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Modern Y DNA distributions don't correlate 1:1 with past admixtures because in the meantime you can have founder effects, further gene flow from neighbouring regions who are autosomally similar but might have a different Y structure, etc. On the Germanic question, one explanation could simply...

Can you cite a few of those texts other than the well-known excerpt from Juvenal's Satires? It's normal and expected that there would be different views on this issue in Ancient Rome, but Juvenal's piece is the only one I keep seeing. There's also this excerpt from Martial's Epigrams: XXX. TO...

It's cool that there are Hallstatt cultural influences in Attica but that doesn't mean anything about genetics because it's been known for a long time that Celts traded with Italians and Greeks. If they start finding samples with an Austria_IA or even Slovenia_IA autosomal profile in ancient...

Greco-Roman lineage of Anatolian origin.

I'm not even talking about ancient Greeks in this case. This J-L283 line seems like it was introduced to Celts from paleo-Balkan pops and to Germans by Celtic pops so that's 2 south->north movements right there. Same with G-L497, an east Alpine Chalcolithic lineage that made it to Iron Age...

All this talk about north to south "conquests" in the LBA and IA but somehow we're finding pure Germanics/NW Europeans (Hacs10, Hacs22, Anderten) from the migration period with an Iron Age southeast European lineage (J-Z1043). Strange.. I'm sure there's some fantastical convoluted scenario...

The 2000 TMRCA on Yfull is shared with a Lebanese. On FTDNA that has more samples you see that there are also people from Italy, Turkey, Iraq and Greece (who's actually a Cypriot if I remember correctly). This is a typical distribution and TMRCA for an Anatolian or Levantine branch that moved to...

Levantine or Anatolian branch that moved to southern Europe during the Roman period. FTDNA: https://discover.familytreedna.com/y-dna/J-FT196614/tree

Tocharian speakers came from the PIE homeland and the best candidate culture for ancestors of Tocharians is Afanasievo. Genetics supports this because Afanasievo samples are very similar to Yamnaya and almost contemporaneous with them. Shienzigou nomads have a lot of indigenous Asian ancestry...

You don't even follow the research, if you did you'd know they have made repeated attempts to sample potential proto-Greek burials but most have failed to yield DNA (Nydri Lefkada middle Helladic tombs, Vranas Marathon, others are listed in Clemente et al supplamentals). This isn't just from...

There's no conspiracy theory in this case, the paper with aDNA from Amvrakia was presented as an abstract at a conference last fall so I assume will be published in the near future. BTW, it's much easier for dishonest Greek researchers to promote continuity of modern Greeks with the northern...

I didn't say anything about purity, just relative continuity in central and southern Greece from the LBA to IA, which is a fact. You probably thought I was arguing for continuity between BA Greece to modern Greece, try reading more carefully next time. Not sure what you mean with "absurd...

R-PH155 is an indigenous Central Asian lineage and was not part of the Pontic-Caspian steppe groups. R-V1636 is from the area between the Northern Caucasus and the Volga (Eneolithic period) but didn't spread to the western steppe when the Sredni Stog/Yamnaya profile emerged. It was later...

Seems to originate with Cardial Neolithic but the big bottleneck/founder effect happened during the Bronze Age. Its spread seems associated with Punics, Iberians, Imperial Romans or a combination of those. I definitely expect this haplogroup (or its cousin branches) to pop-up in upcoming Western...

Lol I don't give a shit about Albanian and Vlach haplogroups in modern Greeks, try a different angle

It's a conspiracy, the nefarious Greek archaeologists intentionally removed all steppe ancestry from the bone sample of the Griffin Warrior and made the Y chromosome reads low coverage in order the hide his true Illyrian identity ;)

If you believe all the stories Ancient Greeks told about themselves then you will find a hard time reconciling the stories with any genetic evidence. Are we supposed to believe Athenians sprang from the earth of Attica? As for the Dorian issue, obviously there were movements of people but they...

Both the Balkan branch and the British branch of this haplogroup probably came from central Europe. But I don't think this has anything to do with Galatians, the spread was earlier (La Tene culture, etc).

That's exciting, thanks

So I suppose it's just a devilish coincidence that the "Urnfield-Tumulus invaders" were speaking a Greek dialect just like the Mycenaeans did. And where is all the Urnfield-Tumulus admixture/haplogroups in the Balkans?