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George Papandreou, who was mentioned in this thread as an example of a "MENA-looking" Greek, has about 60% Northern European ancestry, with the rest being mainland Greek. His mother was American of NW European descent and his father was 1/4 of Polish-Lithuanian ancestry. He and his daughter have...

The European cline from this paper appears continuous (it doesn't have gaps) which hints at admixture between the "EU Cores". Similar to what we've seen in the Olalde et al pre-print, where there looks to be admixture between the "Balkan_IA" cluster and the "NE_Cluster". The haplogroups in...

G-Z16775 is under G-L497, the most common G2a subclade in central/western/northern Europe. The L497 mutation must have happened somewhere in Central Europe and your haplogroup is definitely a lot younger than 11000 years ago (YFull gives a TMRCA of 4000 years ago). The ultimate origin is in...

Yes, there is a Χαρβάτι (Harvati) in Argolis and also in Attica. But for this toponym it's possible it was brought by Albanian-speakers, since areas in both Argolis and Attica were settled by them. Not sure really. Some Slavic words were actually brought by Albanian and Vlach-speakers and you...

Curious fact: there is a place called Χλέβενα (Chlevena) in Laconia in the Peloponnese. Unlike other Slavic toponyms this doesn't seem to exist anywhere else in Greece. Close to a village called Ρογκόζενα which is similar to a toponym in Serbia (Rogozna) and also Croatia (Rogoznica).

We've been hearing these arguments about the countryside for years, "cities are sinks", "the cosmopolitan urbanites disappeared", etc. And yet the Etruscan paper shows that modern Tuscans carry significant ancestry from those urbanites that supposedly disappeared. I'm quite sure we'll see the...

Which Thessalian Greeks with "high steppe admixture" are you talking about? They may have existed at some point but we need to see them first. The theory of "rural, unadmixed, high-steppe" Greeks that survived everything and are wrongly accused of having Slavic ancestry doesn't hold, because we...

First of all, there's no reason to use HRV_EBA and HRV_MBA when we have HRV_IA. Unless you think there's genetic continuity in the Dalmatian region from the Early Bronze Age.. Just like modern Greek mainlanders plot close to the Logkas samples by coincidence, it's a similar case with other...

The distances in the Italian model you posted are bad. And that's on g25 which isn't a formal tool, so obviously this model would fail with qpAdm. I can't post links at the moment in this forum, but if you try modelling South Balkanites with BGR_IA + Slav on g25 you will see that the distances...

Did you read the paper? It's obvious that between the Iron Age and the late Roman Imperial times, there was a significant East Med/Anatolian shift in the Balkans. Exactly when and how it happened, we still don't know. Just to be clear, I'm talking about the "Balkan IA cluster", not the "NE cluster".

It would be helpful for you guys to investigate how 23andMe's region-assigning algorithm works. Long story short, the reason so many Balkanites get Peloponnese as their top region (or one of the top) is because Greek-Americans, who mostly descend from the Peloponnese, are the most tested Balkan...

Why is it ironic? Isn't this how any admixture event works?

This Slavic-related ancestry in the islands was obviously mediated by mainland Greeks over the last 10+ centuries.

I don't care about nationalist bs but what's so strange about the Greek dude in the YouTube video you posted? He looks like a typical Mediterranean who has grown a big beard.

I think this is mostly due to with their ancestral components' percentages being similar after PCA analysis. It doesn't necessarily mean recent common heritage. Lots of Greeks and Italians plot close to Ashkenazi Jews but score 0% Ashkenazi on 23andMe and MyHeritage (which have a lot of...

The confidence levels seem like... they're not working yet? I have a 1,7% "English" component which I assume is noise but it stays the same even with confidence level set to high.

Haven't read all the posts here but I find it problematic the paper didn't attempt any comparisons with the neighbouring Slavophone populations: North Macedonians and Bulgarians. Was there any follow-up?