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I find it amazing too. Haplogroups rise and fall and some spread like a wildfire even without population replacement. Like a virus. Well, give it couple of thousand of years.The most interesting for me is not origin of the haplogroup I2a in Balkans per se, but the cause of presence its young branch which has TMRCA estimated as about 2500 years ago. One man has so much descendants in straight male lineage. Young clade of haplogroup I2 occurs in quite large amounts (about 20% of population) in some parts of Ukraine and Belarus. Why?
It shows open for me.If the poll was open, I'd vote for the Slavs. I believe that they brought I2 to the Balkans, though I try to leave the door open to other theories (as we learn more). One reason I vote for the Slavs bringing I2 to the Balkans is that it's in low numbers in Italy and Sicily, a place settled by Greeks. I believe that if indeed Greeks contributed haplogroups E and J2 to Italy, and I2 was in the Balkans in pre-Slavic times, we'd see more I2 in Italy. Another reason is that I2 is low in places like Crete and Cyprus.
This is a description of the early Slavs, no disrespect to R1a people, but these traits of are associated with i2a-din majority populations, what do you think ?
Haplogroups has nothing to do with traits.
But why there is so much I2-Din in Belarus and Russia? Theory about Slavic origin of I2-Din (which is only about 2500 years old, but is really popular in many European countries) looks more probable than the theory about Goths.
It is more probable that R1a is the most characteristic haplogroup of Slavs, not I2-Din, which may have non-Slavic origin (such as Dacian, as mentioned in the post above).
Thats a possibility.
But you d mean slavic linguistically and not purely genetically. correct?
I looked at your theory and eliminated the y-dna of the "slavs" and looked at northern croatia, slovenia and pannonian areas and was left with this
R1b (U-106 ) = 15% to 23% .........could be from the austrians or a celtic branch
I1 = 9% to 10% ..............Old german marker
E1b1b = 3%
J2 = 3%
G2a = 3%
I2b = 2%
J1 = 1%
Total = less than 50 % ..........remainder was R1a1a at 37% , remainder was I2a-din
So, to conclude , it seems doubtful that I2a-din was brought to the balkans by the slavs ( unless R1a1a is not purely slavic and this was illyrian )
And who estimated this TMRCA,who is him,is he reliable? Send a scientific paper claiming that,can you?send a scientific paper that this haplogroup wasn't on the Balkans 2600 <---> 1950 years ago and is agreed among scholars? as for people like Ken Nordvedt or similar branch like Klyosov if we take to literate everything they say,then.... we can go in another field.Illyrians or Dacians or Slavs or any other theory should in my opinion attempt to explain its recent TMRCA which is between 2600 <---> 1950 years ago with a 95% accuracy according to https://www.yfull.com/tree/I2/, any historic peoples before this time frame are excluded.
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