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Thank god, we have an Iranian to tell us what is Greek and what is not. He doesn't understand he acts like the French or American tourists he mentions. Zorba's dance is 'Modern Greek', not Ionian. Are the instuments 'Ionian'? A modern Greek composer can have 'Western' influences or formal...

' The Muslims were a plurality in Macedonia (the Greek region, not the country) too. But probably they had mixed background, Albanian and Slavic. Some Greek elements too. Their descendants are in Turkey.

This text is a little incoherent. Either way, the terms Caphtor and Keftiu have no obvious connection to Crete. They seem more similar, superficially at least to the toponym Cappadocia. I see in Wikipedia the following though (It has a reference but I cannot check it now): Now a question can...

Diet high in calcium plays a role? Or dairy. Some don't fit 100% like e.g. Finland but some studies have supported a correlation or something. Other than that the best thing about Islam (one of the few) is prohibiting alcohol.

First of all, the Greek sources roughly say there were 2 'native' populations, the Eteocretans and the Kudonians, some Greek or Greek-related populations that came later from the Greek mainland: the Achaeans, the Dorians and the Pelasgians and in some sources another 'barbarian' population that...

This is a myth.

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Herodotus mentions something he had heard you know, like a tradition, it seems to have been something like the Exodus narrative for example. A story that existed among the Lydians to be clear, not among the Etruscans. The story about the famine and a colony to a far away place could have been a...

I have thought about that too. A large part of Adriatic was a a plain during the LGM. Also (this may be important for other haplogroups or an important parallel at least), part of the Aegean sea was a plain, with one large island conventionally called Cycladia today. Paros and Naxos etc were...

Which timeframe? TMRCA is important for the living descendants, not the place of origin, if we are talking about the area where it formed. Early samples do not prove it did not exist earlier elsewhere.

It can be native in Balkans. It is more economical to assume it is native. There were probably hunter gatherers in parts of Balkans maybe similar to Anatolian HGs. It could have existed among them. It formed 9700 years before but the TMRCA is 5500 ybp. J2b-L283 and J2b-Z2432 should have...

The interesting thing imho is the following: It seems that some Ionic Greeks had Y-DNA J2a-Y14434 (taking into account Spata and Phocis samples). The Pelagonians in what is now North Macedonia probably had the upstream clade J2a-Y13128 (taking into account the Plaosnik samples). Based on the...

In the study they have an example of movements (establishment of colonies and emporia) without admixture: Phoceans move from mainland Greece to Anatolia, from Anatolia to Marseille and then Catalonia without mixing with other populations in Anatolia or West Europe and they have a 'Mycenaean'...

He doesn't say what you say. Movements from Anatolia are consistent with the myths e.g. the myth o Pelops who is presented as Lydian or Phrygian. Movements from Levant are also consistend with the myths. E.g. the Hellenes are expelled from Pthiotis by Cadmeans according to Herodotus.

Whatever. Your issues are psychological. The point is you should not use Herodotus to support whatever you want to support. He is more of an 'autochthonist'. "Hellenes" while they presented as πολυπλάνητοι they move from Central Greece to NW Greece, then south and some islands (Rhodes, Crete).

First of all Herodotus has an almost anti-Ionian bias and Halikarnassos was a Dorian colony. Secondly he equates Dorians with Hellenes and the Makednoi, something not seen anywhere else, His narrative is Spartans = Dorians = an Hellenic ethnos Athenians = Ionians = a Pelasgian ethnos...

Greeks or some Greeks had a small EHG shift but on the Skourtanioti paper 'Minoans' and 'Mycenaeans' essentially form a cluster with Tepecik-Ciftlik.. Imho it is theoretically possible proto-Greeks or Greco-Phrygians even to have been Logkas like or to have been similar or broadly similar to...

Imho this paper is a ridiculous attempt to save the 'steppe hypothesis', not really oppose it. Yamnaya itself may not have been IE in the first place. Now we see another R1b-rich non-IE group who a) didn't care to impose their ancestral language (why?) or b) they were not speaking the...

What is now North Macedonia was not inhabited by Greeks. The Pelagonians though near what is now Bitola appear Greek, Greek-related or Greek-like and samples inside or near (?) that region were J-Y13128. https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Y13128/ I don't know what is the profile of these samples...

There are some people of European background usually that like to present Indoeuropeans as 'warlike' but 'pre-indo-Europeans' or non-Indpoeuropeans as 'peaceful' or weak in one way or another etc. The truth is most IE groups at least seemed to have been generally 'warlike' but many other non-IE...