Absolutely.
The data is clear. I don't see the point of arguing about it.
The way to figure out what the Thracians were like is by testing the samples in Thracian tombs, from the Thracian period, buried with and by the funeral rituals of the Thracians.
You don't start out by just "stating" what you think the Thracians should have been like. They seem to have been formed from the addition of some steppe ancestry to the typical Late Neolithic farmer population of the Balkans.
The Slavs are from a much later period.
I'm not sure what you mean but the data isn't clear at all and is showing you what I'm telling you but whatever
The sample found in Bulgaria isn't closer to Albanians , it's more Southern than most Albanians while the sample found in Dalmatia is more Western. I am not disputing that it is more western but this doesn't make the sample from Bulgaria closer or East Balkan samples closer. The data shows the sample from Dalmatia is still closer to Albanians , Bulgarians and Macedonians and they also carried typical Albanian markers in those areas. All Bronze Age samples found in West Balkans carried typical Albanian markers. J2b2 L283 especially.
The samples from Dalmatia are closer this is why it has a higher similarity on K36 compared to the one from Bulgaria , it is also getting Kosovar and Albanian on calculators much closer than that sample from Bulgaria so not sure what you mean that the data is clear .... The sample from Bulgaria is only closer to some really Southern shifted Albanians and some Greeks and South Italians.
Also most East Balkan samples were nothing like Albanians either , Bronze Age samples found in Bulgaria were plotting with Austrians and North East Europeans. Totally contradicts what this guy is saying that East Balkan samples were closer. He is just using that Iron Age to reach to such a conclusion.
While the Bronze Age samples in west Balkans that have been found are closer to Albanians , Bulgarians, Macedonians etc than the Bronze Age samples found in East Balkans , they also carried typical Albanian markers like J2b2 L283 , R1bz2103 as I said.
You can just take a look at the calculator results I posted to see that I am right ,
There was another Late Bronze Age sample found in Montenegro that was also closer to Albanians, Bulgarians etc and even much closer than this which was called Jaz1
The plotting of Albanians depends a lot, there are Albanians that plot where those Bulgarians plot .... but you can see this Bronze Age Montenigrin is also closer than that Iron Age found in East Balkans , it also closer than the Bronze Age samples found in East Balkans ... Its closer to Greeks even ... its also EASTERN SHIFTED as you can see and not Western
https://www.researchgate.net/public...me_series_from_coastal_and_hinterland_Croatia
Pretty much all Bronze Age samples found in West Balkans are closer to Albanians , Greeks , Bulgarians , Macedonians than Bonze Age samples found in East Balkans ....
I cannot see how ancient East Balkanites were closer to us , he just used one Iron Age sample from Bulgaria to compare to West Balkan samples yet ignores those other Bronze Age samples in East Balkans that werent as close .... and even this Iron Age isnt close either ... you cant just lump all people of the Balkan together either ... Alao most of our ydna markers derive from Late bronze Age West balkan samples.
The data is clear here and its saying what I am saying . Also Im not saying I think what Thracians were like . There were actual Thracian samples found that plotted with Tuscans and not Neolithic or Bronze Age or Iron Age. They were later deleted.
This guy reaches to conclusion claiming Ancient East Balkan people were closer to us than West Balkan based on one Iron Age sample when the data shows something totally different when you compare all samples together and also Ydna markers its obvious West Balkan samples are closer... he also used samples to compare that were at different time frames such as Iron Age vs Bronze Age which is wrong,