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AnthrogenicaRefugee
11-03-2025, 11:56 AM
I just did some basic runs with supposedly Dacian samples from Moldova, the Thracian sample from Bulgaria, Hellenistic samples from Macedonia and Medieval samples from Croatia and Albania.

Modern Albanians apparently plot with them. They show very little change across millennia, thanks to hiding in the mountains I suppose.
Are they pretty much the surviving Neolithic farmer-heavy Indo-European population who lived throughout Southeastern Europe before the Slavic expansion?

https://open.lib.umn.edu/app/uploads/sites/287/2024/02/Chapter-10-SE-Euopean-Studies-Simplified-scaled.jpg

Dardanos
11-03-2025, 01:18 PM
Some cool stuff I found on X:

Percentage of IBD segments (>5CM) shared with post-medieval and modern Albanians:
https://i.ibb.co/fGHNcr4J/20251103-144327.jpg

Kėnetė, northeastern Albania:
https://i.ibb.co/tFK2RQ4/20251103-143900.jpg
Shtikė, southeastern Albania
https://i.ibb.co/1GCqXhVx/20251103-143903.jpg

Thracian samples:
https://i.ibb.co/0jLLt6rJ/20251103-144234.jpg

The new supposed Dacian sample from Moldavia you’ve probably seen:
https://i.ibb.co/yFpM7tLB/20251103-144003.jpg

The map of the supposed Dardani tribe, a Central Balkan population showing Illyrian-Thracian intermixing, a contact zone:
https://i.ibb.co/PZTcq1J8/20251103-144245.jpg

The supposed contact zone between the Dardani and Dacian tribes::
https://i.ibb.co/QF05btsh/20251103-144019.jpg