Sikeliot
01-31-2018, 02:45 PM
What I mean by this is the following.
Apulians are shifted toward NE Europe and are basically equivalent to southern-shifted mainland Greeks. They are not far from Maniots or the more north-shifted Aegean islanders.
People from Palermo, Agrigento, and inland central Sicily are basically the same as the Maltese: they have elevated Red Sea, East Med, etc. elements and are genetically within the range of Ashkenazim, Sephardim, and sometimes even North African Jews.
If you had to use either region as the sole "South Italy" sample in a genetic study, would you use Peloponnesian-like Apulians, or Jewish-like west-central Sicilians, knowing you had to represent everything from Abruzzo to Sicily by one sample?
Apulians are shifted toward NE Europe and are basically equivalent to southern-shifted mainland Greeks. They are not far from Maniots or the more north-shifted Aegean islanders.
People from Palermo, Agrigento, and inland central Sicily are basically the same as the Maltese: they have elevated Red Sea, East Med, etc. elements and are genetically within the range of Ashkenazim, Sephardim, and sometimes even North African Jews.
If you had to use either region as the sole "South Italy" sample in a genetic study, would you use Peloponnesian-like Apulians, or Jewish-like west-central Sicilians, knowing you had to represent everything from Abruzzo to Sicily by one sample?