Harvard anthropologist Carleton S. Coon found a connection between the Illyrians and the Dorians based on his anthropological analyses of the Albanian and Montenegrin populations as well as the Sfakian population in Crete.

Coon found that Montenegro and Albania is a highly concentrated Illyrian racial area and that the Sfakians are directly descended from the Doric tribes that invaded Crete from the direction of Macedonia and Illyria.

Furthermore, he found that the Albanians, Montenegrins, and Sfakians shared many similarities in stature, appearance, language, national dress, warlike tendencies, tribal orders, and revenge.

Photo: East Dorian plate – sphinx – München AS 451

Source

Carleton S. Coon’s antropologiska. The Races of Europe (1939)