Post by Emperor AAdmin on Feb 28, 2008 16:33:35 GMT -5
from wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonians_%28ethnic_group%29#Anthropology
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Conclusion: So called slavophone 'Macedonians' are anthropologically and genetically speaking primarily a native Balkanic population only linguistically slavized (for most part it is a same story as for majority of other slavophone Balkan populations).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonians_%28ethnic_group%29#Anthropology
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Anthropology
Ethnic Macedonian girl in traditional folk dress.
Ethnic Macedonians dancing the "Teškoto" folk dance.
Macedonians girls in traditional costumes.
The ancestry of present-day Macedonians is mixed. Their linguistic and cultural origins stem from the 6th century when various Slavic tribes migrated to, and settled in, the region of Macedonia.
The official position of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts is that as a whole the modern Macedonian genotype developed as a result of the absorption by the advancing Slavs of the local peoples living in the Region of Macedonia prior to their coming (Illyrians, Thracians, Greeks, Romans, etc.). This position is backed by the findings of most ethnographers such as Vasil Kanchov,[20] Gustav Weigand,[21] and the anthropologist Carleton S. Coon, which state that the Slavs in 6th century actively assimilated other tribal peoples by absorbing part of the indigenous populations of the area, including Greeks, Thracians and Illyrians.[22][23] By absorbing parts of the peoples living there the Slavs also absorbed their culture, and in that amalgamation a people was gradually formed with perhaps predominantly Slavic ethnic elements, speaking a Slavonic language and with a Slavic-Byzantine culture[24].
Some early 20th century researchers as William Z. Ripley, Coon[25] and Bertil Lundman[26], mainly considering the language as an indicator, described the Slavic speakers in Macedonia as Bulgarians, and often placed the both populations in a common racial subgroup. Other authors, like H. N. Brailsford, described Slavic speakers from Macedonia as related both with Serbs and Bulgarians.[27]}}
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Genes
The Macedonian population is also of special interest for HLA anthropological study in the light of unanswered questions regarding its origin and relationship with other populations, especially the neighbouring Balkan peoples.[28] According to some researches, they are most related to the Greeks, Bulgarians, and Romanians[29][30], but according to others, Macedonians are closest to Croats and Czechs.[31][32]. Macedonians are genetically clearly separated from the tight DNA cluster of the most Slavic peoples (the frequency of the proposed Slavic Haplogroup R1a1 ranges to 15.2% in Macedonians). This phenomenon is explained by “the genetic contribution of the people who lived in the region before the Slavic expansion” [33]. It is also corroborated that there is some non-European, inflow in the modern Macedonians.[34]Furthermore, these genetic studies support the theories that Macedonians genetic heritage is derived from a mixture of ancient Balkan peoples, as well as the relatively newly arrived Slavs with deep European roots.
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Conclusion: So called slavophone 'Macedonians' are anthropologically and genetically speaking primarily a native Balkanic population only linguistically slavized (for most part it is a same story as for majority of other slavophone Balkan populations).