Are lightish people in South Balkans(Greece/Albania) remnants of Slavs?

[archangel]

You know, you see some few fairer than avarage Albanians or Greeks expecially in here Antro forums that look very different than their countrymen.

What are their origins? Because originally Albanians and Greeks are neolithic, southern ethnic groups.

I think those few light ones are descandants of Slavs from 6 th Century.

What do you think?

[Joso]

Interesting

[Turkophagos]

There always was a minority of light(er) people in Greece, before and after the arrival of the Slavs.

Also, did the proto-slavs who invaded Balkans were sub-racially homogenous, belonging to a certain lighter subrace?

[Zeus]

I don't know how strong the slavic remnant is among Greeks and Albanians, but I do know that light features can occur naturally across Southern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa........

[archangel]

There always was a minority of light(er) people in Greece, before and after the arrival of the Slavs.

Also, did the proto-slavs who invaded Balkans were sub-racially homogenous, belonginf to a certain lighter subrace?

Slavs who invaded Balkans were East Nordid/Baltid/North Pontid variants hence lighter than swarthy Neolithic natives.

[archangel]

I don't know how strong the slavic remnant is among Greeks and Albanians, but I do know that light features can occur naturally across Southern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa........

maybe but for Albania and Greece, the source is Slavic imho

[Turkophagos]

Slavs who invaded Balkans were East Nordid/Baltid/North Pontid variants hence lighter than swarthy Neolithic natives.

Then the answer is no, because these types are very rare in Greece. Most of the light people here are Dinarids and/or Dinarid-mixed. Especially Baltids, they are almost non-existant here.

[Bellbeaking]

there would have been some native alleles for lighter features, in addition to an increase in alleles for lighter pigment with slavic migrations too!


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[alb0zfinest]

There are plenty, and I meant plenty of dark Slavs. Are you saying the light Slavs conspired together to assimilate themselves into Albanians and Greeks?

[Ayetooey]

Probably a mixture of throw back slavic genetics/influence or proto illyrian/thracian/greek PIE genetics; every Balkanite has significant slavic influence regardless of how some want to cope, and Greece/Albania are both full of slavic toponyms. Of course these groups are both predom darker, bronze age neolithic people, so we're talking about a very few rare cases where northern phenotypes pop up. Don't let anthro forums fool ya.