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Rather interesting. When I first saw the title I assumed the reason being was due to Sardinians retaining a level of ~15% WHG, which is very high relative to the rest of Italy and southern Europe. Sardinia is of course an already well known blue zone. It appears however that the correlation...

In that case I agree with you on both points.

The Sea peoples were a final bronze age phenomenon that would only come ~400 years after these samples and those of Roca Vecchia so I don't think the chronology allows for that, however we know the sea peoples were also northerly tribes, relative to the Egyptians, so in all likelihood it is...

Quite a lot on the S. Italian MBA lately. These samples are less B.A. Aegean/modern like drifted than many of the more eastern Pugliese Coppa Nevigata ones, but still show a lot of commonality. They are also closer to the Tyrrhenian sea rather than Adriatic or Ionian, so it's reasonable to...

It's quite surprising to see Postern B individual 19 plotting directly over northern Italian norms in the southern Italian Middle Bronze age. We now have two of these BA types documented within Italy and both seem to be from rather early contexts. I hypothesize that this profile will become...

Many Americans are shockingly uneducated on the historic emergence of the respective cultures around the world - often even those concerning their own ancestral backgrounds at times. I think it's particularly worse for those who are more significantly mixed (both ethnically and racially on a...

To my knowledge self identification with the white racial classification in places like Brazil and the rest of South America is rather differentiated from connotations in places like the US or the old colonial Anglosphere. In this case it is seen as more of an identification of majority...

It's a taboo subject in much of the western world but the truth is as you've said; the old racial classifications were roughly correct in seperating europeans, africans, east asians, native americans and middle eastern populations. Academia attempts to often times create a divide between the...

For a two way admixture event using this sample to create a profile similar to yourself this would appear reasonable, but I would presume the historic reality is that it's more likely that the Roca-Vecchia_MBA profile was progressively diluted by Iron age and Classical era Greek newcomers in...

I don't see why not. You will find linguistic diversity everywhere prior to the proliferation of the radio. Highly distinct, even mutually unintelligible dialects were found as standard between different city states and regions internal to the modern national borders of Germany, France...

I guess the total lack of EHG ancestry makes them much less modern shifted than I had originally assumed. Thanks for the PCA.

French in 1821 - 30.4 million Higher than any other European nation, including Russia.

I agree that there was definitely no pure Iran_N arrival in Italy, and that a large amount of EEF dna in this sample is unlikely to have a specifically Italian Neolithic origin, but I question as to how common this sample profile was even in S. Italy by the MBA. That's not to say there aren't...

I'm guessing this sample is abnormal for Apulia/S. Italy as far as how much Caucasian input it has for the MBA, but it serves as evidence to show that there was contact and genetic exchange with the Greek world in Southern Italy during this period. Is it perhaps plausible that this person was...

This image is comically wrong. Anatolian Neolithic Farmers were light skinned. EHGs also had majority dark hair. The appearance of the two would not have been anywhere near as extreme as what is shown. Light hair as a isn't something that came from the steppe but a feature that became...

I would guess a pretty wide variety of social standings for any truly local population - Do you think otherwise? To me the context of how Northern Italian like individuals and Chernyakhov "Germanics" who plot similar to Bulgarians arrived is a much more interesting question. The difference in...

Not a problem at all. I too am no expert, but I just wanted to clarify what I was saying. And to your credit, you are correct that Y-dna does comprise of about ~2% total human DNA. It's just that most of this DNA is not utilized in any way to influence trait dynamics.

I mean this respectfully, but to be clear I specified genes, not dna. It is important to not confuse the two. The vast majority of dna does not code for proteins and is known as junk dna. It contributes nothing to your genetic makeup - meaning it has no function or contribution to your...

This is absolutely false. An autosomal basis focuses on 95% of protein coding genes of the human genome , with the X chromosome representing about 4%, and the Y chromosome/Uniparental representing a mere 0.5% at just 100-200 protein coding genes total. Not only does uniparental heritage...

Minoans, typically are considered to predate Greek civilization as they were not Greek speakers. Mycenaean are considered the earliest iteration of the Greek ethnos and they enter the stage by rapidly absorbing the Minoans. Autosomal ancestry is going to be the definitive call on continuity...