>>520961942
>a tan must be uncommon to
People who get skin cancer if they spend too much time exposed to the sun, like the Swedes. Most Swedes who manage to get a tan end up with orange/red skin, not brown/dark like Greeks because of the very white tone.

>most south italians today are a product of a total people replacement just like the greek
Sicilian Greeks ousted Levantines from the Phoenician colonies in the Western and Central Mediterranean sea. Nafrican DNA spread through females as none of the over 100 tested Punic has a Nafri Y-dna haplogroup.

>A genetic study published in PNAS in October 2023 examined the remains of 54 individuals from eighth- to fifth-century BC from the Greek Sicilian colony of Himera. The results suggest that the civilian population of Himera and the surrounding regions form a homogenous group, and are largely descended from the earlier Middle and Late Bronze Age Sicilians with minor admixtures from Iberia, the Caucasus, the Balkans and the Italian peninsula. In contrast, the main group of Himeraean soldiers appear as intermediate between the local Sicilian population and a group related to Bronze Age Aegeans, suggesting that many soldiers were plausibly the descendants of the Greek colonizers of Sicily and that intermarriage between Greeks and Sicilian locals was practiced. The rest of the Himeraean army was made up of mercenaries with ancestral origins in northern Europe, the Steppe, and the Caucasus

>A genetic study published in Nature Communications in April 2025 examined the remains of 196 individuals from 14 sites traditionally identified as Phoenician and Punic, including ones in Sicily and Sardinia. The results suggest that during the earlier stages of the Phoenician colonization, the Punic demographic expansion was primarily driven by the spread of people with Sicilian-Aegean ancestry, while Levantine Phoenicians made little to no genetic contribution to Punic settlements in the central and western Mediterranean