Angela
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Mainlanders have been moving into Corsica, Sardinia, and from Corsica into Sardinia for a long time.
Teresa is correct that there's more of it in the North, probably as a result of it filtering down from Corsica.
I don't know that there's any justification at all for saying it was all Romans. It's not as if Romans made any folk migration there.
I think all the population genetics studies that talk about the fact that the Sardinians are a good proxy for the Neolithic farming populations of Europe don't emphasize enough that this is based on the genetic sample picked by Luigi Cavalli-Sforza from the isolated inland plateau around Ogliasatra.
The more accessible regions of Sardegna, including the north, have some ancestry from other places.
See: Chiang et al
"Population history of the Sardinian people inferred from whole-genome sequencing"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/12/07/092148.full.pdf
Teresa is correct that there's more of it in the North, probably as a result of it filtering down from Corsica.
I don't know that there's any justification at all for saying it was all Romans. It's not as if Romans made any folk migration there.
I think all the population genetics studies that talk about the fact that the Sardinians are a good proxy for the Neolithic farming populations of Europe don't emphasize enough that this is based on the genetic sample picked by Luigi Cavalli-Sforza from the isolated inland plateau around Ogliasatra.
The more accessible regions of Sardegna, including the north, have some ancestry from other places.
See: Chiang et al
"Population history of the Sardinian people inferred from whole-genome sequencing"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/12/07/092148.full.pdf
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