Angela
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You have a point here. I used sloppy, loose wording since to me Sardinia is Italy. And when I said blond hair wasn‘t uncommon in BA Italy, I meant that is not impossible for ancient Italians to be blond. Next time I´ll try to be more precise in my usage of language. Anyways, it's a bit ironic that the researchers found in Sardinia that today has the lowest frequency of blond hair and blue eyes compared to other Italian regions, the only blond blue-eyed BA individuals. Plus, it is intriguing that blond hair and/or blue eyes weren't paired with pale skin among these BA individuals.
Yes, it's all very intriguing.
We don't have a lot of samples, though, and none from the western, Mediterranean side, so maybe more light haired and light eyed people will turn up then.
This is what I meant. Go to these links and you'll see that indeed light eyed Italians are pretty common in my parts of Italy. Neither my brother or I got those traits, although my father was fair haired until his thirties, and had green eyes. Indeed, both his parents and all 11 siblings were light eyed, although some had fair hair, some red hair like my grandfather, and a few had brownish red hair. I think part of it was founder effect in a small isolated mountain village. At least that's what Cavalli-Sforza thought when he studied the Val Parma and Val Cedra.
https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threa...-Toscana?highlight=Phenotypes+eastern+Liguria
https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threa...Appennino-Reggiano?highlight=People+Appennino