Angela
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Sorry but aren't you the one always saying Albanians are not of Illyrian stock? Mainly due to BA Croatia western PCA.
I have always said that Albanians were NOT descended from Turks, but probably had more "Native" Balkan stock than any of the other Balkanites except for the Greeks, as indeed they do.
They have more Balkans Iron Age. Those are the only proximate samples we have.
What is clear is that Northern Italians are closer autosomally to Croatia Bronze Age than are Albanians. The genetics don't lie. Just run the samples and see the closest populations. It's not Albanians. That doesn't mean, for the umpteenth time, that Northern Italians are descended from them. We're just descended from similar people. How difficult can that be to understand?
Plus, who the hell said those are "Illyrian" samples? The "Illyrians" are actually attested much later, and we don't yet have Iron Age samples from their area. (The label Illyrians was first used by outsiders, in particular Ancient Greeks, at the beginning of the 8th century BC.) When we do have Iron Age samples from that area, we'll see how close, or distant, they are from Albanians. I personally hope they'll be close, just so our Albanian posters will stop with the paranoia.