How did I2a-Din get to the Balkans?

How did I2a-Din get to the Balkans?


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Another thing need explaining ...............since the northern part of the adriatic sea did not exist and Italy and the balkans where joined as far south as modern Ancona, then why is there very little of this marker in the northern and central Italy if its a balkan marker?

I did not know this, less evidence for paleolithic continuity. One thing I do believe strongly is that the origin point for all the I2 subclades has to be Bavaria, at some point pre LGM there had to have been a population explosion there. Each and every one of the I2 clades is found very near there in high frequencies overlapping.
 
Another thing need explaining ...............since the northern part of the adriatic sea did not exist and Italy and the balkans where joined as far south as modern Ancona, then why is there very little of this marker in the northern and central Italy if its a balkan marker?

Isn't that a moot point, though, considering that I2a Din is less than 3,000 years old?
 
Where from did you get the data about the "exact" age?
 
I think if not Paleolithic continuity then the best explanation is that it was spread by the Gothic tribes. M26 being Visigoth, M423 being Ostrogoth. If you know the history of the Goths well you know that they migrated en masse from Far Eastern Europe south of the Danube to escape the Huns, eventually settling in Pannonia. This matches perfectly the hot spots of I2a1 in the Balkans (South of the Danube, in the Ostrogothic Kingdom we find the highest frequencies of I2a1). It also explains I2a1 in western Ukraine North of the Danube.

Visigoths were granted land in the Aquitaine, homeland of the Basques, which is where we see another hotspot of I2a1 in an otherwise relatively homogenous R1b group. The Visigoths also conquered Sardinia which explains the high frequency of I2a1 M26 in the Region with it being a relatively homogenous EEF group autosomally. The Goths were likely already drifted from the makeup of Lochsbur/Motala, contributed less WHG to the overall makeup of Sardinia.

We know that I2a1b existed in Sweden (Gotaland) in the Mesolithic (Motala), the history of the Goths states that they migrated out of Scandinavia through Eastern Europe and established a kingdom in Dacia (Now Western Ukraine/Romania north of the Danube). This matches the Distribution of I2a1 perfectly.
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Where from did you get the data about the "exact" age?

"Less than 3,000 years old" is hardly exact, but, to answer your question, everything I've read gives estimates between 1,900 and 3,000 years before present. It's recent origin is part of the puzzle, if I'm not mistaken.
 
I found this excellent post on another forum I wanted to bring here. Pretty compelling, especially considering the Mesolithic I2a1b finds in Motala. This user seems to be against a Scandinavian origin but I think the Lochsbur/Motala finds support it.

DNA associated with the Germanic Goths

Hi everyone,
in his recent spread map Dr. Ken Nordtvedt “himself” locates the start of the I2a2a Dinarics, from now on, namley around the middle course of the Vistula. Which is modern day Pomerania.

Estimated age: about 2500 years ago. see google: Tree and Map for Hg I pdf

Dr. Ken Nordtvedt mentioned, a while ago:
I2a2a Dinaric is just too young to not have been the result of a sudden expansion not much more than 2000 years ago.

It is well testified, that 2000 years ago, the Vistula area were still part of Germania. And the Wielbark culture, (mainly associated with the Goths, as well as the Rugii, Heruli, Gepids and other Germanic tribes) appeared also in the Vistula area about the same time period like the haplogroup I2a2a Dinaric. The Wielbark culture also had a sudden expansion out of the Vistula, not much more than 2000 years ago. Spreading out into the same directions like the I2a2a Dinarics in Ken Nordtvedts new spread map. Although his spread map is schematic, it shows unequivocally and absolutely clear a huge expansion from the north into the southeast of Europe and the Balkan area.

The first movments of the slavic people, appear centuries later. Moving slowly from the southeast to the northwest of Europe. (Peter Heather, “Barbarians and Empires”). But the Gothic people moved the other way around, exactly the same way like the I2a2a Dinarics in reference to the spread map from Dr. Ken Nordtvedt. Concerning I2a2a Dinaric, no ethnics of people, in that number, at that time and particular place, could come into question, other than the Germanics and Gothic tribes. This is the only plausible explanation. The Goths as well as the I2a2a Dinarics, demonstrating a huge sudden expansion at the same time, moving in the same directions into the southeast of Europe. I can not see anything slavic in this group, because of the relationship between I2a2a Dinarics, I2a2a Disles and I2a2a Isles in Britain.

