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Ok. Alphabet is of bronze age origin.
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If by IE you mean from the Steppe R1 linage then no. The Rethelians were not Indo-European speakers. But the Neolithic Greeks were. Around 5000 BC, tribes of Iberians join the Neolithic Greeks who were J2 and Ev13, lose their language over a period of 2000 years, and the combination of those people become the Ancient Greeks.
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New Survey Says Greeks Taught Agriculture to Neolithic Scandinavians
The scientists examined the DNA of four Scandinavian farmers of the Neolithic Age and found that they had more genes in common with inhabitants of the Mediterranean countries, such as Greeks, Cypriots or Sardinians, rather than with Northern people.
They analyzed, by means of innovative techniques, the genetic material of one farmer and three hunters-gatherers found in Sweden. These four skeletons date back to the Neolithic Age, almost 5,000 years ago.
Comparing the farmer’s genetic material to other modern Europeans’, scientists found more similarities with the Southern inhabitants DNA, rather than with that of their neighbors. On the contrary, the three hunters-gatherers were more like the Norwegians.
According to the researchers, this result leads to the conclusion that ancient Greeks gave their agricultural knowledge to the Northern communities and they did not simply just explain their techniques to them. They had to travel so far and thus, their genetic material was mixed with the Scandinavians...
https://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/05...scandinavians/
Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4922144/
Study: Aegean farmers replaced hunters of ancient Britain - Phys.org
Ancestors of Stonehenge builders migrated to Britain from Mediterranean coast, study says
The same Aegean migrants mixed extensively with local populations when they introduced farming to continental Europe about 1,000 years earlier
https://nationalpost.com/news/study-...ncient-britain