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Indeed, not a very "GAELIC" clade. :)

I think you're a bit confused. The male line was from Central Europe and was R1b. Also, the Etruscan settlement on an island off the Sardinian coast was a trading post established by Etruscans from the mainland. The papers are out there. Just search for them.

I wasn't aware that the debate as to whether it was the Balkan Neolithic or the Near Eastern Neolithic which first introduced copper smelting had been settled. Last I heard it was too difficult to tell. If you could provide the appropriate paper I'd appreciate it.

Perhaps because he doesn't like the results? I don't know. Lazaridis certainly did, to the best of my recollection. Most Albanians reacted in the same way, as you can tell if you read the entire thread on the paper.

Testing sites where the samples are mostly from a self-selected group like diaspora Italians or Greeks are highly unlikely to provide accurate information. That was found to be true even with English samples. That's why I mostly stick with samples from academic papers, even if the numbers are...

Well, that might be true even if the admixing took place after 1940, and so the samples from the cited paper would not be affected. I don't understand this reluctance. If they turn out to be quite far from the ancient samples, fine. If they turn out to be very close to the ancient samples, they...

I'm aware of that possibility. However, looking at the analysis Jovialis did, except for Greek Macedonia, I don't see major differences between the Peloponnesian Greeks and the other more northern areas. A slight cline, perhaps, but no "break". So, that leaves two possibilities: the admixture...

Perhaps the comparisons using ancient samples should be done with the Peloponnesian samples used in George Stamatoyannopouloset al, given that... "Subjects were includedin the study if all four grandparents originated from the same village or fromvillages that were o10 kilometers apart. The...

Well, since being offensive about other countries seems to be permitted, let me just say give me France any time over the Netherlands or Belgium or Germany or any number of other countries. The issue is whether a place is "civilized", not if it's au courant with all the latest supposedly must...

Results for Iron Age and Classical samples from Italy. Target Distance Daunian Etruscan Etruscan Etruscan Etruscan_UDC_P NE-Europe_Merc Caucasus_Merc Sicani Balkans_W-Europe_Merc Caucasus_Merc Himera_Med Angela 0.19236444 • 19.6 1.2 24.8 2.2 3.8 1.0 2.2 7.2 10.0 1.2 26.8 Average...

So much for the comment from an Italian with Nazi leanings(half-Lombard and half-Umbrian ironically) who thought the dividing line in Italy should be north of the Po versus south of the Po. Piemonte, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria have more Yamnaya than Lombardia, and in fact TSI have very close to...

Certain segments of the population have lost their grip on reality. If people don't speak up we're going to enter another Dark Ages, not only in History, but in Science.

People don't even know what Arab "means". Technically it would be only people of the Arabian peninsula. The people of the Levant have some Arabic blood from the Muslim invasions which imposed Islam and the Arabic language and deposited some Arabic tribes amongst them, but the majority ancestry...

I'm afraid you're a bit confused. There is indeed, as Jovialis pointed out, a cluster labelled "Neolithic Greeks", who were very similar to but slightly different from EEF. Someone would have to check, because I'm no longer clear on the details, as to the precise difference. It might have been...

I'm not so sure it wasn't multifaceted in other regions, but interesting nonetheless.

My experience was the same in Romania. Not the same as when I was in Spain and spoke Italian in Catalonia because they wouldn't speak Spanish. Much harder going, but I managed. For this test they should have had an older Tuscan listen to it.

Exactly. What would the reaction be if Othello was played by a white actor? Plus, the two situations are not analogous at all. Netflix is selling this as a documentary, and they're perpetrating a fraud.

I was going to be ****ed off for the whole day if Italy got Sweden like numbers.

Nonsense like this makes my blood boil. I can't bring over any of my relatives LEGALLY, because, in their wisdom, the house and the Senate voted to slash immigration from Europe and open the floodgates from Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and Asia. Why? Why not at least let the quotas be...

I think what a lot of people have difficulty grasping is that pale pigmentation is a very late development in human beings. There were differences even 2000 years ago, with the evolution still continuing after that. They have to get over thinking that people even in Bronze Age central Europe...