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Nakh languages have some similarities with IE. Concerning Chechen, for example. The ergative of the 1.SG pronoun is /ʔəs/ and we have nominative 'es' / 'as' in many IE languages. (like Lithuanian, Armenian) The 1.PL pronoun is /vəɪ/, fairly close to how it is reconstructed for IE by Beekes...

We can never be sure about those words because there is a chance that the Greeks (or other people for the names we have from other sources) had changed them to fit their own case system & phonological system etc. This certainly happened sometimes in Medieval and even Modern Greek until a few...

Well, the region of Caucasian Albania, which corresponds to modern Azerbaijan mostly was described as very fertile and its inhabitants as shepherds. This is one population that may have had certain R1b subclades. Caucasian Albanian language is thought to have been a North East Caucasian...

There is nothing rational about the concept of whiteness in US. Benjamin Franklin called Germans and Swedes 'swarthy'. I know that Greeks weren't considered 'white' in the US before WW2. In cinemas they had to sit with the 'non-whites'. They weren't accepted even in worker unions, so they had...

I'm not sure if all 5 points are correct but there are anachronisms in the texts because they were composed centuries after the Trojan War and written down even later.

In the study "The genetic prehistory of the Greater Caucasus", there is an .xlsx file (Supplementary Data 2) in the Supplementary materials which has 1405 samples, also the study in which each sample was published in column F https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/05/16/322347.figures-only

In general the idea that both the names Priamos and Paris were some short of titles which could have meant originally 'first' and therefore 'leader' is interesting.

This is interesting overall but the thing that is unlikely is that the verb 'to be' existed in the personal name. You should search for Indo-European or {Albanian (or proto-Albanian)} suffixes that make sense. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Proto-Indo-European_suffixes You should take...

You said 'samples', not sample. I don't believe the Bronze Age samples have anything to do with where an haplogroup that old originated, so we have the Hunter Gatherer from Satsurblia cave. That hunter gatherer sample is dated ~13.000 years before. The possible time of origin of J1 is 31.600 ybp...

When someone writes something like that I expect them to mention the ancient samples they have in mind and link to data about J1 diversity. Either way, when I write 'could' I mean it is theoretically possible. It's not what I consider most likely. We are talking about an haplogroup with a...

The word 'Leleges' could have been Indoeuropean. Because there is an IE root leǵ- (to 'gather'), which also gave Greek λέγω (put in order, arrange, gather, choose, count, reckon also say, speak, converse) and λόγος (speech, reason, ratio, account etc) And Greek often formed the perfect with...

J1 could have originated in Europe. At least, it could have existed in South East Europe, Ukraine and North Caucasus during the Epigravettian (Upper Paleolithic). There are many theories concerning the Etruscans. I personally believe the original Tyrrhenians originated in Central Europe, but...

They have many haplogroups and that should have been true about the speakers of Common Turkic. Concerning Q, it has been said (from Wikipedia) Concerning R1a, Tatars in Tatarstan have relatively high frequency with high variance.

And there are many who can and don't. (most of them) By the way, I said 'If a denomination X requires weekly church attendance, you can't be 'practicing X' without weekly church attendance.' Maybe some people work on Sunday mornings. Ok. What is the problem of the others? They can't wake up...

The post you quoted is from 2010 and it doesn't contain facts. Concerning the possibility of R1a in Macedonian elites, theoretically anything is possible, but it is not very likely. By the way, the history of all haplogoups is more complex than what is thought. There are many things which are...

By the way, we don't have autosomal DNA from Early Dynastic Egypt or the Old Kingdom, unless I have missed something. Every study Haak is involved has titles that are not supported by the data of the studies.

What type of exotic admixture do you expect if the Greeks were mostly ANF + CHG?

If you had said 'more closely related to Illyrians', maybe it would have been more possible. I think though that the Dorians who expanded south seem to have been, partially related to one population who originally inhabited South Thessaly, maybe during the Bronze Age. And to the Heraclidae...

Maybe, though that depends on the denomination. If a denomination X requires weekly church attendance, you can't be 'practicing X' without weekly church attendance. Either way, even some of those who do go to church regularly see it as a social event.

Is someone who goes to a church once a month really 'practicing'? Why the don't go every week? Do they follow the teachings of their religious group? Do they read their scriptures etc? Actually, practicing Christians are significantly less than what that study shows.