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Take a look at this interesting link I found online (ignoring the provocative title): https://www.quora.com/How-Middle-Eastern-are-Italians-in-culture-genetics-language-and-phenotype

Posts 18 and 20 above by Vitruvius cover all this well. We are certainly partly descend from IA Etruscans in modern north and central Italy. Nobody claims that Etruscans were completely, 100%, superseded by other ethnic groups.

The IA Etruscans were much like their IA Latin neighbours, despite the linguistic difference. Both IA Latins and IA Etruscans had higher WHG than any modern Italian region (excepting modern Sardinia).

Interestingly, the Emperor Augustus divided Northern Italy into Transpadana, Venetia et Histria, Liguria and Aemilia. There was no more mention of Gallia Cisalpina.

Quite a few ancient calculators give me Illyrian.

R1b-heavy versus R1a-heavy?

Proof of this astonishing claim, please.

Surely Hellenistic Greek females were much more important than Iberian females, at 35-60%.

The FBI TV series never refers to MENA people as "Caucasians"but calls them "Middle Eastern".

Doesn't the U.S. police force refer to people who are Middle Eastern/MENA as being separate from "Caucasians" of European origin?

I wonder why the East Eurasian elements are stronger around the west and south coasts of Turkey than in the interior? Better climate?

High modern buildings, above say 30 metres or so, are usually pretty ugly as a rule. Many European cityscapes are marred by these shapeless or badly shaped high-rise buildings towering over the older, more locally traditional, buildings..

I get the following figures @0.0108%: 46.9 pc Italy_Picene_Novilara_IA 31.2 pc Italy_Pesaro_LateAntiquity 21.9 pc Italy_Picene_Sirolo/Numana_IA

The very name Ancona comes from the Greek word "Ankon" meaning "elbow" after the shape of the surrounding territory.

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Ancona retained its own coinage with images of the Greek deity Aphrodite and the Greek language into Roman times. Nothing very Picene about that. Unlike the western Tyrrhenian coast of Italy, the eastern Adriatic coast of Italy had few good landing places apart from Apulia for seafarers like...

Ancona, on the central Adriatic coast?

Facepalm moment. Your parents count as ancestors too.

Italians can look like many nationalities but a Balkan look (not necessarily only Greek) is more common than an Iberian look.

Individual cases prove nothing. Most Italians are dark-haired and dark-eyed but blonds are most common in the Alps, even among Italian-speakers though the German-speakers of the Alto Adige (South Tyrol) are lightest, eg tennis star Jannik Sinner. In Central and North-Central Italy, Tuscany and...