Originally Posted by
Sarkiss
there was a lot of migrations into Italy, but none to Colchis and Caucasian Iberia? these regions stood firm and locals managed to live in total isolation for millennia and are all 'purely blooded', inbreds? what happened to all the Persian, Turkic, Kypchak, Abkhaz, Russian etc elements that lived in/controlled these lands for thousands of years? how to account for this? actually, thats more of rhetorical question going beyond our timeframe. in general, historiography (in the west at least) is about identifying peoples as they were at the time under investigation (i.e. Hellenistic period in the case of EB), how they viewed themselves, understanding them on their own terms, not as one wants them to be, nor by projecting modern lenses and dragging them into 'imagined communities'. why bother? because if you limit yourself to simplified and agenda driven quasi-historical frameworks and approaches, you cannot truly understand people in the past, their outlooks and experiences.