“Familytreedna administration 2012:
Dear I2a Project members:
We are happy to announce that all known I2a men can be placed in one of these five subgroups:
I2a1 (also called I-M26, nicknamed "Sardinian")
I2a2 (also called I-M423, includes "Dinaric", "Disles" and "Isles")
I2a3 (now called I-L1286, includes "Alpine" group, and the I-L233 groups "Western" and "Western Isles")
I2a4 (also called I-L880, nicknamed "Northern France")
I2a5 (also called I-L1294, nicknamed "France")


At this point, let us not forget the relationship between I2a and I2b in general. Basically you can claim, that pretty much all I2a2a Dinaric members in todays eastern Europe are culturally slavic people! But, they display ethnically Gothic/Germanic roots. Most of recent published maps about the migration of Germanic tribes, show the movment of the Goths and how they left their traces mainly in eastern Europe. Most of modern historians and scientific up-to-date maps show that the Goths did not come from Scandinavia. That was a long time legende from Jordanes. But if they are not originated from Scandinavia, would explain the lack of I2a2a Dinarics in Scandinavia. This means the Goths do not necessarily need to have a lot of I1a. The Goths left their DNA mainly in eastern Europe as we can clearly retrace. And very little in Germany except Thuringa and Hesse. (“Heike Grahn-Hoek”)

Most people, until now, are still strongly convinced that haplogroup I2a2a Dinaric must be of slavic origin, because of it´s high presence in eastern Europe and the Balkan areas. It was a logical conclusion, in the first point of view. But now we can see on the new map, that the origin of I2a2a Dinaric is not the Balkan area. It is roughly what is todays Poland. That makes a big difference. Peter Heather the modern day historian and expert of the Goths wrote something very interesting in this connection in his last published book (Empires and Barbarians) concerning the slavic expansion:
The Slavs came primary from the southeast and moved slowly sometimes even step by step to the west. But not all Germanic settlements were left when the Slavs moved into the northwest in the 6th century. There were still many farmers and familys in their Germanic homelands. The slavic people took over and the Germanics, have been assimilated by the arrivng slavic population. And the slavic language became the dominat one in these areas. (The Crimea might be an exception. It seems there was a gothic dialect spoken until the 17th century.)
This absorption or assimilation-process happend amazingly peaceful. At least, at the begin of the slavic expansion. Without these Germanic settlers, the slavic empire could have never reached the size as it is, in that short period of time, says Heather.

The Goths and Rugii did not just come with an conquering army to eastern Europe. They came with their entire people. Thousends and thousends of woman and children, farmers and warriors spread all across eastern Europe and the Balkan area.

They marched off to Belarus, conquer and settle in Moldavia and Romania (Dacia). They settled and established a powerful state in Dacia. Sacking Greece (Athens, Sparta) and even Rhodes, Cyprus and Crete were targets of their attacks. Battles in Turkey (Adrianople). Occupation of Albania 489-535.
Also Settlements in western Hungary (Pannonia). 255 The Goths invade Macedonia. Taking over Moesia (Bulgaria) later known as the Moesian Goths. Ulfilias made the Gothic translation of the Bible for them. Raids in Belgrade, just to name a few well testyfied operations in the east. Bosnia was under the control of Theodoric the Great and his Ostrogothic Kingdom between 490-535. Dr. G. Rus, professor at the University of Liubljana, was taking detailed studys of Croatian and Bosnian origins. Professor Rus had proved that there were two large Gothic migrations into Bosnia and Croatia (Dalmatia). See the most recent map of germanic migrations below. The Goths and their Wielbark cousins were nearly all over eastern Europe. The Ostrogothic kingdom under Thoderic the Great was huge.

That´s why we still see most of I2a2a Dinarics in eastern Europe and the Balkan area today. Of course, we do have some I2a2a Dinaric members from italy as well. Check the Familytreedna I2a project.
(The sack of Rome, The Battle of Mons Lactarius near Naples, Ravenna the Ostogothic kingdom).
We also have members from Austria and Bavaria.They recently discovered the biggest Ostrogothic cemetery,more than 400 graves, ever found, at a place called Hemmaberg in Austria. The roman military brought a lot of gothic auxiliaries to the British isles, see Gloucester Goth. We do have I2a2 Dinaric members from the British Isles as well. Even the germanic Heruli (also Wielbark culture) came in two huge waves to the Aegean sea. The Rugii (Wielbark culture) have a strong conection to the Rus (Rugii-Rusyn-Rus-Ruthenen). After 900 AD all nordic people in eastern Europe were called Rus, not only swedish varangians. See and check: “Familytreedna Carpatho-Rusyn DNA project” there are many I2a2a Dinaric members north as well as south.

