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Timeline and accurate genetic composition of the samples
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...33/unknown.png
Am I getting this right? Is that early iron age individual from Croatia that mysteriously resembled so much Bergamo/Lombardy samples consistent with belonging to the same population as Iron age Italians?
https://i.imgur.com/x3ksZ0c.png
See, I said early Romans would be SW Europeans. I'm repeating it for months here: Southern Europe was once mostly Iberian/North Italian like. Look at how Anatolian admixture decreased and other components increased with the passage from Republican to Imperial Era.
The most EEF/Anatolian admixed mainland Euros are the North Italians and Iberians.
Also I'm skimming throughout the supplementary info and suspiciously enough in the models they have for post Imperial age Rome including medieval ones they don't seem to consider Iron age samples as a possible source for the more recent samples and their shift back north, they seem to only use foreign sources which seems quite naive to me, it's very possible that much of iron age genetic structure survived outside of the most populated areas of central Italy, maybe from north Italy itself.
Haplogroup analysis
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...41/unknown.png
There is also a noticeable decrease in R1b haplogroups
I think that there is another study that's coming and that will evaluate that. I think they are over-estimating the Northern/Central input definitely.
I think that in the South there are also relict from Italic people. Like the area around Cosenza. But also other inland areas.