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Your main Paleo-Balkan clade is E-V13 which I showed here: https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...on-South-Slavs
So not exactly much of an assimilation you did, mostly assimilated a bunch of Roman colonist transplants.
Even regions like Montenegro, Macedonia, Greece have high E-V13. You and other Slavs have insignificant J2b2-L283 and R1b unlike Albanians associated with Illyrians.
Nothing suggests Albanians originated in any kind of transition zone simply because they carry E-V13 when they show high continuity with Iron Age Western Balkans, we already have some of the most numerous Albanian lineages in a single site in Iron Age Albania:
''I14688 (600-400 BCE), a male sample from IA Çinamak was uploaded on FTDNA. The initial classification in the "Southern Arc" papers is that he's under R-L51.
On FTDNA, this sample was re-classified and uploaded under R-PF7563.
R-PF7563>Z29758 is one the major and most diverse Albanian lineages.
Nice catch! I personally never looked into this sample, as I thought he is some low coverage R-L51 as reported by the Southern Arc paper. I just looked at his BAM file and I would have to agree with FTDNA that I14688 is in fact R1b-PF7562>PF7563!
At R-PF7562 level, he has GG490/BY856/Y19696+ (3T), then at R-PF7563 level he is showing PF7563+ (1A), with no contradicting or negative reads.
It seems Lazaridis et al. classified him as R-L51 based on SNPs L51 which has two derived and one ancestral/negative read, and E207/Y410/MF659561 which has one derived and one ancestral read. So, unlike the R-PF7562>PF7563 calls, the R-L51 calls are clearly ambiguous.
I think this is a nice development with regards to Albanian Y-DNA. Just in LBA-IA Çinamak site in NE Albania, we have J2b-L283, R1b-CTS9219 aka R1b-CTS1450, and now R1b-PF7563, which together compose ~35-40% of modern Albanian Y-DNA.''
With your logic you could argue the same basis for any other group of people that today carry this lineage.
Today in many regions these Illyrian lineages make up 40%-50%, this cannot be a coincidence, you're the one who needs to explain this, nothing suggests any of these lineages came from Balkan interior with E-V13 whatsoever or that E-V13 is a proto-Albanian marker. This is just something you made up which you're the one who needs to prove.
Albanian is related to Messapic / Iapygian and we see the same lineages there.
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