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Druze originate from the southeastern edge of Anatolia so if memory serves they are a bit of an intermediary population between anatolian and levantine contributions. It's pretty clear at this point that BA/IA anatolian and BA/IA levantine can be pretty clearly separated and for many historic...

I think much of the value of nation states beyond the idea that different types of people have different interests and preferred forms of governance is that it allows for the broader diversification of administrative risk. In other words if a given form of governance in one nation is...

The principle problem is how "Germanic ancestry" is being defined. What era and group of populations are we using as a reference for what qualifies as Germanic and more importantly why do we assume we have the full scope of DNA evidence for what should be considered Germanic? The Italian map...

I'll also add the low hanging fruit of Corsicans to that statement, who quite clearly derive their ancestry from North/Central Italy.

The majority of the samples seem to be a spread between Gallic and Germanic which is precisely what is reasonably expected in my opinion. It's not surprising that as time went on the Germanic/Northern European element became dominant, hence as to Bavaria's current ethnic and linguistic...

Our existing samples in Roman Italy are rather biased because Roman funerary tradition for Italian natives was cremation and had been even for many centuries prior to Rome's domination of Italy. Many of the samples inhumated, particularly in the imperial era were done so in foreign funerary...

I agree that it looks much more like a display piece than a hat.

A rather direct and easy solution to implement is to modify tax law to reflect child rearing write offs as directly proportional to your lifetime tax contribution. Income of course would be used as a proxy for intelligence, and there are many well studied correlations to this idea, but perhaps...

No significant surprise, but great data.

You may be able to use this as a way to try to locate the Greek origin of contributions in Italy as well as Italic contributions from bronze aged populations beyond the alps.

So if I understand the surface layer overview, ARGMix infers a level of ancestry isolate with a prior population in multiple more recent populations, isolates this contribution and then is able to compare the remaining differences between said isolate across our more recent population dataset...

It would generally appear that steppe and corded ware populations brought with them a plethora of diseases from Eurasia to the rest of europe, including the predecessor of the bubonic plague. This could explain the rapid depopulation of western Europe's neolithic farming populations which...

It's really hard to know what different Germanic speakers looked like in different locations during this time. I doubt they were all homogeneously Scandinavian after pushing into central Europe, although I'm sure some areas retained this profile. I don't think there's any way to definitively...

Agreed. And North/Central French at that.

Only about six cluster with modern French and this part of the PCA in turn still yet overlaps modern Germans as well as can be seen below. I really do not see it a large leap of faith to assume all or nearly all of these are actually just Germanic speakers. Could some be romanized Gauls...