"Thracians: where did they come from?" Topic

This may seem like a silly question… but if you ask this question about just about any other European peoples, there is an answer.

The Romans were ethnic Italians influenced by Greek colonization… Celts were the remains of the hallstatt and kurgan culture etc.

So what ethnic stock did the thracians come from?
From what I have read, I cant find an answer. They just sort of pop up and cause problems for the Greeks for the next 500 years.

They seem to have a somewhat Celtic society, while honoring a Germanic style God, and really really enjoy plunder

If anybody has any insight into the origins of the thracians, I would be fascinated to know what you find.

Thanks
Austin

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thracians

don't get hung up on pigeon holeing ancient cultures.

For some reason, I always thought south slavic in/around Bulgaria, but I never researched it.

Thracians are put into the same Indo-European language group as the Cimmerians, called Thraco-Cimmerian.

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The Slavs arrived well into the dark ages.

Their mommies?

Thrace?

Thracians are put into the same Indo-European language group as the Cimmerians, called Thraco-Cimmerian.

There's a bunch of conflicting theories about where Thracian fits inside Indo-European. Knowledge of the Thracian language(s) being scant, none is well supported.

As Indo-Europeans, they, or a stratum influential enough to supplant the language of the previous inhabitants, presumably arrived from the east sometime before the Iron Age. On the "kurgan hypothesis" with variants they descend from invaders from the Pontic steppe during the Bronze Age. On the Renfrewian view, they might have lived in their historical haunts since the beginning of the Neolithic.

Are there any archaeogenetic results that might shed some light?