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I've only given it a brief look, but it appears the samples from this study derive almost exclusively from the western half of the island. The PCA is awful, but from it, the population seems to fall on a relatively simple two way cline between the Roman Imperial norms of central Italy to north...

I would be willing to bet these estimates are not terribly accurate for any population to begin with for the reasons mentioned in this thread, but I also agree with Heretolearn, in that small sample sizes can additionally have biases which are not reflected in the larger encompassing demography...

Augustus had brown hair and brown eyes as per the restored color pigmentation from the Prima Porta statue which was kept at his own family's residence and commissioned during his lifetime. There is a lot of nonsense spread by politically motivated individuals claiming Roman Emperors and high...

Thanks for posting, Tautalus. The IA Umbri cluster with the IA Etruscans/Latins exactly as one would expect. This is also a quite nice PCA which compiles a large sum of ancient Italics from other studies. It makes it abundantly clear that moderns plot in between that of their ancient...

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You're from Lombardy, no? Some overlap with Spanish and Southern French populations is fairly expected for much of northern Italy.

Mine also looks effectively the same.

Both are well within intra-ethnic norms. This particular sample seems to have a slight genetic western bias relative to Northern Italian averages, which is why Balearic islanders remain so close of a population. This slight variation is still quite typical for even many modern Adriatic based...

I decided to also run the sample against the closest twenty five modern population averages and produced a PCA using both modern and IA Italians as a reference. The sample clusters within modern northern Italian norms with the closest modern population being Italian Trentini. Additionally...

Reposted from Stefano at Genarchivist: In the study "Ancient genomics support deep divergence between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-European languages" two individuals were sampled from the Narde Necropolis: Narde, Rovigo province, Veneto Latitude: 45.027941657128856; Longitude...

That's false. From your quote claiming 6-23% Levantine PPNB ancestry the model which is referenced is Figure D. It is a simple forced 3 way admixture model with no Caucasian nor Iranian source populations as can be clearly seen. It uses Pinarbasi and Levant PPN despite the fact that these...

Using Pinarbasi - a single sample from 14,000 BC in a mixed chronology source model to infer what "pure" neolithic anatolian ancestry should look like against then contemporary or near contemporary neolithic levantines and mesopotamians while excluding neolithic caucasian references is simply...

Neolithic PPNB influence in anatolia was limited to the SE border region and not very significant. Almost all of CA/BA/IA Anatolia did not experience Levantine introgression, though it did instead experience a lot of bidirectional mixing from the Lake Van region with Proto-Armenian populations...

Druze originate from the southeastern edge of Anatolia so if memory serves they are a bit of an intermediary population between anatolian and levantine contributions. It's pretty clear at this point that BA/IA anatolian and BA/IA levantine can be pretty clearly separated and for many historic...