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From: "Glen Todd" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] R1b in Italy
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:20:10 -0600
In-Reply-To: <001c01c5af1e$8cd97b70$71509045@Ken1>


> I just happen to have a new paper on SE European yhaplogroups.
> It includes regions of Italy with R1b percentages: North
> central Italy 62 percent, Sardinia 22 percent, Calabria 32
> percent. I am impressed at these high levels. Now if we

Speaking strictly from a historical perspective, this is not all that
surprising. Groups such as the Goths have been regular 'visitors' to
northern Italy for at least a couple of thousand years, and no doubt many of
them stayed, or at least left a genetic 'contribution'. Also, the Legions
'integrated' many locals in the parts of Europe that they occupied, some of
whom came back to Rome either for training or as citizens. (Hermann of
Cherusci was one of the more illustrious examples - one that they
undoubtedly regretted.) I was there on vacation about fifteen years ago,
and there's a rather obvious ethnic gradient from north to south that seems
to correspond to this distribution.

Glen

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