>>17802092
it says "contemporaneous groups in the near east", which means imperial era middle easterners because the population in question is from the imperial era, so middle easterners

>Anyway North Italians have 10% non Steppe related CHG that Italics and Cisalpine Celts did not have.
if true it makes sense with 20% middle eastern ancestry since middle easterners are half chg/iran_n