i agree in part for northern Italy (or better North-western Italy , Veneto it's another story) but to be honest i don't think that northern european aDNA +light features were inexistent in Sicily and South Italy in general before the Normans...the Siculi were indoeuropeans of the Latin-faliscan group and the Island was reached in the ancient bronze age by the Bell Beakers from Spain that may could have brought some northern admixture :Quote:
Originally Posted by Peyrol
"We have detected here a signal of gene flow from northern Europe into Spain around 2000 B.C.We
discuss a likely interpretation. At this time there was a characteristic pottery termed ‘bell-beakers’
believed to correspond to a population spread across Iberia and northern Europe. We hypothesize
that we are seeing here a genetic signal of the ‘Bell-Beaker culture’ (HARRISON, 1980). Initial
cultural flow of the Bell-Beakers appears to have been from South to North, but the full story
may be complex. Indeed one hypothesis is that after an initial expansion from Iberia there was a
reverse flow back to Iberia (CZEBRESZUK, 2003); this ‘reflux’ model is broadly concordant with
our genetic results, and if this is the correct explanation it suggests that this reverse flow may have
been accompanied by substantial population movement."
http://www.genetics.org/content/earl...45037.full.pdf
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