Angela
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Concerning Corsica, the thing that I find interesting in ancient sources is that Pausanias calls Corsicans 'Libyans'.
I have thought the possibility of a copying mistake. If, for example, where we find Λίβυες (Libues = Libyans) originally there was a Λίγυες (Ligues = Ligurians).
That would have been more consistent with modern ideas concerning the Corsi, but I don't think a mistake like that is very likely.
So, I leave open two possibilities. That the original inhabitants of Corsica were Libyans and also that the Ligurians could have been related to Libyans, too. The idea that Ligurians were 'Indo-European' is relatively popular today, but there is not much to support it.
I haven't read the study yet.
Given their yDna how could they possibly be descended from LIBYANS?
That would also ignore the fact that Corsica was settled from mainland EUROPE.
So, clearly, we're talking about ancient LIGURIANS, who were settled all over Provence, Liguria, other parts of Northern Italy, and looking in the other direction, all the way to Spain.
As for being Indo-European, you're aware, yes, that Ligurians are over 50% downstream R1b? In the mountain refuge areas it reaches 70%. Are you also aware that their culture and artifacts are similar to those of people from North of the Alps?
This is where the confusion arises.
Libici are sometimes known as Libui.
It's the same kind of confusion that has led misinformed people to confuse the Veneti and Venedi.
This is a list of the tribes of the Liguri, stretching from Italy to Spain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_Ligurian_tribes
Yes, right, they moved into Liguria from Libya.