[tied] Re: Black Athena: The Afroasiatic RootsofClassicalCivilizati

From: andrew_and_inge
Message: 44996
Date: 2006-06-16

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:

> "Genetically as well, the Greeks are closer to the people of Anatolia
> than to those of the northern Balkans. "

This is incorrect. In any meaningful way I am aware of the Greek
population forms a continuum with the rest of the Balkans as well as
Southern Italy. On the other hand many haplotypes present in high
levels in Greece are almost non-existant in Turkey.

Of course this may be a modern situation caused by late classical and
medieval movements of people, but what other genetic evidence do we
have?

Regards
Andrew