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    Genetic study The arrival of the Near Eastern ancestry in Central Italy predates the onset of the Roman Empire

    Antonio and Moots gave us a few Latin genomes in 2019. I admit we need more than they provided.
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    Genetic study The arrival of the Near Eastern ancestry in Central Italy predates the onset of the Roman Empire

    Pesaro Late Antiquity means samples from after the period of the Republic, i.e. under the Late Empire. They are closer to the Imperial Roman samples than to the Iron age Picenes.
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    Genetic study The arrival of the Near Eastern ancestry in Central Italy predates the onset of the Roman Empire

    In the Ravasini Picenes study, most of the Pesaro Late Antiquity samples veer more towards the Eastern Mediterranean/Imperial Italy. How do we explain this?
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    Genetic study The arrival of the Near Eastern ancestry in Central Italy predates the onset of the Roman Empire

    Belisarius and Narses defeated the Ostrogoths before the Lombard invasion of AD 568. Surviving Ostrogoths were absorbed into both Byzantine and Lombard territories after 568.
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    Genetic study The arrival of the Near Eastern ancestry in Central Italy predates the onset of the Roman Empire

    The Duchy of Friuli was powerful too, providing dukes even for Benevento.
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    History Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Mediterranean, study finds

    Or Mexican. :LOL:
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    History Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Mediterranean, study finds

    Indeed you are perfectly correct. Money marries needy blue blood. For example, the Medici were rich Florentine merchants of humble origin who married penniless nobles and progressed to marrying rich nobles including French and Spanish royalty.
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    History Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Mediterranean, study finds

    I am more and more convinced that Columbus had some links to nobility since he was able to marry a Portuguese noblewoman.
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    History Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Mediterranean, study finds

    In the early 19th century, the Ligurian priest and historian Giovanni Battista Spotorno collected a large number of testimonies from contemporaries of Columbus. These are quoted as referring to Columbus as Genoese (Genuensis/Januensis) or the regional term Ligurian (Ligur). Among the names are...
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    History Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Mediterranean, study finds

    I've read in the Spanish press that a paper on the matter is coming out in late November.
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    With what ancient ethnicity do you most identify, and what has DNA told you ?

    I agree. It's full of puerile cliches and even has Numidians (North Africans) looking like caricatures of Nubians (Sub-Saharan Africans).
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    AncestryDNA Ancestry DNA Update

    I notice that Southern Italy has now become Southern Italy & the Eastern Mediterranean.
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    AncestryDNA Ancestry DNA Update

    Do you think G25 is any better?
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    AncestryDNA Ancestry DNA Update

    Look up the Ancestry.com website. The White Paper for 2024 is available there.
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    AncestryDNA Ancestry DNA Update

    Ancestry's White Paper does not state this as the basis of how they decide on admixture percentages. They rely on their well-documented Reference Samples.
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    AncestryDNA Ancestry DNA Update

    Can anybody explain this Southern Italian vibe, all paternal? My ancestors since the late 17th century seem to be mainly from north-west Tuscany. I also get this from 23andMe: My regions are: Tuscany followed, in order, by Emilia-Romagna, Sicily, Campania, Abruzzo and Veneto.
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    Genetic study The arrival of the Near Eastern ancestry in Central Italy predates the onset of the Roman Empire

    The Persian Emperors kept 2 thrones, one for themselves and one for any Roman Emperor who cared to visit the Persian Empire but not one did. Instead there were numerous Roman-Persian/Parthian Wars which drained both empires so much that the Arab expansion in the 7th century was able to destroy...
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    Genetic study The arrival of the Near Eastern ancestry in Central Italy predates the onset of the Roman Empire

    Do you mean Anatolian Neolithic or Iron Age Anatolian: genetically rather divergent populations. After all, Anatolian Neolithic is before 500BC and important as an ancestral component over most of Europe.
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    AncestryDNA Ancestry DNA Update

    There should be clear French regions like north and south but genetic testing is discouraged in France for political and social reasons.
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    AncestryDNA Ancestry DNA Update

    This looks pretty solid for you.
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