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Greek Venetians are definitely still around. I know one from Tinos. Apparently there's many there.

On the right track. The Balkans was once one of the "refugia" (Italy and Iberia the others) during the last glacial maximum, and the "refugees" followed the ice to the Baltic area. (Italy-/Iberia-origin people settled more northwestern areas.) I contend that the remnants of these people (and...

The Slavic thing is way exaggerated, even for "South Slavs." It's akin to Arabic (and modern English) in that the language spread much farther than the original speakers. All these people on forums like this playing "find the Slav" are wasting their time. You'll never find them. It's not...

I remember reading someplace that you can get a hint of the T you were exposed to by looking at your fingers. Ring finger longer than index = more testosterone; index longer = less. Growing up in the US, I've lost most respect for current psychology. I like a lot of the older, "foundational"...

The Ghegs are/were Hallstatt derived. That's were I think this signal is coming from.

I think it more accurate to say that people in today's Albania were southern Italian-like until the Ghegs showed up.

Cavalli-Sforza, if I recall, also showed (in his well-known book) a sharp genetic change as one crosses into the Peloponnese from the Balkans.

Oh yeah. And I doubt the paper would out-and-out say moderns = ancients. It would probably be carefully worded and open to different interpretations. Sikeliote might have a stroke, but the usual not-so-Greeks, Balkaners, and others who inhabit these forums will quickly regroup (for the...

From the get-go I thought "Too good to be true" about DNA testing ancient Greeks. It wouldn't surprise me if the results are never revealed to the public and just allowed to quietly fade away from memory. There is definitely a reason, and I think it's quite the opposite: modern Greeks are just...

I'm Peloponnesian: Your Top 10 Archaeogenetic matches by Era...(Smaller numbers mean closer matches to you, up to 10 samples per era)Late Bronze Age 5. Bronze Age Szolad Hungary (1000 BC) ..... 7.918 - Top 99 % match vs all users Roman Age 4. [Hidden] - upgrade to Footman+ ..... 7.392...

Many Cretans say it's a Turkish diminutive. Are there any Turks out there that can help here? Does Turkish actually use such diminutive suffixes?

This jibes with the women in my life. I notice women seem to remember the facts and details, whereas men retain the overall patterns.

You're Gheg right? Aren't they originally from higher up in the NW Balkans (closer to northern Italy) and have remained isolated in the mountains for a long time?

Yeah, I doubt it's recent Italian ancestry. It's probably due to parts of Italy, Greece, and Albania retaining similar levels of DNA derived from one of the ancient migrations of people that passed through those areas, though I'm not sure exactly how K36 works.

I score more Italian that some Italians I've seen (21% if I remember right) and I'm Peloponnesian with some Arvanite ancestry. Tuscan is usually at or near the top on Oracle-type stuff, like a lot of Greeks I've seen.

It was *really* accurate for me. Put me in the Aegean but straight across from the village in Laconia my parents came from.