U5a2b would seem more of Greek origin, considering that it is more in southern Italy above all Sicily, Calabria and Puglia or more Roman (Latin colonization)?
U5a2b has been found in Bronze Age Hungary and in a Scythian.
https://www.researchgate.net/public...ata/58c73e4a458515478dbf829b/srep43950-s2.xls
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/pstorage-tf-iopjsd8797887/10347336/SupplementalFile3.xlsx
My mtdna is U5a2b5 and my maternal ancestry is from Cattolica Eraclea, Agrigento, Sicilia, my oldest maternal ancestor I found dates to the mid 1700’s from a neighbouring village Montallegro.
U5a2b* in Italy: more Greek or Roman?
More likely Pan Italic so Roman is more probable than Greek in my opinion, maybe more ancient samples could solve this question.
https://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/u5a/u5a2/u5a2b/
I guess it depends the which branch of U5a2b.
I have 3 mtdna matches on ftdna, 1 is Sicilian and 2 are Latina.
U5a2b has been found in Bronze Age Hungary and in a Scythian.
https://www.researchgate.net/public...ata/58c73e4a458515478dbf829b/srep43950-s2.xls
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/pstorage-tf-iopjsd8797887/10347336/SupplementalFile3.xlsx
My mtdna is U5a2b5 and my maternal ancestry is from Cattolica Eraclea, Agrigento, Sicilia, my oldest maternal ancestor I found dates to the mid 1700’s from a neighbouring village Montallegro.
I'm U5a2b. Apulia, Francavilla Fontana, Brindisi/Taranto
Brindisi (Brundisium) and Taranto were both Greek and Roman colonies
Eraclea?
interesting name.
U5a2b* in Italy: more Greek or Roman?
eraclea , once was capital of the venetiEraclea?
interesting name.
eraclea , once was capital of the veneti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraclea
The first certain settlement is that one of the Opitergians, between IV and III century before Christ.
Histrian, Liburnian and Opitergians illyrians side with Pompey in the civil war.