I wrote this e-book from August to December of 2006 because I know of no other such cohesive and comprehensive account of Serb ethnogenesis that combines the science of Physical Anthropology & Population Genetics with recorded History. I don’t offer a new theory of my own construction but rather an account of research done in the last 75 years by academics & scientists much more educated than myself. This is the first scholarly endeavor to actually reconcile the human genome together with the fossil record & written history. This e-book is divided into 3 parts:
Part 1 utilizes data from Physical Anthropology to describe the constituent populations that, from the Neolithic up to the Bronze & Iron Age, contributed to the legacy of modern, living Serbs, for whom these populations represent a collective ancestry through direct descent.
Part 2 relies on Population Genetics to get this point across, specifically data from samples recently gathered in Serbia & Montenegro that identifies a set number of distinct lineages in the Y chromosome. Each lineage is matched to the appropriate population it represents.
Part 3 discusses the origin of the Albanians.
December / 2006
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Note: SECTION 1
No theory that explains Serb ethno genesis as an autochthonous aggregate of Mesolithic, Neolithic & Bronze Age peoples can claim credibility without addressing Albanian ethnogenesis because the latter's origins were mistakenly thought to be exclusively Illyrian until the 1990s, while the former's were mistakenly thought to be Slavic. Another reason is because Albanian ethno genesis has never been properly explained, partly as a result 4 decades of deliberate distortions from Abania's communist controlled pseudo-scholarship, which has made only slight improvements in the last decade. The theory presented here is different & more credible than others because it makes abundant use of the fossil record & physical anthropology and medieval documenatation as well as contemporary, mainstream Albanologists.
The Albanians are a hybrid of 2 peoples: Anatolian Dardanians assimilated by North Caucasic tribes who entered Albania via Sicily in the 11th century. Independent research has shown that Albanians share and inordinate number of toponyms (place-names), surnames and even a significant part of their vocabulary with the North-Caucasic peoples, especially with the Chechens. These Caucasics assimilated a tiny of number of derelict Dardanian survivers who had gathered in the vicinity of the city of Arbona, after migrating south after the Romans cleansed the area in revenge for the previous inhabitants' support of the Greeks. They called themselves Arbanasi and were re-energized by the influx of Caucasic soldiers dismissed from the Byzantine-Roman campaigns of the 11th century.
MEDIEVAL MERCENARIES FROM THE CAUCASUS BRING ALBANIAN CULTURE AND IDENTITY
SECTION 2
DESCENDANTS OF ANATOLIAN DARDANIANS SETTLE IN SOUTH ALBANIA
SECTION 3
THE CAUCASIC-ANATOLIAN HYBRID ASSIMILATES THE SURROUNDING SERB POPULATION