As much as I love ancient DNA results, I don't think there'll be anything groundbreaking about it. Unless of course none of them is R1b, E-V13, or J2a.
And I don't get why finding Etruscans among them would change anything.
I didn't assume it's Thracian but all possibilities should be considered. Slavs were the least attested tribes in Europe yet history taught us that it doesn't take the biggest and strongest to end up spreading and assimilating others the most.
Just for the sake of argument, Sarmatians were...
The problem with all these speculations is that every non-Balkan clade is labelled as Slavic when Slavs were simply the last barbarians to migrate to the Balkans, assuming that Celtic, Germanic, Sarmatian/Scythian tribes, etc. account to 0%.
A bit of reading on Roman history will show you how...
Aren't recent studies including the chance of proto-Greek coming from Anatolia? That would make the theories of a Northern origin simply legends as it seems to be the case archaeologically as many have suggested.
It seems evident that whoever came from the North was less civilized and adopted...
Sile:When's your book coming out? Galabri became Taulanti? Please provide a source. Galabri could have become Calabri and Apuli in Dacia became Apuli in South Italy could make sense, but the Taulanti theory is new to me. The Triballi were also considered as Illyrian from the mythological...
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