Slavic Movements into Yugoslavia

Slavic Movements into Yugoslavia

A Test of a Migration Hypothesis: Slavic Movements into the Karst Region of Yugoslavia
Gloria Jean y'Edynak
Current Anthropology, Vol. 17, No. 3. (Sep., 1976), pp. 413-428.
CONCLUSIONS
"Mathematical analyses of Pre-Slavic and Early Medieval populations of the karst and Dinaric zones of Yugoslavia show virtually no difference between them. This implies that the indigenous population of this region was not exterminated or replaced by a new population; rather, the new group seems to have contributed less in terms of genes and more in terms of language and other aspects of culture. The other possibility is that the Slavs exterminated and replaced the indigenous population in the karst and Dinaric zones but possessed almost exactly the same material culture. The former model seems the more appropriate."
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