with most of this; it's what I've been saying. As far as one haplogroup becoming dominant at the expense of another, there could be many reasons for it, and the process could even be largely internal to a population, in which proportions of existing haplogroups change...

Ok maybe I overstated that initially (and it's a bit of a stereotype or generalization that northern Romanians are all gonna be more Slavic), but there is a little something to it. I know for a fact there were several hundred Ukrainian families that moved into the Maramures region several...

Yeah I've spoken to both Romanians and Aromanians about this issue over time (it helps that I have some background from both sides) and although many resisted the idea at first, they gradually kind of came around to it. Unlike some other people, I'm not gung-ho about any one idea or agenda, and...

Well unfortunately they don't have written evidence of the Dacian language itself other than place names and the names of various plants, and all of these were through the filter of some Latinized form. There are tons of theories about it, the most common being that it was related to Thracian...

A little essay of sorts on a controversial topic: Origin of Eastern Romance people or Vlachs (Romanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, Istro-Romanians) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ There has been ample debate about the...

Hard to really say but probably at least a few thousand more years; not sure how long our current world order is sustainable though. I think that even though, sadly, there will be some brutal, vicious essentially apocalyptic war, at least some elements of humanity may survive. At that point it...

This is pretty interesting stuff... but are they saying kissing was not a thing before then?? I find that very hard to believe. Seems like a natural almost animal kind of behavior. Do not all cultures do it?

This pretty much sums up what I think about it as well. There have been multiple "out of Africa" events in hominid history, and those others did seem to leave some genetic vestiges in mainstream "humans" by intermixing, although as their own bloodlines they largely died out... e.g. archaic...

More or less true... the shift from Latin to Greek by Heraclius/Iraklios wasn't actually this major official change like some think. Greek had already been the de facto dominant language in the east since the start and I don't think there was like official legislation passed to change it. They...

I wonder how much of Kalash culture derives from pre-IE, ancient native sources vs the Indo European migrants. They're supposed to carry on some old aspects of early Indo Iranian or proto-Vedic religion before the rest of it evolved into what became Hinduism eventually, but now there's some...

Lol hey man chill, I'm not arguing that. It's true many of us can be pretty "brunet" or a bit swarthy-ish sometimes, especially from the southern parts, even aside from the obvious gypsies. I'm not one of those who's claiming people are mostly blonde and northern and shit, that's silly. Look I...

That's interesting... whenever I search for pictures of Yakuts, a good number of them look like they're partly Russian or something, and less East Asian than Mongolians. Maybe those people weren't included in the studies or something, I don't know.

Yeah it's interesting how these differences arose. Regarding Welsh vs Cymry, the word Welsh derived from a Germanic term for foreigner, particular Celtic or Latin speaking (originally from the name of a Celtic tribe Volcae; see also Walhaz). This was also transferred to proto-Slavic as...

I honestly don't buy the Khazar theory for Ashkenazi origins. Just doesn't add up in many ways. There are admittedly a few Jews with some minor East Euro Turkic-Central Asian influences, but not on the scale that you'd be expecting if an entire Turkic people converted en masse and migrated west...

Some really great stuff here, thanks! (calusarii dance, which is pretty neat)

It's interesting, I noticed that for some reason a lot of people tend to think of Croatians just by the coastal and Dalmatian kind (which are more native and Mediterranean leaning), and forget about the bulk of the population in the inner part of the country that is a lot more Slavic, similar to...

It's fascinating how many names there are for the Danube, one of the longest rivers in Europe. But most of them all tie back to that same Celtic root 'Danu-', which dispersed into all kinds of different languages by different routes.