Po redaktohet Illyrians (paragraf)

===Archaeology===
The Illyrians emerged from the fusion of PIE-descended [[Yamnaya culture|Yamnaya]]-related population movements ca. 2500 BCE in the Balkans with the pre-existing Balkan Neolithic population, initially forming "Proto-Illyrian" Bronze Age cultures in the Balkans.{{sfn|Wilkes|1992|p=33–35, 39}}{{sfn|Dzino|2014b|p=15–19}}{{sfn|Lazaridis|Alpaslan-Roodenberg|2022|pp=8, 10–11, 13}} The proto-Illyrians during the course of their settlement towards the Adriatic coast merged with such populations of a pre-Illyrian substratum – like Enchelei might have been –, leading to the formation of the historical Illyrians who were attested in later times. It has been suggested that the myth of [[Cadmus]] and [[Harmonia]] may be a reflection in mythology of the end of the pre-Illyrian era in the southern Adriatic region as well as in those regions located north of Macedonia and Epirus.{{sfn|Šašel Kos|2005|p=235}}

Older [[Pan-Illyrian theories]] which emerged in the 1920s placed the proto-Illyrians as the original inhabitants of a very large area which reached central Europe. These theories, which have been dismissed, were used in the politics of the era and its racialist notions of [[Nordicism]] and [[Aryanism]].{{sfn|Wilkes|1992|p=38}} The main fact which these theories tried to address was the existence of traces of Illyrian toponymy in parts of Europe beyond the western Balkans, an issue whose origins are still unclear.{{sfn|Wilkes|1992|p=39}} The specific theories have found little archaeological corroboration, as no convincing evidence for significant migratory movements from the [[Urnfield culture|Urnfield]]-[[Lusatian culture]] into the west Balkans has ever been found.{{sfn|Wilkes|1992|p=38, 81}}{{sfn|Stipčević|1977|p=17}}{{sfn|Dzino|2014b|p=13–19}}