Mass rapes after fall of Roman Empire?

[MinervaItalica]

Do average Northern Italian have taller height, lighter eyes or skin than average Central or Southern Italians?

Major frequency of southerns, most likely. Centrals are an halfway.

Coastal southern areas have a sunny climate and that is a major factor to people skin color. However southerners who live between S. Appennines/mountains may have different "ligher" phenotypes I think.

[Kraftwerk]

Major frequency of southerns, most likely. Centrals are an halfway.

Southern sunny climate is a major factor to people skin color. However southerners who live between S. Appennines/mountains may have different "ligher" phenotypes I think.

What about height, facial features? They are better indicators of phenotype.

[MinervaItalica]

What about height, facial features? They are better indicators of phenotype.

What about stop derailing the thread?

[Samnium]

Major frequency of southerns, most likely. Centrals are an halfway.

Coastal southern areas have a sunny climate and that is a major factor to people skin color. However southerners who live between S. Appennines/mountains may have different "ligher" phenotypes I think.

The inland regions are less dark also because they retained Italic admixture basically. Italic people inhabited mainly the internal areas.

[Golden Lining]

Germanic people practiced apartheit with the swarthy people.

[Hajimurad]

Did mass rapes committed by Germanics tribes and Huns occurred, after weakening Rome?
I wonder if those Ostrogoth, Visigoths, Lombardians, Vandals and Huns left genetic remarks in male lineage of modern people living in Italy.

In ancient and medieval times even legitimate children have high mortality rate because of low hygiene and harsh treatment from adults. You claimed results of rape better survived childhood than legitimate children but this is totally impossible. Barbarian mixing with Romans was result of marriages, not rape.

[Rico33]

Germanic people practiced apartheit with the swarthy people.

Not true. Southern Germanic people are part Hunnic. I have even heard and read about theories that Huns introduced the R1b and reminiscent haplogroups into central and western Europe.

[Creoda]

Major sources of ancestry for Italians since the Iron Age:

1. Levantines/Anatolians from the Roman Republic/Empire (10-50%)
2. (Celto) Germanic Northern Europeans after the fall of Rome (5-25%)

[Hajimurad]

Major sources of ancestry for Italians since the Iron Age:

1. Levantines/Anatolians from the Roman Republic/Empire (10-50%)
2. (Celto) Germanic Northern Europeans after the fall of Rome (5-25%)

Very doubtful. If Italians were descendants of Levantines and Anatolians, why they don't speak Greek or Aramaic language. Majority of Levantines lived in cities, who were hard hit by epidemics and destructions. Peasantry of Roman Italy (coloni) were composed mostly of two sources: Aboriginal tribes (of Tyrrhenian, Umbro-Sabellian and Ligurian origin) and Roman colonists (mixed bunch of Latins, Sabines and Etruscans). The only immigrations, who influenced Italo-Roman population were Dorian Greek, Ostrogoth and Lombard.

[Matty74]

Weird thread