Check out Aspurg’s posts here as well as Anthrogenica (if you haven’t already). He has some interesting theories tying specific Illyrian tribes to specific lineages within L283. I’m not sure if there is a way to search for his posts, but they’re interesting to me. I don’t know much about the Illyrians except that any discussion centered around their ethnogenesis can be extremely informative about the Balkans, but can also go off the rails in a nanosecond as well. I’ve learned a great deal over the years from Aspurg’s and Trojet’s posts, among others, here at Eupedia.
The Rrenjet Project in fact has over 1,100 results thus farand around 800 of them are exclusively members only at Rrenjet and processed in companies FTDNA, YSEQ and Dantelabs. A similar database is also being put together of Mitochondrial lines in Albania, its only around 150 results thus far.
It seems that people are giving opinion on the origin of Albanians without basing their arguments on actual data.
Albanians have very good diversity of both E-v13, J2b2 and R1b-PF7563. It is clear based on the data that there is a continuation of bronze and IA male lines despite the fact that there is a strong genetic bottleneck that fits with the fall of the roman empire and slavic migration to the balkans.
There are now two projects from the Albanian archeologists in partnership with western counterparts on testing ancient remains from archeological sites in Albania. Preliminary results from one of these projects confirm this bronze age continuity for PF7563 and J2b2. Later this year or next year they will publish results.
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