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The Slavs in Greece at least in the early days lived in special enclaves, named Sclaviniai. They were kicked out of these areas I think around the 9th and 10th and moved to Anatolia. Conversely, Greeks from Southern Italy and Asia Minor were brought to the Peloponnese and Macedonia. The process...

Yep, just like the Persians had a million soldiers in Thermopylae according to Herodotus. I doubt there were 1 million people total in the rebelling territories. Take everything that the ancient authors say with a large bat of salt, even medieval authors.

No that's how you compute TRMCA if your subclade has a lot of mutations. There are subclades that don't mutate that often. Kinda throws the TRMCA calculations off kilter.

My Ydna is pretty static very shallow depth, high in the R1b hierarchy, how much new info has accumulated in my YDNA since 5000+years ago? Meanwhile new genetic info has accumulated from both the male and female ancestors over 250 generations. For example my mother's side of the family has a...

Northern Greek samples did carry high steppe, Mycenaean samples did not.

Only one medieval author mentioned a "raid" on Crete. The population movements by the Byzantines to repopulate Crete are not well documented as to their providence. The study on Cretan population genetics had a curious disagreement between IBD, PCA and ADMIXTURE. The disagreement was not...

While you're at it, we need samples from the countryside, from the small villages and settlements. I know that in my town they found an intact female skeleton from 500AD in somebody's garden. I wonder if they could extract some DNA from it. They probably forgot they have her.

One of these days we will have enough samples so that we can stop all these silly ultra nationalist theories.

Nope it does not but for us genetics freaks it deprives us from knowing exactly what happened to Athenian genetics.🤣

There was definitely a stop in that civilization after between 1200-800BC approximately. Whether that was due to conquest by the horde, raids by the sea people, climactic change, earthquakes or what have you, there definitely was a change. Whether it was accompanied by genetic change, we need...

Or there was no conquering just movement down the Balkans and the horde settled, got assimilated, intermarried and got Hellenized.

You know Pelops along with Atreus and Agamemnon are all mythical figures, right? AS far as what the rest of the Greeks spoke, your solution to them speaking Greek later on is that they got conquered by the Mycenaeans?

To be expected, since the Mycenaeans lived at the south end of mainland Greece with a cline of steppe admix as we go north.

@Jovialis have you or @Salento downloaded the files from this paper and incorporated it in the Expedia dataset?

Totally agree with you as far as admixture is concerned in large urban centers like Athens and Thessaloniki. They attract people from far and wide, traders and artisans, artists and entertainers, mercenaries and adventurers. That's why I like more testing in the small settlements and the...

I think the numbers are very exaggerated particularly in the earlier years. No way that 50% of American men were obese in the 70s. Maybe closer to 30% or even lower. I still want to know the methodology of this study. Is it from patients in hospitals? Truly random? People in the street?

Forget about all the 1%, it's pretty much crap. Anything over 5% is legit.

I recommend sticking to the main tourist attractions and places. If you go off the beaten path hire a guide/driver. I recommend the same for France and Spain. Younger people speak English but older ones, ehhhh.

Also please note that due to the large exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey you could have ended up with a lot of Greek & Balkan descent Muslims moving to central Anatolia. I have no data to support that, just a hypothesis.

Again, conclusions about the presence or not of EV-13 in Greece is based on very few samples. When people talk about Mycenaeans and making conclusions about the rest of Greece to me speaks of scientific close-mindedness. Let's wait for more samples from the different parts of Greece before we...