@@iluvmusic1710 : yes us Italians were, are, and will always be geniuses. Good to see you e realized this. Thank you for your support. You are allowed to continue to eat pizza. You’re welcome 😂
@@ginoasci Famous chef Anthony Bourdain, who loved Italy, said: There are 2 types of people, those who are Italian and those who want to be Italian. But that ignores the fact that India, Greece, Egypt, Persia and China also contributed in truly astounding ways.
Selftalk of constantly broke and disorganized mediterraneans😂 but besides ingenuity, brilliance and beauty I d' add humbleness to the list of obvious traits 😉
I am an Italian from Rome and have olive skin, black hair with blue eyes. I guess I carry the hunter-gatherer gene of Italy from 6000 years ago! 😅😂 Anyway, this was the best video I have ever seen on Italy and am proud to be an Italian with such a colorful genetic history. From north to the south, we have all kinds of different looks and colors that make you wonder about the rich and tumultuous history of this country. Peace.
Plausible but there was also the Tyrsenian (Etruscan migration) almost certainly from the Aegean region, who, via Aeneas arguably were ascendants of Julius Caesar. And also those Shekelesh/Sicels (maybe proto-Phoenicians with Lebanese-like genetics, pervasive in Sicily now) who founded some other town near Rome and were arguably ascendants of the likes of Diodorus Siculus. But sure: the Vasconic hunter-gatherers also left a legacy in Italy (although it's best preserved in Sardinia).
Most of this DNA is not new. IT's prehistoric DNA. The North has a celtic influence, and the south has a greek influence. The Latins were IndoEuropeans. The R1b is from them from a long time ago. The VIkings aka Normans were mixed already when they came to Italy. They didn't leave much behind. The North African DNA is from a really long time ago.
Southern Italians have Arab and African roots due to immigration from North Africa over past 2000 years. That is why Southern Italians have darker skin tone while Northern Italians have light skin colour similar to other Europeans.
Did anyone ever consider that this man may not have been a victim, but was someone who'd committed a crime and was fleeing when the people of the village caught up to him and dispensed punishment for his crime? Just because someone or several someones killed him doesn't mean he was a good guy. Without written records, no one has any way of knowing the true story.
That’s an interesting perspective! Scientific research gives us a clearer picture of Ötzi’s death. CT scans and forensic analysis show that he died from a catastrophic injury: an arrowhead lodged in his left shoulder severed a major artery, causing him to bleed to death. He also had head trauma, possibly from a fall or an additional blow. Traces of blood from multiple individuals on his tools and clothing suggest he was in a violent altercation shortly before his death. While it’s true we can’t know his personality or motives, the evidence supports the idea that he was likely ambushed or attacked rather than fleeing from justice. Without written records, we’ll never know the full story, but the forensic evidence paints a vivid picture of his final moments.
@@TheHistoryHubs He has a very good point. Why was he alone in the first place even if he was attacked? Banishment and 'Aloneness' was/is practiced by nearly every primitive tribe as punishment for transgression. People didn't leave group safety easily and didn't even hunt alone. It has been suspected that Juana Maria the Native American woman found alone on San Nicholas Island was banished there.
I live in the U.S. but my mom’s parents are from Finland. I also had my DNA tested which showed Otzi as my descendant as well. I had no clue I had any Italian heritage at all. It’s only 9.1% 🤷♀️
Last summer I visited the museum in Bolzano where Otzi is in display with all his clothes, tools and weapons. The best part for me is not the frozen mummy but all the stuff he was carrying including an axe made of copper.
I am Canadian not Italian. After many years of research, determination and persistence my brother finally completed and published a book on the history and genealogy of our maternal ancestors. Turns out much to our surprise and delight through comparative DNA analysis that our mtDNA was compared to Otzi's mtDNA and we were a match! Our common ancestor was his mother! This realization is particularly exhilarating for me as I have recently acquired a residence in a quaint Italian village. Since learning of this new information I feel more of a sense of belonging among the beautifully warm Italian people.
You are related to Utzi? You are up there with the gods! Let me bow down at your feet. Actually, I am Italian by birth but never lived there. Wish I could afford to live there ... gorgeous place, full of heart!
I am first generation Canadian, with Italian/Etruscan heritage that goes back millenia. No one is technically Canadian or American unless you are first nations indigenous from Turtle Island. Your mindset may be Canadian but your ancestry belongs to wherever your ancestry/blood hails.
Fascinating documentary. Amazing the different genetic influeces in Italy. My grandparents came to the US from Northern Italy. And my grandma who came from Piemonte looked quite a bit like Queen Elizabeth when she got older I think they said her sister looked like the Queen when she was younger. And my grand uncle who always took trips to Italy they nicknamed Eisenhower.