Most I2a2a Dinaric members, are from Pomerania and the Ukraine. It is not surprising. Pomerania was the homeland of the Goths and the Ukraine their biggest settlement after the great migration. But a great number of different tribes from all over eastern areas joint the Goths as well. And centuries later, when the Goths finally arrived in Spain, it was basically their name that arrived the iberian peninsula. In Spain the Goths ruled over a huge area but provide only a small Gothic leadership, with their capital in Toledo. Wich was wiped out by the arabian conquest in the 8th century.
But after all, a few Goths from their Pomerian homelands survived in Spain. We can genetically trace back the Goths even into today's iberian peninsula. You can see the I2a2a Dinarics in the Familytreedna New Mexico project. All members have spanish ancestry and interestingly, they all belong to I2a2a Dinaric “north”. None of them is Diaric south.

Familytreedna New Mexico project:
Torres Spain I2a2 13 24 16 12 13-15 11 13 13 13 11 30
Chavez Spain I2a2 13 24 16 12 13-16 11 13 13 13 11 30
Torres Spain I2a2 13 24 16 12 13-16 11 13 13 13 11 30
Gallegos Spain I2a2 13 24 16 12 13-16 11 13 13 13 11 30
Torres Spain I2a2 13 24 16 12 13-16 11 13 13 13 11 30
Torres Spain I2a2 13 24 16 12 13-16 11 13 13 13 11 30
Chavez Spain I2a2 13 24 16 12 13-16 11 13 13 13 11 30
Martinez Spain I2a2 13 24 16 12 13-16 11 13 13 13 11 30
Herrera Spain I2a2 13 24 16 12 13-16 11 13 13 13 11 30
Torrez Spain I2a2 13 24 16 12 13-16 11 13 13 13 11 30
Torres Spain I2a2 13 24 16 12 13-16 11 13 13 13 11 30
Chavez Spain I2a2 13 24 16 13 13-16 11 13 13 13 11 30

The Goths had certainly more Y-DNA haplogroups then just I2a2a Dinaric, (likely R1a??? We dont´t know yet). But I2a2a Dinaric is the most obvious of all,
matching the Gothic people. So far, this haplogroup is the only comprehensible one. The only one striking so clear, because of the young estimated age.
We see enough evidence for a very strong connection between the Wielbark and Chernyakhov cultures (Goths, Rugii etc.) and the haplogroup I2a2a Dinaric.

Here is some mtdna from the Wilbark culture. (Unfortunately Y-DNA is very fragile and does not last very long).

Juras 2012:
Wielbark Poland Kowalewko 0-300 AD H5 7028C, 16304C
Wielbark Poland Kowalewko 0-300 AD H 7028C, CRS
Wielbark Poland Kowalewko 0-300 AD W 2 samples 8251A, 16223T, 16292T
Wielbark Poland Kowalewko 0-300 AD W 8251A, 16192T, 16223T, 16292T
Wielbark Poland Kowalewko 0-300 AD U5b 7768G 16192T, 16270T
Wielbark Poland Kowalewko 0-300 AD U3 12308G, 14139G, 16343G
Wielbark Poland Rogowo 100-200 AD H 5 7028C, CRS
Wielbark Poland Rogowo 100-200 AD H 7028C, 16093C, 16129A, 16316G
Wielbark Poland Rogowo 100-200 AD H5 7028C, 16153A, 16304C,
Wielbark Poland Rogowo 100-200 AD H 2 samples of 7028C, 16183C, 16189C
Wielbark Poland Rogowo 100-200 AD H 7028C, 16129A
Wielbark Poland Rogowo 100-200 AD J2a 10398G 16069T, 16126C, 16145A, 16231C, 16261T, 16299G
Wielbark Poland Rogowo 100-200 AD T2b 16126C, 16294T, 16296T, 16304C

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I think if not Paleolithic continuity then the best explanation is that it was spread by the Gothic tribes. M26 being Visigoth, M423 being Ostrogoth. If you know the history of the Goths well you know that they migrated en masse from Far Eastern Europe south of the Danube to escape the Huns, eventually settling in Pannonia. This matches perfectly the hot spots of I2a1 in the Balkans (South of the Danube, in the Ostrogothic Kingdom we find the highest frequencies of I2a1). It also explains I2a1 in western Ukraine North of the Danube.

The temporal aspect is missing from your analysis here. Why should we think that the Visigoths and Ostrogoths did not share subclades that split about 20,000 years ago? Surely the division between Visigoths and Ostrogoths is not so old.

We know that I2a1b existed in Sweden (Gotaland) in the Mesolithic (Motala), the history of the Goths states that they migrated out of Scandinavia through Eastern Europe and established a kingdom in Dacia (Now Western Ukraine/Romania north of the Danube). This matches the Distribution of I2a1 perfectly.

