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Some corrections. Latin was not the lingua franca in the East Med. Latin was the administrative language of the East Roman empire at first. It didn't really catch on. So the Greek language, the actual lingua franca, replaced it as an administrative language as well. Constantinople was founded...

It is fair to say that the Greek ethnos is ever evolving. I think you fail to see that by your standards many Ancient Greeks would not qualify as Greek. This perspective does not do historical justice. In that case we would have to speak of Homer being Achaean+Carrian, and Phillip of Macedon...

No, I don't know the haplogroup of Doliani. What I wrote about E-V13 was a sidenote. My point was that Doliani predates Albanian, Serbian and Ottoman rule in Epirus and this specimen STILL overlaps with North Greeks and Albanians. If this Byzantine individual overlaps with modern Greeks, then...

We should take note that the Byzantine specimen predates the Crusades, the Albanian, Serbian and Ottoman rule of Epirus. And still overlaps with the modern Greeks of the region. E-V13 decreases in Slavic as well as Vlach populations in comparison to Greeks and Albanians.

No they are inland samples north of Trikala. The place is quite isolated from the coast. You would need to cross a mountain range to reach the Aegaen. Without a modern road system, it would take a Bronze Age traveler 3 days to reach the Sea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31cb-uAqZXk

The research team has a video posted in Greek. I took the time view it. They argue that Abdera are colonists from Asia Minor. It concerns an Ionian Greek from the 6th century BC. They settled on the coast of Thrace. That specimen is really not that far off from modern Greeks of Asia Minor. The...

Illyrians during the 3rd millenium B.C. lived North of Albania. In what is today Bosnia&Herzegovina.Then they slowly migrated furth South into North Albania. That's where they absorved Neolithic people. Similar to the Neolithic people in Greece. After that the Illyrians moved South of the Drin...

Abd4 probably represent the Hellenistic graves of Abdera, Greek Thrace. (Update: they have a video in Greek where they explain their research. Abd4 is 700-490 B.C. So it is the classical age. They are colonists from Asia Minor) https://www.academia.edu/36208241/HELLENISTIC_GRAVES_IN_ABDERA.pdf...

Don't agree with you there. What Lazaridis proved was that first Greeks were Mediterranean, rather than anything else. And that the modern Greeks and neighboring peoples were similar to them, but with some delusion of their genepool. That was the essense of the research. Like the rest of us, he...

Agr1 overlaps with modern Cypriots. There is a necropolis in Cyprus also called Agios Georgios. From the Early Christian era. Could it be it? I don't know. Agios Georgios 9 is unlikely to be from Cyprus though. Too much speculation. Let's wait for the paper.

Perhaps a University in Thessaloniki was involved in the research.

Keep in mind that the extent of the habitat of the Greeks in classical times is pretty vast. From Asia Minor, to Crete, South Italy, Macedonia and Epirus. Seas, islands and mountains separate these people. And yet, they have less genetic variety than the modern Greeks. North Ancient Greeks may...

I can only make out Thessaloniki, Abdera as post Bronze Age. While Doliani is medieval. The rest is not on the chart. While the descriptions of other Iron Age Greeks is light hair and/or pale skin and in some cases light eyes. While Mycenaeans were described as very dark by Lazaridis. Where are...

The post Iron Age Greeks do not completely overlap with Mycenaeans. The Myceneans actually formed their own cluster. Some of the spesimens are closer to Sicilians and some Greek islanders. And I believe that the modern Greeks in this chart are the ones previously used for the Lazaridis'...

Biologically, cheating for men is not the same as it is for women. If a man cheats, he can impragnate another woman. But he can't convince his spouse that she is the mother. The woman can't be tricked. However, if a woman cheats, her man can be tricked into thinking the baby is his. And so he...

Based on your amateur models Early Slavic goes from over 40% in Bulgarians to 20% in Greek Macedonians, and continues to 10 % South of Greek Macedonia and less than 4% or absent in Greek islanders. Yet, there is no correlation between Early Slavic and Balkan IA. Balkan IA is high in almost all...

Wasn't that high rooted nose idealized by the Ancient Greeks? I believe it was the anthropologist Coon who said that a minority of Ancient Greeks had a high rooted nose.

This is also the position of Greek governments. As for historians and archaeologists disliking genetic testing. It makes sense as it renders a part of their work useless, as it can be condradicted by genetic evidence. The reality is that archaology and DNA studies have to work hand in hand.

The Northern Balkan tribes, who are more similar to Greek islanders than to people living in the Balkans today.... Who cares if Macedonians and Epirotans had more Steppe than Myceneans, if any. They probably have less steppe compared to all the people living in the region today. Including Greek...