were early Slavs just mongrel/watered down Balts?

[Jana]

Discuss.

[Voyt]

If you look at their geographical ethnogenesis, that is the most likely conclusion, yes. The steppe area was a major migratory route and the Balts used to live more south and east than they do now. As they moved south they intermixed with more Iranic, Caucasus, Turkic, and other steppe people and so proto-Slavic branched off of Balto-Slavic.



The reason so many Russians today have Baltic ancestry is because the Slavs assimilated many Baltic and Finnic people during the middle ages as they moved northeast

[TheOldNorth]

If you look at their geographical ethnogenesis, that is the most likely conclusion, yes. The steppe area was a major migratory route and the Balts used to live more south and east than they do now. As they moved south they intermixed with more Iranic, Caucasus, Turkic, and other steppe people and so proto-Slavic branched off of Balto-Slavic.



The reason so many Russians today have Baltic ancestry is because the Slavs assimilated many Baltic and Finnic people during the middle ages as they moved northeast

why are scythians migrating from the east here? they practically originated in that land thousands of years

[Sarmatian]

If you look at their geographical ethnogenesis, that is the most likely conclusion, yes. The steppe area was a major migratory route and the Balts used to live more south and east than they do now. As they moved south they intermixed with more Iranic, Caucasus, Turkic, and other steppe people and so proto-Slavic branched off of Balto-Slavic.



The reason so many Russians today have Baltic ancestry is because the Slavs assimilated many Baltic and Finnic people during the middle ages as they moved northeast

Balts weren't Balts when they were living "more south and east than they do now". They became Balts only after moving to Baltic area. Whoever lived more south and east was some proto-Balto-Slavic entity and part of it that didn't move anywhere later turned into Slavs.

[Voyt]

Balts weren't Balts when they were living "more south and east than they do now". They became Balts only after moving to Baltic area. Whoever lived more south and east was some proto-Balto-Slavic entity and part of it that didn't move anywhere later turned into Slavs.

True, they were proto-Balto-Slavs, but you're wrong about the ones that didn't move turning into proto-Slavs; it was the ones that moved southwest into southern Belarus and west-Ukraine that intermixed with the steppe peoples to turn into proto-Slavs. Those that stayed in the northeast turned into proto-Balts, and those proto-Balts didn't move anywhere; they were just assimilated by the east-Slavs millennia following: (for example the eastern Galindians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galind...-7-8-obrez.png ) This is why so many Russians today have Baltic genes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic...ic_relatedness

[Golden Lining]

Like I said and like it will be confirmed: Slavs are basically a "made-up ethnicity". They don't have a proto-tribe or something.

[Crn Volk]

Like I said and like it will be confirmed: Slavs are basically a "made-up ethnicity". They don't have a proto-tribe or something.

Merhaba efendi, mashala mashala

[Jana]

Another butthurt German mongrel in here. Probably hurt because of East Baltic admixture, like typical eastern mutt.

[Crn Volk]

Another butthurt German mongrel in here. Probably hurt because of East Baltic admixture, like typical eastern mutt.

He's a Turkish troll.

[Blondie]

He's a Turkish troll.

Golden Lining isn't turkish.