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Whats the source for these 50 skeletons? Never heard anything about a study on Diber.

50 skeletons in late Iron Age Diber? That's interesting. But obviously if they're iron age they certainly aren't Goths. Of course some samples could be more recent depending if they're carbon dated. Also, I suspect heavy J2b-L283. After a batch I sponsored in Diber, they have some diversity...

Sadly this woman is in control if all the Komani cultural sights from Lezhe to Oher and she is not allowing it. Not so much unfamiliar as much as thinking it's hocus pocus. Or if you want to be a conspiracy theorist like myself, she's getting paid off by our neighbors lol.

I doubt they weren't tested when the rumors were specific about finding J2b-L283/R1b/E-V13. Unless we're talking about different studies. But it was the South of Albania, yea. My guess is she's terrified results won't match expectations. For some extra conspiracy theories, maybe she's getting...

We don't even have Southern Illyrian DNA yet. So its technically guesswork on all sides until we actually get ancient samples. Sadly the woman in control of most archeological sites in North Albania, including Komani culture is anti-genetics and won't allow testing. Going by sampling and Y-DNA...

It was discussed on Anthro a couple times. I could be wrong. Maybe I'm mixing things up lol

Who said anything about Pelaagians? They weren't even Indo-Europeans. I never even brought them up. No need for assumptions. When I'm saying Balkanite I'm speaking about the present population. If you want to get technical and keep going back with a time machine, most Proto-Indo-Europeans...

The highest diversity if I-Y3120 is within Ukraine/Belarus. The bear entirety of Balkan Y3120 is the result of bottlenecks and founder effects. It was likely already with the Proto-Slavs by the time of its tmrca and was probably absorbed around the North East Carpathian arch. The Greek branch...

Sardinia was invaded and settled a number of times and is by no means homogeneous. If I recall, most of their J2b-L283 is related to that of the Balkans, and likely arrived with the Byzantine occupation of that island. And Balkaners, especially Albanians, were under the Byzantines. So J2b-L283...

That's incorrect. E-V13 has it's highest diversity in the Balkans regardless of the spread. You practically can find an Albanian flag in yfull at every level of the step tree even if outliers. There's really no comparison with I-Y3120 which has its diversity in Ukraine/Belarus, despite the...

PH1751 as a whole seems more diverse around Northern Albania. As far as I'm aware, between both projects, Kosova is still very under-sampled, so that could of course change in time. I mean, I guess 300-400 is not too few but still, at least 1000 from Kosova would be a nice measure. So far most...

Northern Greeks have a ton of R1a/I-Y3120, and their ratios seem to coincide with that of autosomal Slavic-like ratios which is more like 40% and not 1/3. However, if some E-V13 clades in Avars piggy backed with Slavic tribes in the early medieval to the Balkans, some branches could be...

Its not Slavic. Perhaps he meant to say that if some of the E-V13 in these Avars(who also had Slavic admixture) is related to some E-V13 in the Balkans, then, perhaps at least recently some(and not all) E-V13 may have a more recent Avaro-Slavic extraction and spread. In which case some E-V13 in...

If I recall correctly, supposedly an upcoming paper on Albanian aDNA(think more the South of Albania??) has E-V13 appearing in Iron Age Albania and J2b-L283 in Middle to late BA Albania together with R1b-PF7652.

Of course. Never stated otherwise. I was responding to the irony in his statement to over exxagerate the Illyrian Y-DNA presence in Croatians/Bosnians whilst simultaneously trying to downplay and deny Albanian connection to Illyrian despite the higher concentration and diversity of J2b-L283 in...

Not really wrong. J2b-L283 is relatively quite low in Bosnians and Croats. Boggles my mind your little crusade against Albanians being Illyrian despite the super high concentration of J2b-L283 and relative diversity. You see a handful of Balkan Slavs with some J2b-L283 Illyrian clades and you...

Blood feuding is common to many Albanians. It makes no sense to tie a tradition dating back ages to one specific haplogroup. Plenty of high J2b-L283 areas that were heavy in blood feuding.

Komani Asian? That's bizarre. If anything Komani represents the fusion between Proto-Albanian and Avaro-Slavs that likely led to the Albanian ethnogenesis of the early medieval. Problem with verifying this is, the woman in control of Komani archeological sites is Anti-Genetics and won't allow...

Yea. The problem is he is no call for YP263 which defines those downstream branches. So its likely to remain R-L1029 given the lack in confidence of placement. If any moderns ever pop up that form a branch with the sample it could change in the future. Recently some of the L1029's with no calls...

Don't think it was mentioned. The recent British Paper also found an Iron Age La Tene sample dated to 250BCE in Bohemia, Czechia that was R1a-L1029. It was predicted R-YP5267 however this is a no call based on yfull, including a number of other downstream branches. Yfull has currently left it as...