It wasn't directed to you, but towards certain highbrow'ers who constantly obsess over what I do and write on various platforms (by their own admission).
I assume that the 'east med' coinage refers to similarity to Dodecanesians and Cretans, among other closely plotting groups, on their PCAs.
The sad story (for them) is that those Dodecanesian/Cretan "references" do not actually exist anymore in reality (just like Greek_Macedonia) but rather as fringe diaspora entities and imaginary surviving populations of antiquity, and that is due to historical processes and modern intra-regional mobility and inter-mixing of populations within the country.
The Aegean islands were repopulated several times during the Medieval, for Crete specifically we have extensive historical records of how the native population of the time (Saracens and "Greeks" as in Pagans) was almost entirely wiped out (in 960 A.D.) by the Nicephoros Phocas reconquista, down to the last woman and child, and the island repopulated extensively with Pontics, Laz, Armenians, Anatolians, converted Saracen defenders and Balkan Varangian Rus. I dare the highbrow gang to try and challenge the validity of this historical accord.
As such, the Cretans being 'east med' and all, and plotting where they do, is due to the sum of their parts on a PCA and not because they represent an ancestral Med population like they are portrayed.
As for g25, here are my co-ordinates,
eptr_scaled,0.106994,0.139128,-0.017348,-0.031008,0.003077,-0.015618,0.004935,0.002308,-0.022907,0.005103,0.003085,0.002698,-0.011447,0.011973,-0.015472,-0.005701,0.007041,0.00114,0.002514,-0.005002,-0.003369,0.002473,-0.002218,0.003735,-0.003712
And my plot, for those who can't be bothered:
Distance to: | eptr_scaled |
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0.03128242 | Greek_Crete |
0.03565463 | Greek_Izmir |
0.03690988 | Greek_South_Tsakonia |
0.03728822 | Greek_Deep_Mani |
0.03749018 | Greek_Kos |
0.03863699 | Greek_North_Tsakonia |
0.04089436 | Greek_Dodecanese |
0.04094249 | Italian_Basilicata |
0.04111512 | Greek_East_Taygetos |
0.04114372 | Greek_Laconia |
0.04187206 | Italian_Apulia |
0.04252525 | Greek_Elis |
0.04258062 | Italian_Molise |
0.04277087 | Greek_Central_Anatolia |
0.04298084 | Italian_Calabria |
0.04345173 | Italian_Campania |
0.04364641 | Ashkenazi_Lithuania |
0.04385056 | Greek_Argolis |
0.04391181 | Ashkenazi_Russia |
0.04395004 | Greek_Arcadia |
0.04413027 | Greek_Messenia |
0.04414173 | Ashkenazi_Belarussia |
0.04444838 | Greek_Corinthia |
0.04489849 | Greek_Peloponnese |
0.04523358 | Greek_West_Taygetos |
W/o anyone knowing about the sum of my different parental/maternal parts (that have nothing to do with either the East Med or the results listed) what conclusion can be reached? The same one with the Cretans, and/or the Dodecannese?
What if my bones are dug up and tested 300-400 years from now, what would be the future highbrow enthusiast's profession (who constantly neglects all historical and ethnographic data)? That the Levantine 'East Med' invaded the north of Greece in the late 20th/early 21st century?
Are we being serious right now?