That statement is belied by the more precise figure given in the text of 59.9pc (plus or minus 3.9pc) Southern European ancestry for the analysed individuals, without the outliers.
The Gretzinger paper states:
Indeed, most Hallstatt individuals fit a model of receiving all of their ancestry from Germany_Lech_MBA, with the exception of previously described southern outliers MBG004, MBG016 and northern outlier LAN001 from Alte Burg.
MBG004, MBG016, MBG017 and HOC004 had a...
Do we see some Etruscan genetic/cultural link in the Celtic paper mentioned above?
The Discussion section says:
"In this context, we highlight our finding that the earliest elite burial in the region from the central grave of the Magdalenenberg at 616 BCE, as well as his relatives, show...
The paper says "While the Hallstatt population showed highest genetic affinity to present-day French, Spanish and Belgians, the early medieval (Alemannic and Bavarian) populations of southern Germany exhibit closest resemblance to present-day Danish, northern Germans, Dutch and Scandinavians"...
So much for Carleton Coon's "Hallstatt Nordics".
The Hallstatt people were largely of a southwestern European genetic profile.
Most (not all) of the North European genetic profile came to Central Europe with the Folk Wandering Germanic tribes from Scandinavia and North Germany in the 5th/6th...
I think this is an important point.
However the low WHG in modern Northern Italy (even more further south) compared to any part of France cannot be ignored.
In an unpublished series quoted on the old Anthrogenica site by R.Rocca the Apuan Alps in NW Tuscany had 50pc R-Z56; 6.25pc of Z-36 (like myself) and another 6.25pc had R-L2.
The others, over one-third, were not R1b-U152 (no details however).
Simon_W, a poster on Eurogenes Blog in November 2019 had this take:
Ardea Latini IA @1.9351%
DEU_Lech_EBA 42.9
ITA_Grotta_Continenza_CA 31.7
ITA_Proto_Villanovan 15.3
ITA_Monte_San_Biagio_CA 10.1
Prenestini Tribe IA @ 2.2107%
DEU_Lech_EBA 59.7
Bell_Beaker_ITA 29.5...
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