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Why split hairs of the Greekness of the Ancient Macedonians? So people from North Macedonia or others can act if they have a beef in this? They are not even in the ball game. Not historically, geographically, linguistically, culturally, genetically. No litterary tradition. Nothing. There simply...

They can be labelled as proto-Greeks. They formed in Thessaly. Not in the Peloponnese. The latter are the Bronze Age historical Greeks and not the proto-Greeks.

What if I would say that they had difficulties understanding each other, but still have a common Hellenic root? What if I would say that plays in theatres used different translations for different Greek audiences? How about that if you wanted to be a merchant or a diplomat you had to study...

I am not sure how to interpret this intermixture. The first Greek speakers are recorded in Epirus and part of Thessaly. From there waves went South culminating to the Mycenaeans. Some of those protoGreeks stayed behind. A few centuries later another group of these people migrated Eastwards...

There is a key difference between Macedonians and Greeks in the Classical era. The Macedonians resembled the Late Bronze Age Greeks much more than they resembled the Classical Greeks of the South. Their religious practices, the weight on the Homeric traditions, their political hierarchy...

You somewhat misrepresent the facts. There was no Greece, as in Greek nation state. So one can’t conquer Greece in that sense. In this line of thought, there were particular Greek alliances with their own agendas for domination. There certainly was though, a concept of Greece referred to as...

This delves too much into Balkan skepticism. I won’t assume that every research for the last 15 years is sponsored by Bulgaria or something of the sort. Especially considering history, language and geography confirms the results.

Researches? Honestly, don’t see why should go there really. It’s pretty much common knowledge. Comparing Macedonian Slavs and Bulgarians is not paleogenetics. It’s not something new. Virtually every research I have seen in the last decade confirms that. Now, we can debate about methodologies...

By comparing populations there is no way that Slavic Macedonians on average are closer to Italian populations, rather than Bulgarians. All researches show that. There are some outliers which pull towards Serbs and some towards Greeks.

Modern Greeks and Italians are closer to Paleo Balkan people like Paeonians. And Paleo Balkan people in general. Let’s keep to the facts. Nothing wrong with that. Ancient Macedonians are likely more Med than modern Greeks. They are not even close to South Slavs. As for modern Macedonian...

Before Macedonians settled in the valley of Emathia (core of Macedonia) it is said that they pushed out Paeonians, who were closely related to Phrygians. The Greeks called them Bryges. They were probably pushed out of the region by the Dorian migrations. But in such a proces I would argue that...

There was no Greece. There were just people speaking a similar language and shared the same Gods and customs. Macedonians beat an alliance of some of those people at Charonea. But it has nothing to do with one being Greek and the other not. Nor did they conquer Greece in that battle. Just...

Exact same location as the Mycenaeans from the 2017 Lazaridis paper. Perfect comparison material.

It would not be surprising if the Vlach language lacks maritime words. As they are a not a coastal people. Illyrians of course were connected to the sea. The Vlachs were migrating to the South Balkans after the Slav migrations. Perhaps both Vlachs and Albanian speakers were displaced by Slavs...

Well, I would argue the late Middle Ages to be prior to the Renaissance which starts around the 14th century AD. And I doubt that in the region of modern Albania, the inhabitants were speaking anything close to Albanian during the time of the Slavic migrations. In fact, it was a desolated region...

E-V13 located awfully close to the Aegean and Anatolia during the Iron Age. And in quite high rates. Albanians seem to have been formed during the late Middle Ages. It explains the lack of native maritime words in their vocabulary. But similar Balkan migrations which resulted into Albanians may...

Indeed. The LBA Cretans are very different from MBA Cretans. Consider that a part of the Mycenaean Cretan population which plotted close to Minoans is not visible in LBA Cretans. A totally new cluster is formed which is different even compared to the MBA Mycenaeans. A clear population shift. We...

-In the EBA we notice a population in Greece without steppe admixture. -In the MBA we see that there is some Steppe admixture in mainland Greece (Lazaridis). -We also notice that in the MBA there is considerably more Steppe admixture in Thessaly. (Logkas specimens) -Next, we notice that, at...

But the Eastern model does not entail that they were island hoppers. More likely they crossed the Bosporus. Which means they came from the North into Southern Greece.

Are you suggesting that they spoke some form of Greek in the South? Prior to areas such as Thessaly and Epirus?