Angela
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Bernard Sergent in 1995 suggested that Poladans were the first Ligurians, Italic is more recent and perhaps linked with the Terramare (Polada+Danubian influences). In Catalunya Polada material is associated with brachycephalic skulls of the "alpine type".
We don't have Polada DNA yet but the archaeological record suggest a considerable immigration from the northern side of the Alps to the Po Valley (Barfield 1994) that replaced Remedello and the local Late Bell Beaker. From the North of Italy gradually Polada expanded in Liguria, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and the two islands, all territories were Bell Beaker was still dominant (except Corsica).
I'm inclined to see it this way as well.