Sunday, November 8, 2015

The Eerie Similarities Between Julius Caesar and Jesus Christ

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Over two-thousand years, some events happened. Tales of the events were passed down orally by common people, in societies w...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

What Is the Best and Most Accurate Ancestry Calculator (DNA Testing)?

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What Is the Best and Most Accurate Ancestry or Admixture Calculator from DNA Testing? We Review 23andme, AncestryDNA, Family Tree ...
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Monday, October 19, 2015

Toward A New Understanding of Etruscan Origins

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As this now archived thread on Anthrogenica shows , the two sides to the Etruscan debate are like ships passing in the night.  They can'...
Saturday, October 3, 2015

Berkeley's "Center for the Study of Ancient Italy" Off to an Inauspicious Start

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It started with so much promise.  A new, interdisciplinary center at a stellar university, dedicated to studying all matters ancient Italian...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Intact Samnite Tomb Discovered; Will They Recover DNA?

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With all the focus in Southern Italian history being on exotic influences (which as we've posted before make up a very small part of the...
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Sunday, August 30, 2015

The Top Ten Myths of Genetic Genealogy, Archaeogenetics, and DNA Testing (10 through 7)

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Any scientist visiting the websites or online forums of Eupedia, Anthrogenica, or Apricity (to name a few) is mortified.  The amount of shor...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Ancient DNA Provides A New Understanding of Haplogroup I2a1a M26

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Below is a map of confirmed instances of I-M26 found in prehistoric remains.  Lots of others could have potentially been added -- ancestral ...
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Monday, June 15, 2015

Allentoft Study Shows I2a1a in Bronze Age Remedello in Northern Italy

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If you've been following Ancient DNA lately, you know that Allentoft et al came out with results of eastern Bronze Age populations.  The...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

How Little We Know About Ancient DNA

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I've frequented several of the Ancient DNA discussion boards lately, and have been flummoxed by the self-important, self-promoted, self-...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Corrected European Regional Percentages (Yet Again) for I-M26 12a1a

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Some have pointed out that the early studies showing high M26 in Castile suffered from small sample sizes.  Further, more recent posts and a...
Friday, March 7, 2014

Corrected Study Confirms Even More I-M26 12a1a In Archaic Zones of Italy

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The great paper by Brisghelli, et. al., referred to and discussed extensively below, has been updated and corrected.  The updates are stunni...
Sunday, February 2, 2014

Scholars Finally Apply Some Logic (Not Mythology) To Etruscan Origins

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If you read the old Roman and Greek historians, you will notice that they mix their religions and mythology into their writing.  For example...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

EXCITING NEWS: New Study Finds Significant M26 Among South Central Italy Mountain Dwellers

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Confirms theory that M26 likely represents aboriginal Italians. In 2009, Maria Pala et al first put out the theory that YCC Hg I-M26 repre...
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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Is Y-Chromosome Haplogroup M26 Norman? The Answer Can Be Found By Resorting to Logic

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M26 is a clade of Haplogroup I on the Y Chromosome.   (It is sometimes called I2a1, but I disfavor such nomenclature, because I have lived...
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