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Well, the question, too is whether the pre-Greek population in southern Italy and Sicily was Pelasgian - there's lots of evidence pointing to this as the case. In other words even the pre-Greek people came from more or less the same Aegean orbit as the Greeks, and "the Greeks" may have grown out of this group of pre-Indo European Mediterranean stock just like the aboriginal inhabitants of Italy.
The connection with the Sea Peoples - Shekelesh/Sicily and Shardana/Sardinia, is also interesting. The Philistines are considered to be part of the Sea Peoples and there's evidence of Mycenean activity in Italy as well.
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