The paper tells us that since Neolithic times ancient Italians have resembled   
   Modern Italians (Sardinian, Sicilian, South, North).  By  Imperial times, some   
   foreigners from the Middle East/Caucasus and North/West(mainly Spanish or   
   Southern French related)   
    Europe showed up, but they must've either left, died out or simply been a   
   small minority , and that  Italians were still their same pre-empire selves.   
      
   A minority of the Imperial samples group around  Cypriots and where   
   Ashkenazi/Sephardic Jews would often cluster around. Such Jews are mixed with   
   European(primarily Roman era Italians and Greeks). It also does not take into   
   account that certain    
   Mediterranean populations like Druze and Turks tend to be closer to Southern   
   Europeans due to a Neolithic and Bronze/Iron Age connection(including Sea   
   People/Philistines) along with West to East migrations, here they interpret   
   everything based on    
   historical movements where its basically one way admixtures. They try to   
   connect  African to mean Sub-Saharan and Phoenicians with Sub-Saharan Africans   
   and do the same with the North-African Ibero-Maurasian(which somehow also   
   means or includes Neolithic    
   Moroccans to them)  - meanwhile the R475 sample Etruscan is no where near   
   North Africa let alone  Sub-Saharans Yoruba.  R80 and R132 are much more   
   closer to Cypriots than to North Africans.   
      
   - By the founding of Rome, the genetic composition of the region approximated   
   that of modern Mediterranean populations.    
      
   - By 900 BCE at the latest, the inhabitants of central Italy had begun to   
   approximate the genetics of modern Mediterranean populations.   
      
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