"The Thracians," i.e. the Early and Middle Bronze Age populations are a fairly Nordic group (most, not all). Something like 50-90% yamna. There are various specimens from the Middle(Bronze) Ages that group with present-day Finns. I think there are also some corded pottery tribes. More than one. I.e. presumably there are several migrations from different cultures here - the first pre-Yamnian, the second classical Yamna, the third I think from two different groups of corded pottery. Each of the waves most likely spoke its own version of the Indo-European languages. At the height of the Bronze Age, in my opinion, there is another migration - from the so-called the Babino culture, which is the successor of the catacomb culture from Ukraine,; this is already in historical times, and it is possible that the catacomb culture (and the collapse and pressure of the proto-Iranians) led to the creation of the historical Greeks, Thracians and Armenians. I think that somewhere there we should also look for the Homeric Thracians, a sister group of the Mycenaean Greeks. Those from the Early Iron Age. is Svilengrad, Kap Andreevo, are very different, Yamna about 20%, large Anatolian component, Mesopotamian component. There is a discontinuity in the haplogroups as well, complete, and the appearance of a strange Baltic signal. In the Bronze Age, the groups were very heterogeneous, belonging to different migrations from the north in time and origin, mixed with a certain Balkan, Anatolian and Caucasian component, which was more or less local. But the steppe (pit and battle ax type) predominates among the brozn samples. In the Late Bronze Age these people "disappear". There is a pause. Perhaps part of the great crisis at the end of the Bronze Age, which swept many groups in Europe, the Near East and the Mediterranean, without the reasons being clear. it is impossible to say to what extent the populations have changed, too few samples, from a very diversified, probably, population. The "new" Thracians, of the Iron Age, however, resemble the Mycenaeans of the Bronze Age - but not in terms of haplogroups. Which of the above are the "true" Thracians? I have no idea. Tribes were like dogs and cats. I don't see how it is possible for them to have spoken the same language, they were never in the same community, to unify their language, for example, or to have some language changes that would lead to a common "Thracian" language. Surely, what we know - that there were linguistically distinct Thracian, Paeonian, Illyrian and Macedonian groups, as well as "Pelasgians" is a small section of the true linguistic diversity of the Balkans at that time, which will remain hidden from view. The reason for this diversity is in the above migrations. Childe believes that there was some common Greek body that included pre-Mycenaean Greeks, (the authors of Linear B), Mycenaeans (participants in the Trojan War), "Ionians" (which he considers a separate migration from Mycenaeans and pre-Mycenaeans), and Dorians. The diversity of Greek groups gives him reason to claim that the Balkans are saturated with a large Greek massif (all waves are Greek from the upper, occupied the Balkans from the middle to the south. The question is, where is the middle - on the ridge of an old mountain? on the Rhodopes? more to the south? But perhaps this Greek massif also included the Thracians, i.e. the Homeric people of status and with new masters. Otherwise, they were read by the Samothracians in the 90s, and only the Bulgarians did not understand that the Thracians from the Rhodopes spoke a dialect of the Greek language , Childi, etc. were right. But - only for the "Thracians", perhaps.
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