(04-17-2024, 05:37 PM)Riverman Wrote: He wouldn't assume those J2 coming from Anatolia if they were all J-L283. He might be wrong with some of his conclusions, but that's too grave of a mistake to make. The appearance of J and exotic ancestry being associated, according to his post, with recent arrivals from the East. And he specifically talks about Persian-Pakistani refugees from the Islamic conquest, which would be an ideal fit for early Roma in my opinion.
Probably his reference to later Roma samples refers to the later periods, when their population was consolidated?
He thinks the majority of modern day Bulgarian "M241" is not J2b-L283. That is a dead giveaway he doesn't even know what J2b-L283 is let alone its aDNA distribution. I don't doubt lots of J2a-L24+ samples were also present in CE Thrace. That individual solely mentioned macrohaplogroup designations such as "J1" or "J2" and later on "M241". West-Central Paleo-Balkan J2b-L283 being found in the territory of modern day Bulgaria during 1000 CE is absolutely realistic.