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There is more admixture with Kyjatice, Encrusted Pottery related groups and Celts also. Illyrian admixture in ancient E-V13 is generally not more common than this type of Central European admixture which pulls the affected individuals in the West Balkan direction. Even some of the North...

The big issue we deal with, still, is that while there are now Northern-Central branches South of the Danube - somewhere - in the 1800-1600 BP SE transect from Akbari, that these samples have no significant IBD or haplogroup overlap with the Albanians. So we have an instance of a sex biased...

To demonstrete in detail what I have written above, that we deal with a totally E-V13 dominated fairly pure Daco-Thracian population which appeared unmixed on the scene and the admixture had a male sex bias, here the core group sampled which being dominated by E-FGC11457 over the generations...

When looking at the 1800 SE samples with E-V13, there is one group of samples which follow a serial number, together with females and non-E-V13 individuals. These are the samples...

For sure it was a switch to a different belief system for the clans and individuals which practised it. And the reason is easy to understand if looking at the maps, because the more Northern Illyrian groups in particular were completely surrounded by various Urnfield groups, from West to East...

I agree, Illyrians are among the better tested BA and IA people, most definitely. And the most distinctive feature of core Illyrian groups is the clan tumuli, in which multiple members of the clan were buried. Barely any other group was as strict about its inhumation rule as the Illyrian core...

That's absolutely wrong, because the switch to cremation is simply the result of a specific religious belief systems demands. There were many cultures which switched from inhumation to cremation while making a cultural leap forward. You can't generalise from the Greek Bronze Age case, in which...

The expansions and big founder events of haplogroups, all haplogroups I looked at, follow the same pattern in the pre-state era: They being associated with ethnic-tribal expansions which can be traced by the expansion of a material culture. This is true for R-Z2103, R-U152, I-M253, E-V13, J-L283...

We have the usual problem in the Dacian sphere of the locals being overwhelmingly cremated. This is even true in areas like Viminacium, in a later period, when a large fraction of the local population still got cremated, which causes inevitable some distortion. In this case at Apulum we really...

Well, the Roman Dacia paper is out and once more its a disappointment to some degree, first and foremost because of the number of male samples and secondly the resolution. There is just one confirmed E-V13, which happens to be basal...I hope someone can get a more downstream assignment of him...

Well, we have the following evidence: .) Autosomal proportions which fit either Thracians of various kind or a Thracian-Etruscan mix .) E-V13 patrilineages from Thracians .) Dating which fits post-UF to Pre-Roman period .) General region (SW Europe) .) IBD sharing of the mixed individuals and...

From 400 BC and earlier we have now multiple confirmed E-V13 individuals from SW Europe, most seem to be from Italy: us...

There are more very old samples from SW Europe - one belongs to E-PH3589, downstream of the Northern-Central branch of E-Y3183. From about 800-700 BC...

The new Akbari samples from Italy prove that at least SOME Thracians (and Greeks) came to the Etruscan/North Italian sphere. This is no longer about speculating around, this is about multiple actual finds from Italy dated between 800-300 BC which prove this unambiguously. If they were West...

I should add that the Etruscans plot completely outside of the Thracian range. E-V13 plots all over the place, but the Etruscan core being not covered. So similar to the South Thracian outliers, this half-Etruscan immediately sticks out: It is truly remarkable that even an individual with...

Usually its about a combination of uniparentals (yDNA and mtDNA already found in Etruscans), dating and Region (SW and before the Roman era Iron Age) and IBD sharing among themselves and with known Etruscan samples. The E-V13 is a full blown Thracian and in the data base we only see a...

I didn't write about a major influence in Etruscans, but just gene flow. The question is just whether this gene flow came via intermediaries (say Thraco-Cimmerian, Vekerzug, Eastern Hallstatt groups) or more directly (from Dacian and Thracian core groups in the East). The new sample has proven...

So far, what we can say with certainty, is that there was a migration of Daco-Thracians into Northern Italy and into Etruscan communities. This resulted in widespread IBD sharing between Daco-Thracians and Etruscans/North Italians. Just yesterday I found an individual case of a Thracian founder...

All the older Thracians appear to have their closest steppe matches with Carpatho-Danubian/Danube-Tisza Yamnaya so far. Like Northern Bulgaria, Eastern Hungary and Slovakia.

Well, we have LBA-EIA samples of Thracians from Greece and Macedonia. Typically, most are females or very mixed, like expected, because of practically all regulars being cremated. Therefore for proving early Thracian presence, females with Thracian profiles and IBD sharing will be as crucial as...