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Illogical reasoning. If the North-west BA Greeks were some Balkanic tribe, then what's to say about BA South Greeks being Minoan? Moreover the IE Greek language came from the North. These speakers may have absorbed Balkanic tribes, Minoans and what have you. It's all part of the ethnogenesis of...

I wonder if South Italians, prior to the Greek colonization, had knowledge of sharing common ancestry with Aegean/Minoan people in Ancient times. That knowledge may have been lost as the Aegeans were Hellenized by the first Greek waves.

Seems pretty reaonabe. I think that Pontians and Cappadocians may have the least amount of Mycenaean ancestry given that they are isolated from the Greek mainframe. Nevertheless, the Ancient Greek ancestry is substantial. And even more so if we consider that the Kura-Araxes ancestry may have...

For these specimens yes. But there may be some other researches in the pipeline. But one thousand Iron/Classical Age graves is a good find. Would make a fine paper.

One way or another. The area became part of Macedon. So these people were to become Classical Age Macedonians. And I doubt all are South Greek settlers. And lastly, let us not forget, we are all waiting for Classical Greek specimens from the mainland.

That's amazing. One thousand Iron Age and Classical Age specimens. Hope they will test some.

I see Vlachs in the Balkans as a diaspora population. Once removed from their source location, over the centuries, the minority group obtains genetic elements from the native populations. That what remains is the culture. I.e. Pontian Greeks are mostly local Anatolian, because they have evolved...

Greeks through the ages mostly absorbed newcomers with more Steppe admix. Be it Slavs, Vlachs, Albanians (the latter two also Slav admixed). Other than that, Greece and Anatolia were one political continuum since the late Bronze Age. So modern Greeks in comparison to Mycenaeans have more steppe...

Wasn't the Slavic admixture in Northern Greeks estimated based on the genetic signature of Lazarides'Mycenaeans? I am starting to consider that the main modern Greek deviation from Bronze Age Greeks and perhaps also later Greeks is the Anatolian component, acquired starting the Iron Age until...

The people higher in Steppe who entered Greece during the BA through the Balkan route settled in areas away from the sea, because that environment was familiar to them. They knew how to survive in that kind of habitat. They were Balkan folks who eventually descended from Eastern Europe. They...

It is noticeable that which are high in Steppe, be it in the Peloponnese, Central Greece or Thessaly are from a location not too close to the Sea. So during the BA it is the coastal region which had less steppe admixture, not just the islands. Logkas-like samples could have been found as far...

I have stated several times that Classical Greeks plot either close to Mycenaeans or a bit more northern. Perhaps though we didn't have enough Mycenaean specimens to establish that. There was one with more steppe in Crete_Armenoi, but it was discarded by Lazaridis due to bad quality. He once...

There is a source which is responsible for Paleo-Balkanic input (accompanied with more Steppe ancestry) into mainland Greece. The islands and the Peloponnese are largely excempt from this source until the late Bronze Age. In those areas, one can find traces of this source sporadically. That is...

Would really like to compare Theopetra and Sarakenos to modern populations. And also o Iron Age Paeonians, Illyrians and Logas. I wonder if the 'Balkans' encirclement includes mainland Greece. Seems to me that Sarakenos is very similar to Cretans, while Theopetra might be very similar to...

Ofcourse, regionalism is in decline all over Europe. But at much faster speed compared to what it was decades ago. Greece is no exception. Back in the day there weren't even roads to connect different locations. People were isolated in their own micro-cosmos. Confined by the mountains around...

Americans with 30% SSA ancestry are also considered black. And the average of SSA American who is 70% African does not even speak an African language, nor do they inhabit the continent of Africa, nor do they have a continuous litterary tradition. Modern Greeks being so close to Mycenaeans...

Thrace is bordering Anatolia. There could have been constant migration from Anatolia into Thrace. Resulting to Mycenaean-like Thracians. Proto-Greek speakers however could have entered through the Adriatic route, resulting to more Steppe admixture (Logkas) in certain parts of Greece. We can't...

They are still pulled towards Mycenaeans, who were approx 15% steppe, but these ones are more like 18% to 25%. I think Crete_Armenoi (also higher in Steppe) was somewhat neglected in the earlier study. Clearly there were some Mycenaeans with higher Steppe levels. There was considerable...

No, the Greek speakers came earlier than assumed. And they did come from the North. Why Mycenaeans had less steppe is also a puzzle to me. Perhaps people with less steppe also arrived in Greece. From the islands perhaps? Or some natives fled to the mountains/islands when the first newcomers...