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It essentially reflects -nt, which can be IE/ IE related (check similar Anatolian suffixes first of all and the parallels in other languages which exist). With -os or -a etc being Greek suffixes, see how e.g. in Lithuanian Karl Marx becomes Karlas Marxas. So a name like Korunthos, has a root...

Sorry for quoting myself but also not all CHGs were speaking the same language, not all EHGs were speaking the same language etc Personally I don't associate early IE with CHG but one population assumed to be non-IE having something like ~20 CHG doesn't prove anything.

It is the nature of the texts that make decipherement difficult along with the fact that we don't know if the signs had the exact same values as Linear B. If we had texts that were long e.g. like hymns or poetry and knew the values of the signs we would be able to decipher it. Also the so...

J2 is supposed to be 32 thousands years old. There should be specific clades moving from Iran. I am not very familiar with the phylogeny but most clades which survive at least might not be from Iran. Time will tell. I was one of those that very early defended the role of J2a haplogroup for...

Which Y-DNA haplogroups you associate with movements from Iran to Greece? In order for a movement from Iran to Greece to have taken place some clades later found in Greece should be proven to have existed in Iran first. The term 'Iranian-related' is a misnomer. Note that no one uses a term like...

If you really study the tombs and burial practices you will see a much more complex reality. Greek can theoretically be from a group within the ANF - Steppe Eneolithic continuum, that formed before Yamnaya came to be. Yamnaya could represent something like proto-Cimmerians and related groups...

I don't have a problem with your view but if we follow mythology there are traditions of movement from Greece to that region. The Argonautes, the Story of Jason and Media. The story of Perseus. Also a story about a movement towards Syria, Lebanon associated with the story of Io. I have opinions...

It says nothing. Just a link to Anthony. There are no similarities. The were clay funeral masks in Levant PPNB (?) I think. ChatGPT said: Funerary masks are a form of ceremonial or ritualistic face covering used to cover the face of the deceased during burial or funeral rites. They are often...

Which connections? The practice of the face clay masks in Catacomb comes from the Levant. And also proto-Greeks did not use clay masks. And they did not use golden masks either and the best examples of gold funerary masks are from Egypt. The only thing that I consider possible theoretically is...

The following quote is correct: https://twitter.com/iosif_lazaridis/status/1562894181454200832 That makes possible my idea: Anatolian being native in Anatolia (south and/or West Anatolia, not eveywhere), early prescence in Anatolia and early divergence. Early split between Anatolian and...

The impression I get reading it is these Mukians could have possibly been an Iranian population. The Ainianae of Strabo appear to be Greek (or Greek in origin because language shifts are possible in an area dominated by another linguistic group). Most probable interepretation is that they moved...

First of all you should check how old is the toponym, especially if it is pre-Turkic or not and if it has a plausible etymology in languages like Turkic or NE Caucasian etc. Secondly, Greeks never identified as Mycenaeans, one of the early names is ~Akhaioi, maybe used for the Eastern group...

Albanian is from 'Old Europe' I believe. The interesting thing I saw on one of their graphs was Albanian being grouped with Tocharian, with Armenian and Greek forming another branch, together forming an Albanian-Tocharian/Greek-Armenian branch. I don't think this is correct but it may reflect...

I actually largely agree. Not sure about 'south of the Caucasus'. It is possible but it was not my first option. In my opinion, certainly Anatolian originated in Anatolia. I was sure about Greece that it didn't have anything to do with Yamnaya itself. I would be more willing to believe Greek...

My hypothesis would be that R1b-V88 moved to Africa during the Green Sahara period. It was from a European Hunter Gatherer related population, maybe what we call WHG. So there could be traces of this probably WHG related West Eurasian language in Chadic. Then we should see if some of them...

It doesn't need to be proto-Greek. But it is inside the cline that is formed before Yamnaya came to be. Maybe inside this Anatolia Neolithic-Steppe Eneolithic cline what is called 'nuclear Indo-European' is formed, with Anatolian being native in South and West Anatolia (and Anatolian related...

Which shows that there was no movement from Yamnaya culture itself to Greece. A cline is formed before Yamnaya comes to existence. And Yamnaya has ancestry from further west (where R1b-Z2103 may come from likely being WHG in origin) That also means there is no reason to use Yamnaya to model...

Take your pills.

Anatolian, the linguistic group is not 'western' but not 'oriental' either. I said the word zournas is probably Anatolian in origin (Luwian specifically) and that it descends from the IE root for 'horn'. The Iranian etymology looks like a folk etymology and it can be wrong. It is interesting...

Zorba's dance is essentially a modern Greek composition. (Personally I don't really like Theodorakis in general). Greeks can make music that is not as oriental as he would like. There is nothing Italian or Ionian about the song. The instruments are definιtely not Italian or Ionian. The name...