Angela
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No evidence Classical Athenians were Anatolian admixed so far. What about Greek colonies in Italy? Archimedes?
Well, as to ancient Italy, the leaked data from an upcoming paper on Italian genetics (which, given this paper, I no longer think will answer all the questions convincingly) shows that some samples from the Greek colony near modern Naples carried a big chunk of Anatolia Bronze Age, if I remember correctly. The colony was founded by Euboea, not Ionian colonies in western Anatolia, and, of course, Late Bronze Age Greeks carried, what, 22% CHG. (Edited 8/29/22)
It will be interesting to see a comparison of the data in this upcoming Italianpaper with the data from Western Anatolia in this set of papers. I'd also like to see a comparison with data from mainland Greece and the Aegean islands in the migration period. Someone must be working on something.
This is my whole problem with the "Anatolia chest thumping" in this paper as regards Italy. YES, I get it, settlers would have gone from Anatolia to the capitol of the Empire, but from where in Anatolia? Were they Greek speakers of partly Greek ancestry from western Anatolia? I doubt there were a lot of Armenians or Kurds involved given the graphic showing so few samples with that profile.
What, indeed were the Greeks from the mainland or the Aegean like genetically during the migration period? Why couldn't some of those Antonio et al samples have come from there, either directly or via their colonies in Southern Italy?
It's tunnel vision.
We have a sample from Marathon in Greece as well, and two from Empuries.
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