Again, the temporal aspect makes no sense here. The Motala3/12 samples were on the M423 branch of I2, but since they were not apparently on a modern branch, they could have been nearly 20,000 years removed (or to take an average, probably about 15,000 years removed) from the modern branches. So what could they possibly have to say about an expansion that happened less that 3,000 years ago? At most, I see them informing us that I2a1b is a broadly Northern European clade... but that's no more evidence for the Goths than it is for the Slavs in the particular case of I2a-Din.

Dr. Ken Nordtvedt mentioned, a while ago:
I2a2a Dinaric is just too young to not have been the result of a sudden expansion not much more than 2000 years ago.

It is well testified, that 2000 years ago, the Vistula area were still part of Germania. And the Wielbark culture, (mainly associated with the Goths, as well as the Rugii, Heruli, Gepids and other Germanic tribes) appeared also in the Vistula area about the same time period like the haplogroup I2a2a Dinaric. The Wielbark culture also had a sudden expansion out of the Vistula, not much more than 2000 years ago... The first movments of the slavic people, appear centuries later.

This is an overinterpretation of Nordtvedt's "not much more than 2000 years ago" comment. Sure, the Slavic expansions were more recent than that, but it's also true that they were not more than 2000 years ago. The 2000 years ago figure is from a rough estimate of the age of I2a-Din, which is our limiting factor in the spread of I2a-Din, of course. Naturally, populations can have an age of greater than 0 for a given haplogroup they carry immediately before an expansion.

Moving slowly from the southeast to the northwest of Europe. (Peter Heather, “Barbarians and Empires”). But the Gothic people moved the other way around, exactly the same way like the I2a2a Dinarics in reference to the spread map from Dr. Ken Nordtvedt. Concerning I2a2a Dinaric, no ethnics of people, in that number, at that time and particular place, could come into question, other than the Germanics and Gothic tribes. This is the only plausible explanation. The Goths as well as the I2a2a Dinarics, demonstrating a huge sudden expansion at the same time, moving in the same directions into the southeast of Europe.

First of all, it's nonsensical to use Nordtvedt's schematic with no temporal reference when we have good diversity analyses of I2a-Din which look closely at outliers and hotspots. Secondly, a strictly SE->NW migration of Slavs is a minority view, to put it charitably.

I can not see anything slavic in this group, because of the relationship between I2a2a Dinarics, I2a2a Disles and I2a2a Isles in Britain.

What do 6,000 to 10,000 years-removed cousin clades to I2a-Din have to do with whether or not I2a-Din is Slavic? Is that seriously when we're dating the Slavic ethnogenesis?

Most I2a2a Dinaric members, are from Pomerania and the Ukraine.

Uh, no. Ukraine has a lot of diversity and pretty high frequency, but Pomerania? Huh?
 
I've done a lot of reading today and I have some studies/maps/historical references I can post as reference material to all of this but I'll give a brief overview until I get time to write it up properly.

1. I2a1a & I2a1b both originate in Sweden 10-15k years ago, L621(M423) and M26 originate sometime later.

2. In accordance with Gothic legend there is a great migration from Sweden sometime prior to 750 B.C. We then see a founder effect in 3 of the easternmost Germanic Tribes.

3. M26 Settles in Northern Germany and later becomes the tribe to be known as the Vandals.

4. In accordance with Gothic legend L621 gradually migrates south settling finally in Western Ukraine.

5. The Vandals invade the roman empire and establish their kingdom. Vandals are responsible for the M26 found everywhere in their kingdom, Iberia, Sardinia, North Africa ect.

6. The Goths migrate en masse south of the Danube to escape the invading Huns. Leaving their lands North of the Danube but not entirely. Spreading to all Balkan countries south of the Danube. Settling in Pannonia/Dalmatia south of the Danube in accordance with the Ostrogothic Kingdom.

7. Visigoths spread L621 to Iberia, not a lot found there but it has been found. Their impact significantly less than the Vandals.
 
Would that mean that Balkan clade of I2 are mosly Slavicized Ostrogoths?

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Correlation between I2a1b and Slavic populations in the Balkans is very high.
Gothic language can't be found in the Balkans, not even in traces.

I2a1b has been the most numerous haplogroup in the Balkans for centuries. If it is of Gothic origin, how come several Paleo-Balkan languages have survived Slavic invasion but Gothic was clinically swept away?

The way I see it there are strong arguments against every theory which explains I2a1b origin in the Balkans, except the theory of Slavic expansion.
So maybe someone should try to tell us, what is wrong about the Slavic theory? WHY NOT SLAVS?
 
