When I said western I was actually talking about Sardinia. I don't know which time frame exactly where they taken, expect they are from Bronze Age.
From a cultural prespective I find the Greek colonization of Italy to be a, very, good thing. And they surely left a large genetic input in Southern Italians. Now how they treated the locals that's something else. I do believe that this narrative viewing Sicilians as nearly nothing more than Italian speaking Greeks is partly ifluenced by a Greaco-centric view, i.e due to the attractive Greek civilization, so the idea of being some lost ancient Mediterranean Spartan brothers or something like that.
They tend to miminize anything comes from north or anything that isn't Greek or MENA.
What Italian, or at least what Italian knowing anything about Italian archaeology and history would see Sicilians, or Southern Italians, for that matter, as nothing more than Italian speaking Greeks?
If you're speaking of anthrogenica, you must not realize that there are no actual Italians there to my knowledge. Sickeliot, under whatever sock name he's now using there is not Italian. First he was Portuguese Princess and other Iberian sock names, who t-rolled Southern Italians and Sicilians mercilessly from theapricity, forumbiodiversity, even here. When he was attacked for that he suddenly pronounced publicly that he was half Sicilian/half Portuguese from Cape Verde, I think, and he hadn't been t-rolling, he had been "celebrating". What he wasn't so eager for people to know is that he is a known anti-Semite infamous on his college campus, and a known apologist and enthusiast for the "Arab" cause. His politics and his biases totally distort whatever "analysis" he does, which is actually usually a distortion of things I said on 23andme.
In his latest incarnation he announced online that he was half Sicilian/one quarter Polish and one quarter Portuguese. He has sent me links to e-mail accounts, pictures supposedly from his travels in Sicily (which were obviously photo-shopped) and numerous fake accounts to prove he wasn't who I knew him to be. How can anyone take the pronouncements of such an obviously disturbed young man seriously?
Needless to say, like everyone else at anthrogenica he was completely and utterly wrong about the Etruscans, he (and they) was wrong in saying Remedello would be highly steppe admixed, as would be the Italian Beakers, he, and they, and eurogenes ridiculed me when I said Iran Neo started arriving in Italy at least by the early Bronze, and, to cap it off he, and they, said it was ludicrous to believe the ancient Greeks would turn out to be pretty close to modern Sicilians and Southern Italians. In fact, he used to tell me that the Greeks had no influence on Italy, and the similarities were from Italian migration TO Greece.
How times have changed, thanks to ancient dna. Of course, some of us had pieced it together before we had the ancient dna.
So, forgive me, but how they see these things is of no interest to me, and should be of no interest to anyone. They have been wrong each and every time.
Perhaps there are a few there who have some Italian American ancestry, and have been fooled by charlatans like thim. That would explain there complete lack of familiarity with the subject matter. Cramming some facts from Wiki are not enough.
Anyway, anthrogenica is the last place I would look for a take on how "Italians" view all of this, and absolutely NOT as a source for Italian academic perspectives on it. Heck, they didn't even read the ANGLO world scholarship on the Etruscans, much less the Italian one.
Btw, whose PCA is this? It looks odd.