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Max Planck linguist Rasmus Bjørn posted this image as a working hypothesis for the origin of the "Balkanic IE" group, which he later in the thread suggests should be renamed "Pontic IE" instead. Link:

"Ancient DNA reveals the origins of the Albanians" Big new paper. Think it should have a dedicated thread. LINK: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.05.543790v1 Conclusions: "However, in agreement with linguistic studies, we find that Albanians likely descend from a surviving...

I think this is possibly the best candidate for the Dardanian people and language. Some Serbian archaeologists are trying to claim it as a "Daco-Mysian", but the territory is too much in the heart of the Dardanian territory, all the way to the Drin, and explains many things perfectly. Dardanians...

Here are maps of E-V13 and which branches are where in Albanians. If we can have similar maps from other regions, I think we would have a clearer picture of the movements.

"We show that Armenians have indeed remained unadmixed through the Neolithic and at least until the first part of the Bronze Age, and fail to find any support for historical suggestions by Herodotus of an input from the Balkans. However, we do detect a genetic input of Sardinian-like ancestry...

According to N.G.L Hammond, in the Late Bronze Age, there appears a specific culture that seems to have invaded North Epirus, Pelagonia, Western Macedonia, and the Durr?s and Ohrid regions of Albania where we later see Albanopolis. Many of these sites are near where "Brygians" are later...

The Minotaur, who devoured youths and demanded them as tribute has been connected by some with Moloch, who also required child sacrifice. The myth of the Minoatur being defeated can possibly be a folk memory of the indo-europeanisation of Crete. The conquest of the J2a Minoan child...

I was reading this paper by Vaclar Blazek and it claims that the Indo-European laryngeals have a genetic relation to Afro-Asiatic. Example: Full link: https://www.academia.edu/38388357/AAIElaryngeals_JLR2011.pdf

"~30% of ancient Roman samples (0-400 AD) from Viminacium , and ~25% of Roman/Early Medieval samples (300-700 AD) from Timacum Minus are E-V13." (from user pribislav) Apparantly a new Reich lab paper is coming finally on the Balkans, and high EV13 is showing up. "Viminacium or Viminatium...

It is out: Ancient Rome: A genetic crossroads of Europe and the Mediterranean AbstractAncient Rome was the capital of an empire of ~70 million inhabitants, but little is known about the genetics of ancient Romans. Here we present 127 genomes from 29 archaeological sites in and around Rome...

"Tombs of the family of Alexander the Great finally giving up their secrets" Quite cryptic. But some revealing things in this article. Greece apparantly has so far not allowed DNA testing of the most important bones. Some excerpts: " The ages of the deceased in Tomb II were determined from...

We are already aware of Messapics and such. But what about the Illyrians that, according to Leonard Robert Palmer, assimilated into the east italics and oscans. He even says something interesting about Illyrian invasion possibly pushing the Latins out of their settlements in Po Basin into...

Maciamos's position seems to be that it could have been brought by Mycaneans and also Dorians from Central Europe: "The first Indo-European migration to Greece was that of the Mycenaeans from c. 1650 BCE. The Dorians from Central Europe followed from c. 1200 BCE. Both could have brought...

Here is Kosovo Albanian Geg? example from talkshow:

LINK: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-47673357/kosovo-war-the-conflict-that-won-t-go-away

The Arrival of Steppe & Iranian Related Ancestry in Islands of West Mediterranean Abstract A series of studies have documented how Steppe pastoralist-related ancestry reached central Europe by at least 2500 BCE, while Iranian farmer-related ancestry was present in Aegean Europe by at least...

Today marks 11 years since Kosovo declared independence. Just last week Dua Lipa, from my city of Prishtina, was the first Albanian to win a Grammy (two actually). This is just the beginning of many successes to come, we aren't going anywhere :cool-v: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt_BhcHhEgB/

Yugoslavian and Serbian deal with Hitler to annex Thessaloniki: "In 1941, Yugoslavia and Hitler’s Germany concluded a short-lived treaty of alliance which on Belgrade´s insistence included a secret clause: Yugoslavia wanted to annex Thessaloniki, something especially the Serbian generals in the...

Very interesting, had a lot of stuff I never knew about before in this video.

Saw this video, found it to be a good intro to some basics.