Sardinians and Imperial Romans
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First of all I wanted to comment that I had never noticed that Sardinia is so shifted towards N. Europe in PCA1. It was already this way in the Nuragic period it seems.
But that changed a lot in Classical times.
We see Sardinian stops being an ethnicity and rather becomes a random collection of individuals from different parts of the world.
1 thing they have in common though, they're shifted towards MENA, which is clearly because of the Carthaginians.
Another observation is that the inhabitants of Rome (1-500CE) are OVERWHELMINGLY 1 of these 2 kinds:
1) People in the extreme southern cluster of modern Italians(the least European of the Italians, but Italians nonetheless).
Which seems to come from a combination of Iron Age Central Italian and these new incomers from the Eastern Empire(50%European, 50%Asian).
2)Or a mix of the previous and more M. Eastern(75%Asian/25%European).
I know because they appear in the exact middle. With few of them being M. Eastern per se.
This mix locates near Cretans, Cypriots and Askhenazi Jews in the PCA of
Caucasians.
With few of them, maybe 15%, being Latins or norther. With the minority being of Celtic, Germanic ancestry from inner in Europe.
(I'll put 1 of the images through a link in order to save attachment storage)
https://images.app.goo.gl/CZrGsmU82egLHxWH9
First of all I wanted to comment that I had never noticed that Sardinia is so shifted towards N. Europe in PCA1. It was already this way in the Nuragic period it seems.
But that changed a lot in Classical times.
We see Sardinian stops being an ethnicity and rather becomes a random collection of individuals from different parts of the world.
1 thing they have in common though, they're shifted towards MENA, which is clearly because of the Carthaginians.
Another observation is that the inhabitants of Rome (1-500CE) are OVERWHELMINGLY 1 of these 2 kinds:
1) People in the extreme southern cluster of modern Italians(the least European of the Italians, but Italians nonetheless).
Which seems to come from a combination of Iron Age Central Italian and these new incomers from the Eastern Empire(50%European, 50%Asian).
2)Or a mix of the previous and more M. Eastern(75%Asian/25%European).
I know because they appear in the exact middle. With few of them being M. Eastern per se.
This mix locates near Cretans, Cypriots and Askhenazi Jews in the PCA of
Caucasians.
With few of them, maybe 15%, being Latins or norther. With the minority being of Celtic, Germanic ancestry from inner in Europe.