Pompeii (where the skin of the people is WHITE)
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Meh the first study admits it’s only a 62-80% adherence and “ This is due to the fact that Neolithic farmers share fewer alleles with Modern Greeks than with Mycenaeans” the graph shows Crete is more genetically related to ancient greeks, nor does it account for the post Bronze Age invasion.
Hardly " meh" when you made this argument that, and I quote
when we can demonstrate that in fact modern Greeks do have quite a bit with in common with ancient Greeks. Not my fault you made too strong of a statement and are being corrected on it.
I'm not sure what your argument is here. The Greek civilization that succeeded the Mycenaeans are largely their genetic descendants. What post Bronze Age invasion are you referring to?
The Sea Peoples.
Re-posting part of reply to address this
Also at least some of the Sea Peoples like the Achaeans/Ekwesh were themselves a Greek people
The Islamic incursion on Greece lol
First of all, Islam doesn't arrive anywhere in Greece until nearly two thousand years after the Bronze Age ends, so you might as well describe that as a "post Cambrian Period invasion" if you're going to be that off in time.
And the MENA admixture was already addressed. That's why on the PCA chart I linked to Greeks are slightly closer in genetic distance to modern MENA populations now compared to other European peoples.
On that note, just because a certain people invade another doesn't mean they wipe out the native population or even change it much (although sometime they do). Rome for example left almost no genetic legacy in Britain despite ruling it for centuries.
Again, modern Greeks are indeed significantly like their ancient ancestors.
First of all, take at look at figure 1 in your study genius, it doesn’t say what you think it does. Secondly, you brought up the Bronze Age, what’s funny is the average modern Greek is only 31% mycenaean genetically. Is that your standard of “significantly like their ancestors”?
Greeks have always had higher admixture with Anatolians and other Arabic peoples. Like this pca shows. https://thuletide.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/pca-west-eurasia.jpg?w=953
What’s funny is you came barging in, proved yourself wrong, and did so spectacularly!