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From: "Glen Todd" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] R1b in Italy
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:36:14 -0600
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> The extended and corrected Innsbruck data set may be
> informative here. Even though the Austrian data set was
> collected on the other side of the Alps from northern Italy,
> the mountains were clearly no impediment to committed
> travellers in prehistoric times. Remember that Oetzi the Ice
> Man was apparently on his way from an valley in what is today
> Italy to a transalpine destination when he was murdered near
> the crest more than 5,000 years ago.

David;

This is really complementary to my own point that there was almost never a
time when there WASN'T interchange between the Italian peninsula and the
body of western Europe, and the R1b distribution not surprisingly follows
the pattern of that interchange. I don't have an Italian map handy, but I
would bet that R1b percentage decreases along a fairly linear gradient from
north to south (possibly with a bump at Rome), as the physical distance from
the rest of western Europe increases.

Glen

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