We would finally settle this "problem", no?
Even if they came from Anatolia they would cluster inside Italy(if they had minor Italic admixture). The genetic spectrum of Italy is enormous and includes people are definitely not from Europe like Sicilians.
Italians need to embrace their mixed and complex heritage which in no way changes no matter what Etruscans were.
>>3133058
Sicilians are Europeans you retarded fuck, they came from Greeks and Italics.
>>3133066
Ashkenazi Jews also come from Italics and Greeks and cluster very close to Sicilians
There's no Etruscan autosomal DNA right now, only som shitty mtDNA.
>>3133238
Some guys who made like three trading post in Sicily
>>3133244
So how did the genetic transformation of Sicily happen?
They were obviously Sardinian like people at some point in the Neolithic and Indo-European folks can in no way explain their shift towards the Middle East.
>>3133296
Are you retarded?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate_of_Sicily
>>3133296
>They were obviously Sardinian like people at some point in the Neolithic
Says who?
We have no samples from neolithic Sicily
Also Phoenicians had way more colonies in Sardinia than in Sicily
>>3133302
All Neolithic populations from Europe were homogenic in their heritage and also I do recall reading that the mesolithic population of Sicily was typical for Europe, although I can't source that right now.
>>3133322
That Near Eastern shift dates back to before the Phoenicians, it dates back to the bronze age
>>3133016
Modern Italians are brown because of Etruscans.
>>3133300
That doesn't explain at all why Sicilians are shifted toward Eastern Mediterranean populations like Greek Islanders and Cypriots. The NearEast component to Sicilians is Levantine.
>>3133541
It's almost like Sicily got colonized by Greeks en mass...
>>3133508
How do you figure that?