Sicilians: Phenotypical variation and similarity to other ethnic groups

[Georgewalley]

Each photo can be found on the internet with valid URL. Sicilians in traditional dress, folk groups and well known personalities. Some of them might be too exotic for European standards, but keep in mind that Sicily is in between South Europe and North Africa in terms of geography although the majority of modern Sicilians identify as Italian there has been attempts to make a separation from Mainland Italy just like there in Sardinia.

From my observations They're mostly Mediterranean looking rather on the European Mediterranean spectrum with a significant Eastern Mediterranean input by Byzantines, Early Greek settlements, Punic, Phoenician and Canaanite/Hebrew input to a lesser extent. Sicilians can have Spanish, Norman, North Italian, Albanian, North African, French input but the wast majority of their ancestry seems to link them to Early Neolithic Farmers who came to Sicily via the Mediterranean sea routine and represent the Original Neolithic Farmer ancestry of South Europe.

Sicilian folk groups, famous pictures of random Sicilians:

Sicilian family from Agrigento:

Sicilian separatists:

Sicilian folk dancers from Polizzi Generosa, Palermo:

Sicilian students:

Sicilian actors, actresses, singers and TV personalities and some famous stock pictures of various Sicilians :

Sicilian Mafia bosses:

Sicilian language