Ancient genomes from a Roca Vecchia, Apulia, shed light on Minoan modes of colonisation

[Jovialis]

If you consider trans-Adriatic admixture event bringing high steppe ancestry to South-Eastern Italy, the sample Albania_Cinamak_EBA.AG (Proto-Illyrian) is a fine candidate to serve as a proxy.

 

[Vitruvius]

If you consider trans-Adriatic admixture event bringing high steppe ancestry to South-Eastern Italy, the sample Albania_Cinamak_EBA.AG (Proto-Illyrian) is a fine candidate to serve as a proxy.

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For a two way admixture event using this sample to create a profile similar to yourself this would appear reasonable, but I would presume the historic reality is that it's more likely that the Roca-Vecchia_MBA profile was progressively diluted by Iron age and Classical era Greek newcomers in tandem with progressive and temporally differentiated arrivals of Italic ancestry from central and/or northern Italy.

 

[Jovialis]

For a two way admixture event using this sample to create a profile similar to yourself this would appear reasonable, but I would presume the historic reality is that it's more likely that the Roca-Vecchia_MBA profile was progressively diluted by Iron age and Classical era Greek newcomers in tandem with progressive and temporally differentiated arrivals of Italic ancestry from central and/or northern Italy.

Here's another model, it is similar to the EBA Albanian sample.

 

[Jovialis]

 

[Anfänger]

Preprint published today:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.15.694319v1

 

[Moja]

Conclusions

In conclusion, we show that the genetic composition of ROC006 (US2616 C), an adolescent male aged 16-17 years, is too divergent from the ones displayed by available Greek samples from a comparable period, pointing to a local rather than Aegean origin for this individual, who can be safely described as a pre-Daunian, with a slightly higher fraction of CHG/Iran_N ancestry.

 

[Jovialis]

I was accurate in my merging of the samples back in October!

PCA from study:

 

[Jovialis]

@Salento Thank you for your contributions to setting them up, we were able to produce a PCA of the findings before the study was published.