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The use of the label 'Cimmerians' is very problematic because in ancient sources it seems like a term used for some pre-Scythian inhabitants of the Pontic-Caspian steppe, some of whom migrated to West Asia after the Scythian migrations. Can we label all pre-Scythian inhabitants of the Steppe...

I don't know where these Greek live. Do you know? You didn't understand or don't want to admit that what you implied is offensive and inaccurate. (All Greek groups have some 'non-Greek' admixture) We don't need anyone to defend what is obvious (Peloponneseans don't overlap with Turks) while...

You will judge who is Greek?

How did you show that? Can you form an argument with the premises clearly stated?

Well, usually those who write about it aren't very specific about the exact sound they are talking about. Maybe it was a labiodental approximant, like Swiss German 'w'. (?) I don't believe any real difficulty exists though. Originally it should have been even closer to an /u/ sound.

What others said is correct more or less. There are artistic conventions in Cretan art. Αpart from that... The Greek sources point to some variance in pigmentation and both the lighter and darker pigmentations had some positive connotations in some ancient works. For example, the darker...

Pausanias uses that term for a population distinct than those he calls Iberians, those he calls Hellenes, those he calls Carthaginians and those he calls Trojans etc. (he says though that Carthaginians used Iberian and 'Libyan' mercenaries, that's probably the reason we shouldn't expect...

I don't understand your post. What do you know about the Y-DNA of ancient Libyans or Ligurians?

Concerning Corsica, the thing that I find interesting in ancient sources is that Pausanias calls Corsicans 'Libyans'. I have thought the possibility of a copying mistake. If, for example, where we find Λίβυες (Libues = Libyans) originally there was a Λίγυες (Ligues = Ligurians). That would...

It's not you. The studies are bad. Concerning the EVS study, I have to say that someone 1) can believe in a personal god and 2) be culturally Christian but act as a de facto religiously indifferent person. That is very common here.

Look, someone has said that the name Vajunites can be related to the name 'Paeonians'. Most linguists wouldn't even consider that, for various reasons, but there is at least one case where we have a shift p > xv or p > f in a toponym of a Slavic country. The island Hvar/Hvor/For in Croatia was...

Razib Khan, 'unlike Hitler', descends from Odin. He has said that. Indian journalists should be careful.

If Greece had defaulted in 2010 (when, for example, 70% of Greek government bonds were held by foreign investors, primarily banks) the problems for German and French banks would have been significant. Maybe manageable, but we can't know what would have been the impact of the default. The...

The fact that not all scholars agree doesn't mean anything. First of all the Βαϊουνίται would have been pronounced Vajunite / Vaiunite in medieval Greek. And Vagenetia would have been pronounced Vajenetia or at least Vaɣenetia. So, if it is a chance similarity it is a rather impressive one...

Greece should have left the euro 8 years ago. The truth though is that the parties which openly supported an exist from the Eurozone never got more than 1% of the votes. So, Italy is different.

The picures in the link in post #8 are from that site. The pictures in the Greek article in Yetos' post #10 should be from somewhere else.

Does he use the terms Austria and Slovenia? No. At least post what he has written exactly.

The photo in that article should be from a somewhere else. See the twitter account of Vagheesh Narasimhan ( Link in Angela's #8 post)

What do you mean different? More related to yourself? That the Trojan connection is 'pure phantasy' is the prevalent view but there might be something behind the myth. As I have said, for example, one possibility is that people had heard stories about a movement which didn't necessarily make a...

I am not sure I understand. I don't connect Early IE to R1b, or any haplogroup. If people with R1b subclades had expanded west, east, south, north etc already in the Bronze Age and earlier, they could have reexpanded with other groups, IE or not IE. That is true about any haplogroup. I have...