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Genetics of Iron Age Italy
In 2019, a genetic study on six Latins (the Italic tribe that founded Rome), dated 900–200 BC, discovered that they had ~30-40% ‘Steppe ancestry’ (Early Proto-Indo-European), which was ~10-20% less than their Bell Beaker ancestors. So, even by the Roman Republic era, the Italic tribes were genetically different from the populations of North and Central Europe, after having intermixed with the EEF of Italy.