Correlation between I2a1b and Slavic populations in the Balkans is very high.
Gothic language can't be found in the Balkans, not even in traces.

I2a1b has been the most numerous haplogroup in the Balkans for centuries. If it is of Gothic origin, how come several Paleo-Balkan languages have survived Slavic invasion but Gothic was clinically swept away?

The way I see it there are strong arguments against every theory which explains I2a1b origin in the Balkans, except the theory of Slavic expansion.
So maybe someone should try to tell us, what is wrong about the Slavic theory? WHY NOT SLAVS?

same way as illyrian language is missing, celt language in the alps, venetic language in Italy, Raetic language in the alp, trojan language in anatolia etc etc ...........I do not see your point!

I can say, in reverse to your statement.............if a language exist today in an area, then these people are not the original ancient people of that area
 
same way as illyrian language is missing, celt language in the alps, venetic language in Italy, Raetic language in the alp, trojan language in anatolia etc etc ...........I do not see your point!

There is a big difference. Today there are significant leftovers in those same regions, from the most of the languages you have written above.
And as I have written, Gothic leftovers don't exist in the Balkans, not even as a trace.

And again correlation between I2a1b and Slavic populations is huge.

So, please write, WHY NOT SLAVS?
 
Correlation between I2a1b and Slavic populations in the Balkans is very high.
Gothic language can't be found in the Balkans, not even in traces.

I2a1b has been the most numerous haplogroup in the Balkans for centuries. If it is of Gothic origin, how come several Paleo-Balkan languages have survived Slavic invasion but Gothic was clinically swept away?

The way I see it there are strong arguments against every theory which explains I2a1b origin in the Balkans, except the theory of Slavic expansion.
So maybe someone should try to tell us, what is wrong about the Slavic theory? WHY NOT SLAVS?
Exactly, even the age of I2a-Dinaric goes in hand with age of Slavic expansion.
 
Perhaps if we spent 5 minutes researching an opinion before posting it on this board the level of discussion would be a little better.

since it seems LeBrok et all is incapable of using google/wikipedia I will provide you the text from the Gothic Language page here

Gothic is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from the Codex Argenteus, a 6th-century copy of a 4th-century Bible translation, and is the only East Germanic language with a sizable text corpus. All others, including Burgundian and Vandalic, are known, if at all, only from proper names that survived in historical accounts, and from loanwords in other languages such as Portuguese, Spanish and French.
As a Germanic language, Gothic is a part of the Indo-European language family. It is the earliest Germanic language that is attested in any sizable texts, but lacks any modern descendants. The oldest documents in Gothic date back to the 4th century. The language was in decline by the mid-6th century, due, in part, to the military defeat of the Goths at the hands of the Franks, the elimination of the Goths in Italy, and geographic isolation (in Spain the Gothic language lost its last and probably already declining function as a church language when the Visigoths converted to Catholicism in 589).[2] The language survived as a domestic language in the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal) as late as the 8th century, and in the lower Danube area and in isolated mountain regions in Crimea apparently as late as the early 9th century. Gothic-seeming terms found in later (post-9th century) manuscripts may not belong to the same language.

The existence of such early attested corpora makes it a language of considerable interest in comparative linguistics.


[h=2]Influence[/h] The reconstructed Proto-Slavic language features several apparent borrowed words from East Germanic (presumably Gothic).[12]
 
"And again correlation between I2a1b and Slavic populations is huge"
What do you mean?
 
"And again correlation between I2a1b and Slavic populations is huge"
What do you mean?

In the Balkans, all nationalities which have more than 16% I2a1b use Slavic language.
And opposite from that, all that have less than 16% are not Slavic (In the Balkans).
 
In the Balkans, all nationalities which have more than 16% I2a1b use Slavic language.
And opposite from that, all that have less than 16% are not Slavic (In the Balkans).

Well Romania has more than 16% I2a1b and does not use a Slavic language.
Besides,South Slavic languages are not that closed to Eastern Slavic ,neither to West Slavic,for example,highest mutual intelligibility between a South Slavic language and an Eastern Slavic ,is between Bulgarian and Russian,about 75% common words.
I know that between Romanian and French there is 75% mutual intelligibility and I can not understand French,unless I learn it.
So I do not think you can treat Slavic speakers as a common ethnic people,for example Bulgarian folklore and so on is not closed to Russian folklore.
Russians do not have I2ab1 at high percentages,in lots of region.Same with Belarus.
I do not say that is not possible that some Slavic speakers tribes had some significant percentage of I2a1b,but that does not mean that "Slavs brought I2a1b in Balkans".
 

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