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Do we have Southern Illyrian samples?

What does that mean? Is a 'Levantinist' someone who acknowledges the obvious fact the modern Greeks, Italians and other southern Europeans have some amount of Iron Age Levantine and Anatolian ancestry? Frankly, it's absurd that there have been so many papers which show that this ancestry was...

I'm not sure that's controversial, it's obvious Illyrians and Northeast Italians descend largely from the same or very similar populations.

What's the sample size for that?

J2 is older than these linguistic groupings

We have some samples from Tiszapolgar/Bodrogkeresztúr from a recent study about skeletal health in the Neolithic-BA transition. These samples are from Harvard and will be presented 'properly' in an upcoming publication. They could be in the Southern Arc, in which case maybe we get additional...

Yeah, but we're talking semantics. Usually by IE lineages we refer to lineages that existed in the early IE sites and that had the typical steppe autosomal profile. EEF languages and "Old European" cultures ceased to exist in much of Europe fairly early so by default every farmer lineage (or...

Where did E-L618 come from? Saying "E-V13 is a BA lineage" is a tautology, by default any lineage that exists today must have an ancestor lineage in the BA. Saying "E-V13 is an IE lineage" is also a tautology because by default every lineage that was present in most of BA Europe would have been...

No paper has been announced. We just hope there is one.

There is zero evidence for any of that. In fact, it's less than zero because we know the vast majority of steppe folk in Ukraine and Russia had brown hair and brown eyes and we know they mixed with local populations everywhere they went (so no "caste" either). And like I said, it's not remotely...

People who imagine Mesolithic hunter-gatherers looking like modern populations should take a good look at this new PCA from the Allentoft et al pre-print: Bedouins are closer on the PCA to central Europeans than either EHGs or WHGs are to any modern European. And the internal diversity of...

Don foragers could have some WHG that is "eating" into later populations' WHG ancestry. But Boncuklu was also WHG-shifted compared to Barcin if I remember the PCA from that paper correctly.

Not to be a party pooper, but these are most likely based on the HIrisPlex prediction system, so they're to be taken with a grain of salt. Likelihood of blonde hair seems to be overestimated by this system. Also, ancient DNA is pseudo-haploid, which means they read just one of the 2 positions on...

Well, we can't be sure, but the country distribution (Balkans, Anatolia, Caucasus) looks similar to the modern distribution of R-Z2103 and I-L699, which are the Yamnaya clades. Yfull is also missing a lot of data we know, for example I-L699 in Dodecanesian Greeks (could be of Greek or Anatolian...

23andMe is the most accurate, but not without its own problems (for example, assigning lots of Italian ancestry to Greeks). AncestryDNA is also decent, especially since they added their Aegean category. Where in Greece are you from?

Regional phenotypic variance among Greeks is overrated in the anthrofora. I know there're some notorious users who've been propagating the idea that mainland Greeks "look like Serbs" and island Greeks "look like Syrians" (whatever that's supposed to mean) but in reality there's a big overlap.

It's not perfect of course, Cypriots need an additional Anatolian and/or Levantine source (hence the higher distance).

You won't see anything like Helladic_MBA in LBA, archaic, classical or Hellenistic Greece, trust me.

I wasn't responding to you, sorry if it wasn't clear. I don't think this East Asian ancestry persists in modern Hungarians, no.

2-way results per age, only included distances under 4. Epipaleolithic to Chalcolithic: Distance to: pelop 1.74623374 58.00% Chalcolithic_Anatolia_(n=35) + 42.00% Chalcolithic_Romania_(n=1) 2.85084204 28.60% Mesolithic_Volga-Ural_(n=2) + 71.40% Minoan_Greece_(n=10) 2.97532273 27.60%...