Angela
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Probably the Etruscan study will help out, because the Daunian results were of great importance for me coming to that judgement. Because what I just don't believe is what some people always say (not necessarily you): "The other people were hiding." In most cases, the people sampled represent the people of the respective region and ethnicity. That was the main reason for my argument, that I don't think some local highly Iranian shifted Copper Age survivors were hiding en masse somewhere. They might be there, those locals with more Iranian shifted local ancestry, but they won't change the big picture all too much - I guess.
Are you assuming the Daunians were "native"?
To my knowledge we have no Copper Age or Bronze Age samples from mainland southern Italy. Were Calabria and Basilicata and southern Campania empty of inhabitants?
Not trying to be a smart slick; just trying to understand your reasoning.