Angela
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Yeah, you're right, it is sort of like the playing chess with a pigeon meme.
Amazing, really. Don't they get that this was the capital of the Empire, and we have no way of knowing whether these samples are "natives" of even a few generations or just travelers?
Maciamo went through a lot of the immediate post Roman Empire samples and it was clear a lot of them were visitors from Northern Europe.
There couldn't have been visitors, traders, and on and on from the east that just happened to die in Rome?
It's just stupid.
By the way, did you see the new Sarno and Boattini paper posted on the site? Seems like Southern Italians can be pretty well described as a mix of Anatolian Farmer and Caucasus Hunter Gatherer. Makes sense to me. Just wish I could get the tree to post.
https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threa...als-ancient-events-and-long-term-isolation-in