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We don't have enough Bronze Age samples to make any statistical claims about EV13 or really about any other haplogroup. The ones we have are from royal tombs. When we have samples from common folks then we can actually make some informed guesses. It's like drawing conclusions about modern...

No significant autosomal ancestry. Y-Dna yes it is Phoenician/Levantine but not the autosomal.

I know of a set of female bones from about 500AD that were dug up from a garden in Tyheron, Evros, Greece. They are probably gathering dust in some drawer in the Ephorate of Archeaology for Macedonia/Thrace. Yes I know that's not really mainland Greece but Northern/Northeastern Greece. I don't...

Looks like one of my nephews.

https://www.science.org/content/article/greeks-really-do-have-near-mythical-origins-ancient-dna-reveals If you cannot read the whole article which I recommend, have Google or GPT4 summarize it for you.

Black people comprise 12-13% of the population of the US. I guarantee you that they are over represented in the movies and TV shows. On the other hand Latino people are 19% of the population but they are underrepresented in the movies and TV shows. It seems that Hollywood is trying to make up...

I see internal migration to bigger cities and depopulation of small settlements happening all over Greece. We have not lost as much population as some other Balkan countries because some Albanians and Bulgarians emigrated to Greece and because some Greek Pontics from the Caucasus area also...

I like the fact that the samples come from a mix of grave types and not just royal tombs.

While we love the 100 new samples, we must remember that Phaleron was a port city and thus attracts many non-locals. Isotope analysis should shed some light on local/non-local divide. Also we must not try to generalize to the rest of the country because well Phaleron is not a typical Greek City...

Had a few Iranian friends that I worked with. One had blue eyes and sandy blond hair and taller than the average Iranian. Another one was short with brown hair and eyes good looking guy and could pass for Greek, Italian, Spanish or Southern French. Then we had the guy from Southern Iran possibly...

My new results: Greece and Albania: 67.5% Balkans 21.1% Souther Italy 9.1% Eastern Europe 2.3% Except only the Greece subgroup is high confidence, Albania does not appear at all and Bulgaria and Romania at medium confidence among the subgroups.

According to HIrisPlex-S my eye color is grey. I can guarantee you they are not grey. Now my father had grey blue eyes and my sister light blue. So there is grey there somewhere in my genetics but it is obviously more complicated, something like there are genes that say that my eye color but...

Mine has been updated to U5a1b1d1

Sources please.

Could you point us to precisely where the "Ancient Greek" authors said what you insist they said and also to articles about Greek archaeological findings.

Jovialis, all this experimentation with different admixes points out to me that playing around with genetic models without a firm foundation in archaeology and history can lead, in the wrong hands, nationalistic agendas. Not that I am accusing you of that, far from it. Would IBD be more...

I still have no idea why we have a Columbus Day in the US. Columbus did not come anywhere near the US. At least the Vikings set foot in the actual continent and did it about 500 years before Columbus. Let the Genovese and the Spanish claim him but the US, why?

A greek Pontian song sang by Edem Ekiz, a Turkish Pontian:

Another tribute to the same village:

This is a tribute to the village of Santa also known as Dumanli in the Pontus close to Trabzon, sang in both Turkish and Pontian Greek: