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Actually, since the results of all southern Italians and Sicilians I have seen, regardless of region, show anywhere from 14 to 68% Greek (the highest being an Apulian) with the average being around...

I am not going to address the rest of your post as I am leaving the forum (this is my last post), but this is not true. No one of any position of power on the forum has ever been as you described,...

It just seems obvious to me that given that the "Maltese" surnames are concentrated along the southern coast, the most likely point of departure from Sicily to Malta was there even if they are found...

This makes absolutely no sense. Whether they were Middle Eastern or not is one thing, but there is no evidence they were related to Slavs at all. Their closest linguistic relatives lived both in the...

I could see this being the case and the genetics certainly suggest it, but when would that migration have happened, exactly? Keep in mind also that the Aegean islands sample has Cypriot-levels of...

My opinions in this particular thread were stated once each, not repetitively.

To those who think that the Near Eastern in southern Italy is all from the Bronze Age, explain why it (the red component) is higher in southern Italy, especially Sicily and Calabria, than in the...

This is what I think because the Enna sample is indistinguishable from the other Sicilians and Calabrese (except Trapani). They should have sampled Gallo-Italic speakers as well.

They also could...

There are some Sicilians, Calabrese, and people from southern Campania (Salerno) who score similarly to the Greek Islands averages above. If you made a southern Calabria/eastern Sicily sample this...

I looked at the samples and I didn't see too much strange except I question not having a southern Peloponnesian sample like Mani/Laconia in there. Based on other studies results, if that was in there...

Here is the admixture chart. From this, you can clearly see that Crete is by far the closest Greek sample to the Sicilian samples, the difference being slightly higher Caucasus and slightly lower...

http://italia.indettaglio.it/eng/cognomi/cognomi_sicilia.html

They all predominate in those provinces. This gives numbers.

Attardo is highest in Palma de Montechiaro.
Vella in Gela but also in...

On MDLP K23, most Maltese I have seen score "Sicily_Agrigento" or "Sicily_West" in their top 5, which makes sense as the vast majority of their ancestry, and their surnames come from there. The most...

Probably closest to today's Assyrians and Iraqi Jews.

Are you fully Maltese?

As for the genetics, yes, you're right about Peloponnesians and I was wrong in the past but I WILL defend myself from false claims being made about my mod behavior on TA:

Casandrinos was not...

I'm not going to address most of your post but the above, is not true. Not one Greek member has been banned for anything to do with their ideas. One person was banned for harassing users, but it was...

This style of art is clearly Egyptian influenced. Not sure about the features though.

Aren't there places in Sicily where neither Norman nor Lombard ancestry would be significant? I am thinking of inland Caltanissetta, as well as the northeast coastal areas.

Well then what that shows is that the people of East Tayetos are not Slavic by any stretch of the imagination, since Sicilians have no Slavic ancestry. The paper itself demonstrates this.

East...

This shows what I said before: Deep Mani and South Tsakonia might share less IBD with Italians, but those are still their closest non-Greek relatives.[/FONT][/COLOR]

Well it clearly shows they are not Slavs at all. :) I wonder the basis for any claim otherwise. I don't mean to make this about physical appearance but the very first Greek family I ever met, friends...

My point was those isolated Maniots are not similar to Aegean islanders or Anatolian Greeks, which means they aren't isolated due to inflated West Asian affinity or anything. They must be isolated...

What I mean is, if the only populations overlapping with "Deep Mani" were the other people in the far south Peloponnese and Sicilians, but not Anatolian Greeks, islanders, Cypriots, etc. then it...

Is this saying that the Maniots are so different from all populations studied, so isolated, and the ONLY people they overlap with are Sicilians? Not even other Greeks? I want to make sure I am...