Angela
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- Italian
According to an Anthrogenica poster who was in contact with the leaker, some of the Roman samples come from Pompeii (probably the ones clustering with modern southern Italians). Maybe the more northern ones are from the "Republican" era, and ones veering towards Cypriots were merchants from somewhere in the Hellenic world (the islands, Anatolia, Pontus, etc), which for some reason hasn't crossed the mind of anyone on Anthrogenica yet. Nothing was said whether it's from the Moots paper or not however.
There are NO Northern Italian like Roman samples in that "leaked" PCA. The most Northern one lands on Tuscans.
So, it doesn't reflect what Hannah Moots said in her presentation about 60% of the early samples resembling Northern Italians.
The discussions over there are chaotic because there is a conflict between the PCA and the Moots presentation and quotes.