Yeah, its ungrateful to yet give any conclusions but i might try. This GD is just relative distance calculated by some formula according to shared DNA. Therefore GD 5 does not have to be same distance on mytrueancestry and on Gedmatch. However there is quite a few modal Italian groups in mytrueancestry and i checked them all yesterday and it seems that North_Italian group really shows somewhat close distance to 1600 BCE Illyrian sample. Here is results as they stand now on mytrueanItaliabs
By my opinion we need proper Illyrian study where at least 10 ancient bones will be tested from various regions to have better picture.
True Illyrians were anywhere from king Bardyllis to king Gentius. I would even consider Roman and Byzantine Illyrians from Illyrian native lands as real Illyrians also.
I just cant accept 1600 BCE sample as real Illyrian lol. He was most likely Indo-European, or rather indo-europicised by most likely R1b proto-IE.
Furthermore its clear that whatever he was, ancient Indo-European or already developed Illyrian. They conquered entire Italian Peninsula and much further from direction of Dalmatia, which was naturally reached by Indo-Europens earlier then Italy, there we also find 700 BCE Etruscan sample which is same branch under J2-L283 as this sample therefore of same origin and his direct expansion as Etruscian is 1000 years younger.
Therefore its nothing strange why North Italians might be a bit closer to this sample then Albanians. I think but also according to history Illyrians were more prone to Greeks and influenced and mixed with ancient Greeks much more then with Italics. Therefore its possible that their autosomal genetic shifted and combined with Helenic but also with native Pelasgian elements which played important role in creating Greek and Illyrian ethnos.
And that is why Albanians are a bit closer to Greeks then to Italians.
I am pretty confident that if we would test Illyrians from time of Bardyllis and Gentius that Albanians will be closest to them. Just as if we would test Constantine the Great bones he would be closest to Albanians, as his father was Illyrian and mother Greek.
This 1600 BCE Dalmatian sample is simply Indo-European which by mixing and intermixing with locals and out of there later Illyrians, Greeks, and Italic tribes development from.
Open for debate
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