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Now I am not going to take sides in the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis. What attracted my interest is a marvelous Palestinian Dabke dance group performing in Dearborn, Michigan: Enjoy!

August 17, 2023. Moderators please move it to a topic that's more appropriate. A link to the closing thread: https://anthrogenica.com/showthread.php?28716-Anthrogenica-Closure-Discussion-Thread

Living DNA updated my ancestry estimate: Europe (East) 67% East Balkans 60.8% West Russia 3.6% Pannonia 2.5% Europe (South) 32.9% Aegean 23.7% South Italy 9.2% Europe (East) 67% East Balkans 60.8% West Russia 3.6% Pannonia 2.5% Europe (South) 32.9% Aegean...

I was sent this lady's pics by a friend of mine that promised me that I would never guess her ethnicity. So I am asking for people's help. So here it goes: Sorry about the sideways pics. Just rotate them. They are right side up on my computer. Here are my guesses: The first one could be an...

I just received my updates from Living DNA and it flip flopped between Aegean and East Balkans.

...and Messi of course. Longtime time Barca fan, sad to see them sink that low but I guess it's time for the old guard to leave and for Barca to start its rebuilding. I would get rid of Busquets and Pique.

DNA.LAND, has anybody uploaded their raw files to them? Are the results strange or OK? Here are mine: Interesting with the Finnish admix. I keep seeing that in some of the other sites. FTDNA and MyHeritage also have it in their admixture but at lower percentages. Maybe the U5a1b on my...

Finally, Gilad spoke about the much-anticipated update to MyHeritage’s Ethnicity Estimate: Genetic Groups. This update will provide a much higher-resolution breakdown of DNA ethnicity — possibly, Gilad says, the highest-resolution on the market, with 2,000–3,000 geographic regions at first and...

People who suffer from a combination of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and obesity have a condition known as “metabolic syndrome”. This condition causes the blood vessels to stiffen. When the arteries are stiff or become blocked, there’s a reduced flow of oxygenated...

Fascinating read of the conversation with the head archaeologist of the Aigai, the ceremonial capital of the Macedonian kingdom. She's been at it for 40 years and according to her there is enough there for three or four lifetimes. This does not include the excavations at nearby Pella, the...

I feel like the Mediterranean colonies get all the glory. There were numerous Greek colonies in the Black Sea but they get shorted both historically and genetically. Here is a map of all the colonies, albeit in Greek around the Black Sea: I am thinking that it is more sexy to research the...

It has been fun comparing genetic distances to different ancient or modern samples or populations using different models (i.e Dodecad 12b, Eurogenes K13. But is it wrong? Instead of modeling yourself with the target sample using these different tools and ancient populations, why not compare raw...

It seems that Living DNA is updating everybody's results. Here are mine: Now they make sense. Usually the 29% of East Europe is on the East side of the Balkans but what the heck

Very interesting paper cataloging all the efforts by Romania, Greece and Bulgaria to appropriate the history and culture of the Ancient Thracians for their own ethnic purposes...

I am a Greek from the Evros prefecture. My grandparents came across the Evros (Maritsa) River from Eastern Thrace. I have taken an Ancestry DNA test and a LivingDNA test but additionally I have uploaded my results to FTDNA and MyHeritage sites. While the vast majority of the matches are with...

Mycenean tombs found in Plylos Points out to Pylos being much more important than it was thought: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-greece-mycenae-royal-tombs-discovered-pylos-odyssey-nestor-palace-a9251676.html

A band of Celts under the leadership of Leotarios and Leonorrios circa 278 BCE invaded through Thrace and settled in Central Anatolia in what became Galatia. The main tribes were they Testosages, the Trocmii and the Tolistobogii. ​I wonder if their genetic signal still persist or has died out.

I have not seen this article referenced before, but if it has, can one of the moderators delete it? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ahg.12328 The samples collected did not include any samples from the urban areas. They were all from rural areas with the samples collected only...

It was a blast. We rented a BMW 4 from SIXT and drove around. We spent 3 days in Rome then couple of days in Rocca di Mezzo where my wife's maternal grandfather came from, then to Rossano in Calabria, close to Terranova da Sibari where her grandmother came from and then we spent 3 days in Lecce...