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It is pseudoscientific. But the results reflect self-perception. Maybe culture affects self-perception.

David Anthony is an anthropologist, not an archaeologist. And he talks about genetics, archaeology, linguistics. Certainly not an expert on these fields. Reich and those around him can and should form a hypothesis. Now they don't even have one.

I was never a fan of Maciamo either. I used to disagree on almost everything. I did not believe proto-Greeks and Mycenaeans had Z2103. (But that certain suclades could have arrived from more than too direction including east at a later date). I don't have strong opinions though. If they find it...

He had used the phrase 'Sintashta clones' on Anthrogenica. Find it to see what he had said exactly. Maybe it was more nuanced* than what I remember. Can you find it? If you can't find it don't quote me again. You don't see anything controversial? LOL. (I did not say anything about G25. I don't...

The TMRCA? And where it expands? I think people with that subclade may have moved west around 1200BC. Further back in time it can be Semetic related. I believe many would consider it Phoenician. (?) I think Trojans had J2a-L70? I haven't thought much about it though. I don't know much about...

Imho it can be Trojan (maybe a minor lineage, whatever its origins further back are). Maybe he had ancestors in Cilicia.

He had said it somewhere else, yes (on anthrogenica). Though I don't remember the exact words. Maybe the wording wasn't as bad as I remember it. These were his positions after the Mathieson et al. 2017 study, we knew then what the Balkans BA profile was at least then. Actually I don't want to...

You should wonder what YOUR point is because YOU quoted me.

Are you his representative? See if he had used the phrase 'Sintashta clones' on Anthrogenica too and post that too to get the whole picture. Those who have 'Sintashta horse bits as grave goods' can be 'Sintashta clones'. Is that YOUR position too? And what happens if they don't? We are talking...

Wait for an ancient Ionic sample and use other sources that could make historical sense e.g. a 'Colchian' CHG heavy source. Maybe Iranic (Persian), Anatolian (Cappadocian) and Semetic ('White Syrian') sources. Maybe Imperial Roman?

The questions I have are - Where is the Bronze Age R1a-Z283 from? - Where are the Mesolithic J2a-L26 from? - Where is the Mesolithic I1 from? Also what is their autosomal profile? And more information about R1b of 'unknown sublaces'.

Davidski had said that Mycenaeans would be 'Sintashta clones'. Can you mention a case where you had disagreed with him? Besides Sikeliot had an account on Anthrogenica for quite some time even though it was well known and obvious he was a troll.

What is exotic about these haplogroups?

A word that came to my mind was Greek tumbos (mound, burial mound and secondary meaning grave) It is probably from another language though, since there is a root tum- 'to swell' and indications that related words could have been used for mounts but even hills or mountains (a meaning 'small...

R1b>L754 also reached Oman at least 5-6k years ago. There could have been an R1b population that followed a route like Central Asia > Iran > Europe (Personally I don't think this has something to do with PIE but that's a different story.).

It is worse because it makes even less sense. In my opinion both are wrong. But some IE languages could have expanded with Corded Ware. Either way, I haven't read Kossina. He seems to be a man of his time, Germano-centric nationalist etc, but if 'steppe-dogmatists' exist today they are more...

But Kossina did not place PIE in the steppes. And also what is worse, Kossina's view Corded Ware = PIE or Anthony's Yamnaya = PIE?

Personally I believe Indo-Hittite. But there are other possibilities. 1) a language related to Kartvelian if Kartvelian was originally an EEF language. I have seen some Georgian scholars associating "pre-Greek" with 'paleo-Kartvelian' too. The approach is mostly flawed but interesting. 2) a...

In Greece today we have people who have brown hair with a blondish or reddish tint, the sun lightens the hair too etc. And actually the word xanthos which is translated as blonde or even worse yellow could have meant something like tawny. It is likely that it was used for light brown to dirty...

I cannot accept it or reject it. I think though that the word okeanos should be related to proto-Greek *ku(w)aneos 'blue'. There seem to be related words in Hittite and Sumerian but I think the meaning attested in Greek should be the primary meaning but it should be from a language different...