>>4965384by concluding that due to Neolithic migrations southern Italians "show a higher similarity with Middle Eastern and Southern Balkan populations than northern ones; conversely, northern samples are genetically closer to North-West Europe and Northern Balkan groups. The intermediate position of Volterra, between South and North Italy, is a mark of its unique Y-chromosomal genetic structure." It also keeps the debate about the origins of Etruscans open : the presence of J2a-M67* could substantiate the hypothesis of Herodotus, that of a migration from the sea of a population related to the Anatolians ; the presence of G2a-L497 could point to a more Northern European origin ; and finally, the European R1b lineages could suggest an autochtonous origin, following the theories of Dionysius of Halicarnassus.
Also, what do you mean by ancient?
