Were I2a Slavs part of the same tribe?

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So I mean, most West/East Slavs are different to South Slavs. Wondering why that is?

I have read that there was a tribe called the Sclavenians which conquered and ravaged the whole of the Balkans peninsula. Could they just have been dominant I2a? Why is there this big genetic difference between north/south? I mean I'm aware Slavs aren't a "race" rather a culture/language. But who were the I2a Slavs before Slavs existed? Were they Dacians? The Balkan Slavs have many similar haplogroups to Romanians, moreso than to Russians and Poles.

I've also heard crazy theories about I2 coming from Celts/Gauls, this sounds wild to me, any credence to it?

Or, if im understanding things about the haplogroup correctly, were the I2a Slavs just a minor tribe that had a population explosion and went south?
 

So I mean, most West/East Slavs are different to South Slavs. Wondering why that is?

How concretely they are different?

I have read that there was a tribe called the Sclavenians which conquered and ravaged the whole of the Balkans peninsula.

Sclavenians are mentioned in historical records but there were more tribes among them, same as Illyrians whose name covered all tribes in the Illyrian area.

Could they just have been dominant I2a?

If we take Croats as example, Slavic genetics of Croatians are R1a and I2a branches, possible others haplotypes as well, but this is the main one.

Croats speak Slavic Indo-European language but I2a peoples originally are not Indo-Europeans, for this reason I2a people had to learn Slavic language in the area where they were mixed with Slavs and Indo-Europeans. For now and based on living genetics I2a peoples are mixed with R1a peoples somewhere in the area of southern Poland and south-western Ukraine ie. that part of Carpathians.

For now, according to history records in that area White Croats are mentioned, possibly some other tribes but one of the earliest ones are White Croats.

Why is there this big genetic difference between north/south?

A lot of time has passed since migration period and normally some other genetics is mixed in the area of Carpatians, but in the Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians little less in Poles etc.. there are still plenty peoples with I2a branches.

I mean I'm aware Slavs aren't a "race" rather a culture/language. But who were the I2a Slavs before Slavs existed?

They were not Slavs. If we follow this map original R1a Slavs has source somewhere in central Ukraina and from there they migrate to Poland and I2a peoples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Proto-Slavic#/media/File:Balto-Slavic_lng.png


The same or similar talk and live genetics.

https://cache.eupedia.com/images/content/R1a_migration_map.jpg



Were they Dacians? The Balkan Slavs have many similar haplogroups to Romanians, moreso than to Russians and Poles.

Romanians has I2a branches with mutation I-Y3120 and I-S17250 which means that ancestors of I2a Croats and Romanians are same or have source in same area. Whether these(Romanian I2a) are some older or younger migration we'll know more in the future and then we will be able to say a little more.

I've also heard crazy theories about I2 coming from Celts/Gauls, this sounds wild to me, any credence to it?

As far as I know older I2a branches coming from direction of Luxembourg, northeastern France to Poland.

Or, if im understanding things about the haplogroup correctly, were the I2a Slavs just a minor tribe that had a population explosion and went south?

It could be because a good part of migration to the Balkan begins from a small area where I2a has its epicenter and it would be White Croatia, besides these Croats and others Slavs coming with their genetics and with regard to some other older I2a branches that exist in the Greece they probably go to the Balkans before Croats and via eastern Carpathians, through Romania, Bulgaria to the Greece. There are also Slavs from other areas that have some other R1a branches which says that they do not come from White Croatia but from Ukraine, northeastern Poland, Russia etc.
 
There's no credible hypothesis. The ruler of the invading Magyars descended from the same I2a group, so it is likely that they were a succesful/expansive people situated somewhere in the marsh-steppe region. We can't say more than that.
 
There's no credible hypothesis. The ruler of the invading Magyars descended from the same I2a group, so it is likely that they were a succesful/expansive people situated somewhere in the marsh-steppe region. We can't say more than that.


Those Magyars were only confirmed positive for L621 and there are several clades separating CTS10228 from L621 that are over 6000 years apart. Whether or not some could be positive further downstream isn't certain. Most were predicted negative downstream though. For all we know those Magyars form a unknown branch under I-L621.

We can say that I2a1b-CTS10228 was participating in Proto-Slavic ethnogenesis thats for sure. Nearly 100 percent of people under CTS10228 are Slavs. Also, all confirmed CTS10228 samples(albeit from the middle ages only) were all heavily East-European admixed/"Polish-Like".
 
So I mean, most West/East Slavs are different to South Slavs. Wondering why that is?

I have read that there was a tribe called the Sclavenians which conquered and ravaged the whole of the Balkans peninsula. Could they just have been dominant I2a? Why is there this big genetic difference between north/south? I mean I'm aware Slavs aren't a "race" rather a culture/language. But who were the I2a Slavs before Slavs existed? Were they Dacians? The Balkan Slavs have many similar haplogroups to Romanians, moreso than to Russians and Poles.

I've also heard crazy theories about I2 coming from Celts/Gauls, this sounds wild to me, any credence to it?

Or, if im understanding things about the haplogroup correctly, were the I2a Slavs just a minor tribe that had a population explosion and went south?

Since haplogroup in general is pre Indoeuropean they were part of almost every culture in Europe, Gauls are least likely since they seem to be R1b dominant, no one can give you definitive answer we don't have enough results. But everyone seems to forget something very important while talking about genes, especially about Din I2, the place where its most dominant is scarcely populated due to geography and was always area of emigration, there are probably less then 500 000 people living in Hercegovina region. And 10% of Russian population is over 14 000 000 people, more than 100% of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia. There are more I2 carriers in Russia then in the Balkans even if you are generous and include Romania and Hungary.
 
We need more ancient dna to determine. R1a was not found alongside i2a-din in the recent viminacium and mediaval serbia study

It is possible that i2a-din belonged to a group in central/south europe that was always cremating and only stopped from middle ages due to romans changing everyone's culture and slavic assimilations after that. A similar case for v13
 

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