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According to the new study the Yamnaya people on the Balkans who had farmers admixture did not get it locally but rather from the Tripolye culture. Around that time (3500BC) the old Eneolithic cultures were extinct with obvious population hiatus of nearly 1000 years.

Although pure Yamnaya people are found on the Balkans during the Early Bronze age, for some reason their descendants did not survive. There was a new population hiatus around 2400BC and after that the influence is from 2 different direction. The South -Thrace, Macedonia/Albania were in the...

They are already on TheYTree: https://www.theytree.com/portal/index/samples?keyword=Stable%20population%20structure%20in%20Europe%20since%20the%20Iron%20Age

The very rare on the Balkans M26/L148 among Gorani is interesting and may have also Roman origin. I see on the YFULL tree a Serbian from Kosovo and there is also a Bulgarian Z113 (tested with SNP pack), who claims origin from Bossilegrad area. https://www.yfull.com/tree/I-Z113/

My impression is that the Serbian project Poreklo does not deny the Albanian origin of some Serbian haplogroups. This is supported by traditional genealogy, as the Serbs also lived in tribes and the origin is remembered. However I see a strong resistance by some Bulgarians to admit Albanian and...

I don't think Romaniotes in Greece are a pure isolated group. They have been diluted by the Sephardis, coming from Spain. By the way, R1b-DF27 is no way Slavic, but rather Iberian haplogroup. It came with the Sephardis, who have incorporated some of the locals. Thessaloniki and Istanbul were...

Yes, this study tested for M78* only, which may include M22 and M12(there are known case from 23andMe), less likely V65. This is 1.5%, not insignificant as this is around the percent of the whole haplogroup I2-M223 and T, for example.

The Aromanian Vlachs were isolated communities in the mountains subject to strong genetic drift, so may have completely different surviving haplogroups. As for the autosomal mix I bet all would be classified as 100% Balkanians as we are now at 23andME, for example.

Why are you screaming? Of course the Aromanians developed somewhat different culture than the other Romance speaking ethnicities on the Balkans, but they are a result of the same process - surviving local population. An where did it survived the most - in the South West Balkans. And yes, Sofia...

The Vlachs in the South West Balkans lived exactly where the local Roman population survived en masse. It may be true some population still lived in other areas, but it was maybe high in the mountains and away from main roads accessible on horseback. While in the South West Balkans some city...

The Vlachs(at least Aromanian) have no relation to the Roman legions. They originally lived where local population survived after the fall of the Danubian limes around 620AD. According to Florin Kurta and his maps where signs of life are found between 620 and 680(when the Bulgars came), this is...

There were several Bulgarians found E-L677, which is V22 on 23andMe. Recently there was a Bulgarian found E-L1250 by the haplogroup assignment from the FamilyFinder test. The Big Y is ordered and we will soon know where exactly he will fall. There is another person marked from Bulgaria there...

This is the haplogroup on the YFULL tree: https://www.yfull.com/tree/N-VL11/

There is a new study, which claims to have tested a real Rurikid and the haplogroup is definitely N1a! This is Dmitry Alexandrovich , the son of Alexander Nevski. There are further claims that sample origin of Gleb is not proven and this is just a random burial, hence the Slavic haplogoup. The...

The first Bessarabs were probably of Cuman origin, so haplogroup most likely some Q or R1a Z93. The Bessarabs from the study were just modern Romanians with that surname, no connection to the old rulers.

Well, I suspected it would come to that with this sample. It is true a small percentage of Balkan people have some Roma/Gypsy admixture, bu the vast majority have none at all. South Balkans also have the least steppe admixture of the Yamnaya type compared to other Slavic people. So how we relate...

There is something wrong with this Butkara_IA sample. Suddenly it appears as the closest ancient sample to most Bulgarians and Macedonians. He is even not a "pure" Ancient Greek or Thracian, who may have followed Alexander, but a mixture of Steppe and Indian. How about other Balkan people? Here...

A new study has just come out "The peopling of the last Green Sahara revealed by high-coverage resequencing of trans-Saharan patrilineages" https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-018-1393-5 It concentrates on several Y haplogroups common in Africa, from the Es on the M2...