Upper Paleolithic & Nordic Albanians are albanized Serbs

Coon makes it clear that UP traits are concentrated in TWO tribes of Ghegeria.

Attempts to intercorrelate metrical and morphological characters with each other and with pigmentation reveal the presence of the following types in Ghegnia...

(1) A tall, large-headed, brachycephalic, wide-faced type, with intermediate pigmentation, and an especial tendency toward rufosity. This is the Borreby-like type prevalent in Montenegro; in Albania it is almost wholly confined to the tribe of Malsia ë Madhë, and within that tribe is concentrated in the bairak of Gruda.

Chaper XII Section 13

Albania and the Dinaric Race

These regions are where Serboi migrated in the 7^th century. That UP element had lived in N. Montenegro since the Dorian invasions of 2000 BC. From there it was forced into Old Montenegro by the Ottomans and from there spilled over a tiny bit into the northernmost regions of Ghegeria. So the presence of UP Montenegrins is Serb in origin.

Coon asserted that Old Montenegrins were Albanians who were slavicized at some point:

"They are linguistically Serbs, but there can be no question that they are to a large extent Slavicized Albanians; the cultural continuity between the two peoples is striking, the only real differences being those of language and religion".

(Chapter XII, section 12)

The Living Slavs

The blood-feud, patriarchy, honour-killings are comon to all mountain-dwelling, pastoral people who disdain subsistence agriculture. That was not known in 1939. Yo'av Karny's book Highlanders makes the point quite strongly.

We know that the Balsa nobility wrote & spoke in Serbian:

http://www.montenet.org/econ/trzak2.gif

And unlike in Coon's time, we know the origin of the Upper Paleolithic element is in Eastern Serbia and that it's been residing in Montenegro since very recent times.

Old Montenegro was called Katunska Nahija at the time of Ivan-beg Crnojevic in the 15th century when it was the southernmost region of kingdom, which was actually centered in N Montenegro (the Brda region).

Katun = cottage; nahija = district. So, it was only populated seasonally & sparsely until 500 years ago.

UP Albanians are Ottoman era Serb intruders from Old Montenegro and they to N. Albania as Serbs and were eventually, later albanized.

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In that same sense any Nordicism in Albania is attributable to Slavic or Serboi influence:

http://ww.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7681/origins_7_ii_blondism.html

Entirely outside of Albania, in Montenegro and the Kossovo country, are Peia, Podrima, and a number of clans in the neighborhood of Mitrovitza. South of the Drin are Zadrima, immediately southeast of Shkodra; Puka, Mirdita, and Luma, part of which is Serbian-speaking; south of this band are Mati, the tribe of King Zog, and Dibra, which occupies the slopes on either side of the Black Drin

Attempts to intercorrelate metrical and morphological characters with each other and with pigmentation reveal the presence of the following types in Ghegnia...

(5) A blond, brachycephalic, convex-nosed Noric, of standard type. It is commonest in Zadrima.

(6) A few light brown-haired Nordics, centered in Luma.

Nordic accretions produce a Noric, Borreby-like accretions an Old Montenegnn. Neo-Danubian Slavic additions product the small-faced type common in Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia.

Chaper XII Section 13

Albania and the Dinaric Race

Note (5): Nordics in Albania are commonest in Zadrima, which is in northwestern Albania.

This area was actually settled by Serbs & Slavs in the early 7th century. This is not surprising because the name Zadrima is a pure Serbian word, meaning 'behind the Drim'. Za is a shortened form of iza, which means behind. The letter 'a' is a Slavic neuter posessive suffix. Wendish Serb tribes used variations based on the word za - behind when they settled in Bosnia, Hercegovina & Dalmatia in the same period as they settled North Albania, for example: the medieval Serb state of Zahumlje (http://en.wikipedia.org/Zahumlje).

The movement of the South Slavs took them...to the Gore region of Northwestern Albania.

Carleton Stevens Coon

Races of Europe

(Chapter VI, section 7)

The Slavs

Macmillam Press

1939

Note (6): Nordics in Albania are commonest in Luma, also - a region which was specifically settled by Wendish Serbs in the early 7th century:

"The once important Serbian influence in Albania has left few vestiges, other than Slavic place names, and the presence of a few islands of Moslem Serb speakers in the mountains, as in the Gora district of Luma".

Carleton Stevens Coon

Races of Europe

(Chapter XII, section 12)

1939

Unfortunately, the Illyrians of Central & Northern Albania, called Illyris in ancient times, were completely massacred by the Romans in 168 BC for siding with Macedonia:

Roman treatment of Illyrians south of the Drin had reached a brutal climax following the victory over Macedonia in 168 BC. In attacks by the Roman army on Macedonian allies in northern Epirus and Illyris, 70 communities were destroyed, 150 000 of the population enslaved and the countryside devastated.

A century & a half later, Strabo records:

"...at the present time desolation prevails in most parts, while in the areas still inhabited they survive only in the villages and among the ruins".

John Wilkes

The Illyrians

Chapter: Prehistoric Illyrians

Page: 208

Blackwell Publishers

1992

It is safe to rule out a Nordic Illyrian origin for Albanian blondism on these grounds.

The extermination of the 'real Illyrians' in 168 BC who dwelt in Central & Northern Albania, called Illyris - nullifies the possibility of secondary characteristics of Nordic morphology in living Albanians being of Illyrian origin.

On the other hand, the fact that these Nordic characteristics are found in high frequency only in parts of Albania known to have been settled by Slavs & Serbs in the early 7th century - confirms beyond doubt that secondary characteristics of Nordic morphology in living Albanians being of unmixed Serb & Slavic origin.