Jovialis
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Youre right, I was saying that the score itself can be credited to them, I wasn't arguing that they were literally LBK. It's entirely believable and more likely that they got it from southeast Europe as you stated
Indeed, but also they would have Impressed ware (who had more WHG than the South Eastern Farmers) if the Philistines in particular originally came from Italy. If many of them did come from Southern Italy, they would have been mixed more with the two farmer groups. And if they were in Crete (Caphtor) for sometime prior to the going to the Levant, they could have even more South Eastern Farmer. Perhaps they even had some locals from Crete in their ranks; or brought them during the migration to the Levant. And if they were in fact from Crete originally, they would surely have a high percent of Southeastern Neolithic. At any rate, we need to see the paper.