TaktikatEMalet
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How can we apply it to south illyrians when we have like 1 sample and that 1 sample is right next to the liburnian border? Also, wasnt even this furthest southern sample heavily mixed with celtic?It blows my mind when people say things like, "Well Northern Illyrians had Celtic shields and Gaul/Celt admixture, so they can't be true Illyrians"
But they don't apply that logic to Southern Illyrians, or any other group (every group has influences from neighbors)
Southern Illyrians had Macedonian/Dorian shields, and probably had more Southern shifted Greek-like admixture.. so they must not be true Illyrians..
If Northern Illyrians can't be true Illyrians because they were influenced by Celts, then Southern Illyrians can't be true Illyrians either because they were influenced by Greeks! How insane does that sound? As if the ancestors of Albanians can't be anything because they were influenced by other groups... like every other people in Europe... Are Greeks not true Greeks because they were influenced by Thracians and Illyrians?
Where does one draw the line haha. Every group was influenced by their neighbors. Are Northern Italians not true Italians because they have Celtic admixture? No, they are true Italians, only the Albanian must have pure, isolated ancestors!
Just remember that the true illyrians were below river revetka, once we get 3, 4, 5 samples below the region from 800BC-200BC we can say for sure the illyrians carried this and that line