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Correct and he was from Como, in today's Lombardy. It would be cool to stumble on his remains to see what his autosomal results are, arguably quite different than those found in this study anyway.

It is not the point though is it? Even if there was, what Jovialis stated is that the people there are closer to what ever population was present in the region prior to the Imperial era (probably an Italic + Aegean mix). Which would easily demonstrate that those Pompeiians are basically newcomers.

Sample bias as most of those left behind were slaves? Could this be a possibility? Also, how large was the sample from the city of Rome? Wouldn't indigenous Romans burn their dead?

Jut to clarify, I was referring only to the more south-eastern shifted. I don't think Italic-Aegean mixes would plot there. Having said that I find it hard to draw conclusions on such small sample as small samples yield extreme results more often than large samples do. Let's hope they get more...

Pesaro was part of the Byzantine "Pentapolis" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_the_Pentapolis). Could those just be Byzantine foreigners?

Vitruvius, you are right. I'm sorry but I'm still learning to use these tools, in fact I need to correct my post above picking only those relatives with 4+ grandparents from the same area. In that case, the picture is quite different and not very telling. Excluding the New World and the UK, I...

I'm not sure about that. The most powerful Lombard duchies were in Central (Spoleto) and Southern (Benevento) Italy. Though I agree that probably very few of those 100k-120k Lombards ventured much farther south than that.

Mikel Arteta is a good example of Spanish Basque.

That goes against my experience. The most noticeable difference between the Basques and the rest of the country, as far as I could see (and according to my Spanish non-Basque wife) is that they are on average bigger and have a more "ancestral" look. The poster claiming the Basques are "barely...

IMO these are two unmistakeably Spanish phenotypes.

The Baltic Sea I suppose. Imagine when people use the Mediterranean Sea as an excuse to group together countries that have even less in common...

In the dialect of Milan.

I'm referring to the DNA relatives I'm getting on 23&Me as a Lombard. Excluding Italy, UK and New World countries (like USA, Canada, Brasil and Argentina), that are more subject to sampling bias, most of my "indigenous" relatives are from Germany (19), France (8), Croatia (7) (the only...

Nice and Menton were Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont until 1860, when they were more or less voluntarily passed to France by a plebiscite that was rigged by both the French and the Italian royal House of Savoy. I'm surprised they are not marked as "FULLY" non-Francophone areas.

What do you think about the distant relatives modern Lombards tend to get on DNA tests instead? As far as I can tell most (excluding other Italians) are from the Alpine region. What is the source of this common ancestry in your opinion?

In your opinion what would be the historical circumstances under which these areas could be affected by "Aegean" inputs (excluding post unification)?

That's all true guys, don't you know? The Roman Empire was Levantine, Da Vinci was Circassian, Marco Polo a Croat and Columbus a Spanish Jew. (y)(y)(y)

By Roman Italy do you include Gallia Cisalpina too?

So basically they’re subsuming a part of Greece and all Aegean Is. in “East Med” now? It sounded more accurate before IMO