Archaeological evidence. Bell Beaker remains were primarily Dinaroid-Cromagnoid.
Bell Beaker populations did actually penetrate into the Balkans. No, it was not part of the Bell Beaker culture, but that Bell Beaker element did travel to the Balkans. Along with it came that basically Dinaroid-Cromagnoid element of the Bell Beakers. It is worth to mention that while the Bell Beakers also came to the Balkans, the Bell Beakers also were in Central Europe through which that Bell Beaker element has further influenced the Balkans.
http://www.bris.ac.uk/archanth/staff/heyd/Krakow1.pdf
They were influenced by it. I explain that above and I included a pdf which speaks of archaeological evidence of Bell Beaker presence in the Balkans.
To lay this down. The original statement was that Albanians are the population that is the closest to the old Bell Beakers in
phenotype. The Bell Beakers were basically Dinaroid-Cromagnoid, therefore the premise is that for the Albanians to be close to the Bell Beakers by phenotype they would have had to be a basically Dinaroid-Cromagnoid population, which they are.
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