
Originally Posted by
Angela
I'd love to know where I contradicted that. If you go back and read my post you'll see that I never mentioned BLUE EYES. I talked about pale skin or blond hair.
Feel free to show me the sample of pale skin and/or blond hair in any of the Bronze Age samples from Italy. Just give me the number. It's possible one that might exist. It's a long chart.
As for how many are intermediate in the Bronze Age if that's what you're talking about, in the Sardinian Bronze Age there are 32 samples, of which 15 are darker than intermediate. That seems about an even split to me.
In Bronze Age Sicily there are nine samples. Of those, six are darker than intermediate.
Central Northern Italy Bronze Age they have six samples. All are intermediate.
In the Chalcolithic, they have nine samples, of which five are darker than intermediate. One, interesting, is pale/intermediate.
In the Antonio samples from the same period, of which there are ten, six are darker.
In the Central Italian Neolithic from Antonio et al, of which there are ten samples, only one is intermediate. The Anatolian Neolithic is lighter.
In the Sicilian Neolithic of which there are four samples, two are dark, two are intermediate. One of the intermediate skinned ones has blonde hair.
No light haired people in the Copper/Chalcolithic or Bronze Age of the mainland or Sicily. It next shows up, strangely enough, in Bronze Age Sardinia, where they predict four dark blonde/intermediate skinned people. That's a surprise.
In Iron Age Italy, there's one blonde out of 13 samples.
So far, no pale skinned people, like Otzi, anywhere that I can see except that one pale/intermediate in the Chalcolithic.
In the Empire, one red head, and 5 blondes.
In Yamnaya, no blondes, and of the 17 samples, seven are darker than intermediate. I don't even know, given the their lack of SLC 24A5, SLC24A4, and SLC 45A2 how any of them are intermediate, unless Russia is loosely used and there are some Sintashta like samples in there.
So, in making sure one is interpreting a few sentences in the summary of a paper correctly, I always think it's a good idea to look at their charts.