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So the Ottoman individuals carried higher Turkic admixture than modern Turks do on average. In the Early Bronze Age the EHG levels in Greece were up to 25%. In contrary to the MBA Mycenaeans who had some 15%. Seems like they were more similar to MBA Thessalians Log01 and Log02. Or it could be...

There surely were different populations within Greece. Yet I for one doubt that E-V13 was completely absent early on in the Greek peninsula. But I can't discard that it was more dominant in the Northern part. I wouldn't call it Thracian, because these carriers may simply have swept over the...

It's not going to be luck if I turn out to be right. We know that Greeks founded, settled and inhabited Nicaea. They were speaking Greek in that city. And autosomically they were Aegean peoples. Not Anatolian or Balkan. We have very few Ancient Greek specimens. Only four samples from mainland...

How can we know it's Thracian? We don't have specimens from Ancient Greece. And also take note that Nicaea was colonized from North Greeks. We have zero specimens from North Greeks so far. Besides, if these people from 2000 years ago were Greek speakers, they're Greek in my book.

It's unlikely that E-V13 just appears like like a newly arrived migrant to a Cosmopolitan city. During that time, Nicaea was days of travel away from Constantinople. Being near that place in modern travel distance means nothing. If anything, Nicaea was colonized by Macedonian Greek tribes during...

Going to make a bald prediction. I believe that E-V13 is centered in Central to Northern Greece (Thessaly, Macedonia, Epirus). The people there influenced people around them. South Greeks, Illyrians, Thracians. It's just that we don't have any samples from that area.

Clearly Himera is a mixed population. The ones who are suspected to be Greek and Mycenaean-like are pulled towards the local Sicilians. As such, it is difficult to pinpoint where exactly the Classical Greeks plot. However, like in the yet unpublished paper which included mainland Greeks, some...

This whole Greekness thing of the Ancient Macedonians is overblown by modern political agenda's and competing nationalisms of modern Balkan nations. I don't even care about the fact that they participated in the Olympics. Nor do I care about their rivalry with the Athenians. The Macedonians...

Pelagonia was populated by Molossians when it was annexed by the Macedonans during the Classical Age. I don't know exactly if the Molossians were inhabiting the area during the Iron Age as well. The Macedonians certainly weren't. The alternative is that some Illyrian tribe was settled there...

You are missing the point. Macedonian samples are only Macedonian until we have Macedonian samples and not Paeonian. Furthermore, the Paeonian samples which are compared to Mycenaeans are from a different period of time as well. On that note, the differences between Paeonians and Bronze Age...

The alternatives would have been arbitrary indeed. But labeling them Ancient Macedonian is simply false.

I wouldn't be surprised that Hellenistic people from Macedonia proper plot closer to Mycenaean peoples. For starters, unlike the South Illyrians, the Macedonians inhabited an area next to the Aegean. But I like to keep an open mind. Perhaps the Ancient Macedonians are closer to the...

Why do you refer to an IA Thraco-Illyrian sample as Ancient Macedonian? Let's keep it historically accurate. I am delighted that we have IA samples from that region. So it plots close to the Thessalian Log 02 and Log 04 samples. I long speculated that during the Iron Age another wave of people...

I think most people left the city, including the people who belonged to the Levant. But they were probably dissolved in Italy. Some elites must have migrated to Constantinople.

As some argued correctly. Current geographical North Macedonia was not inhabited by Ancient Macedonians. But what people missed out on, is that during the Iron Age (dating of NorthMac samples) there was no Macedonia in Northern Greece either. The Macedonians settled there only later, or were...

All empires die from within they say. First the city decayed, then it was sacked. Same is true for Constantinople. It was a mere shadow of its former self when it was conquered by the Ottomans.

I always though of the Paeonians as Thracians, or a Thraco-Illyrian mix of some sort. Some scholars also attested to the fact that they were closely connected to the Greeks as well. According to Homer they were related to the Phrygians living in Northern Greece. The Phrygians were dislocated by...

Is there a way of estimating Slavic admixture in Macedonian Slavs if we compare IA North Macedonia to Macedonian Slavs?

Greek Macedonians do not overlap to IA Thracians or Mycenaeans. So there is always room for the Slavic newcomers to be absorbed in Greek Macedonia. When comparing modern Greeks to Mycenaeans, of all modern Greek populations Greek Macedonians usually come up as least related to them (aside...

It is possible that many of the native people of North Macedonia (former Paeonia) fled South during the Slavic invasions. Looking for refuge closer to the Greek world and the Aegean. It makes sense, because the people living there were already Greek Orthodox Christians and part of the Greek...