I recently found out that I have 11% Italian. One site says Tuscan, another says from North, Central and Southern Italy. I'm mostly English, Irish, Scots, and Welsh, with some North African. Iberian, Basque, Greek, Roma and Jewish (Ashkenazi and Sephardic). I visited Italy with my adoptive family and loved it. I'm very happy to know I have a connection to the fascinating people and culture of Italy.
I lived in Italy for around 20 years. You cannot say that there is one Italian gene. Italians come from Gaul, Germanic, Etruscan, Roman, Greek and Arabian ancestors, and the differences are often striking.
I’m from Mexico City my wife is from Abruzzo provincial of Chieti in her family some have green eyes, light skin, we are two blended cultures Viva Italy 🇮🇹 Viva Mexico 🇲🇽
My family were Lords of Territories back in the day ..I still have family in Italy ...my maiden name is on castles...use of surnames goes back as far as 2852 BC in China all countries developed surnames for tracking ...land transfers...in the case of my maiden name it goes as far as I could find 1452. I am brown hair brown eyes...my dream is to take a trip to Italy to see my family and the castles that are in maiden name...everyone I look up either owns a business or are musicians...hockey player.... singers...it's so fascinating.
I am central southern Italian and my kids and my niece are red hair and blue eyes. I don't see that much brown eyes in Central Italy. I see blue eyes, hazel and green eyes. I believe we are mostly Greeks mixed with the keltics.
Ma quali çeltici! Le popolazioni del centro Italia sono di stirpe sabellica, (ovvero indoeuropea! Cioè con un’ origine comune ai çelti, ma non çelti! Questi sono arrivati nella pianura padana, fino a Senigallia..) Più greci ed i primi abitatori dell’Italia ovvero quelli chiamati agricoltori dell’Anatolia..
@@donatoegizii2084 La parola "sabellica" o "sannita" non ha un significato preciso in sé, ma si riferisce semplicemente ai popoli che abitavano le zone dell'attuale Molise e Abruzzo. Le radici di questi gruppi sono principalmente greche e celtiche, ma se si vuole risalire ancora più indietro, si scopre che molte delle nostre origini affondano nelle antiche tribù di Israele, espulse dagli Assiri e dai Babilonesi. Alcuni dei nostri stemmi e costumi tradizionali abruzzesi, infatti, conservano ancora simboli legati al casato di Giuda, testimoniando una connessione storica profonda.
@@roccodeluca5590NON DIMENDICARE CHE LA PROVINCIA DI BENEVENTO, IN CAMPANIA, E' CHIAMATA: SANNIO. INFATTI DOVRESTY SAPERE L'EPISODIO STORICO QUANDO I ROMANI, PER UMILIARE I SANNITI, DOPO AVERLY SCONFITTY, LI FECERO PASSSRE SOTTO LE FORCHE CAUDINE.PACE E BENE.❤😮❤😮❤😮
@@donatoegizii2084 io sono del centro italia e ho occhi verdi, sicuramente non mi sento semita e nemmeno ci tengo, sicuramente avrò origini ostrogote, di cui invece vado profondamente fiero.
My paternal haplogroup is “G2a2b2a2”from Anatolian farmers like Ötzi & my maternal haplogroup is “U5b2c2” from western hunter gatherers like Cheddar man.
We should mention the large presence of Celtic people in the padanian plane, which persisted for almost 1000 years before and during the Roman empire. Celtic DNA kept coming through the centuries, after Charlemagne invaded and set transalpine domination over the north, together with peculiar Frankish DNA. Gothic presence was also an important factor in the diversity of the Italina genome, especially after the Justinian Plague almost wiped out the Italic genome (Latin and Osco-Umbrian ancient genome is technically extinct), probably due to a high vulnerability of that strand compared to Greek, Celt and German genome. Most of the Italian Greek and anatolic Genome also comes from the Byzabtine times due to the protracted presence of the Empire through the dark age. Areas of center and south also vary a lot: Tuscany is different form the rest of the area and so is the rural area if Benevento up to Salerno, where the Lombard presence was very strong, while Puglia, Calabria and the Napolitan enclave (highly populated) has almost none.
I think he mentioned it as the Celts( probably from the haplogroup R1b-L11) were part of Bell Beaker Culture that split from the Yamnaya Proto-Indoeuropeans horse riders who swept from the Pontic Steppes to the Alps (Hallstatt first and then the later La-Tene Celtic cultural influence) and spread to Po river valley in Italy.
Incredible journey through Italy's genetic history! It’s fascinating how the past is still alive in the people today. May God's blessing guide you and everyone who watches this video on their own path of discovery.
If you're Sicilian you probably have 1-5% Semitic/Jewish DNA. There were many Jews brought to Sicily as slaves by Romans and later were there in every port as Merchants.
I'm Sicilian from both sides of my family, same town. My DNA findings are mostly southern Italy with smaller percentages from the Greek Islands, Crete, Cypress, Malta, and Spain as well.
Albanians came to southern italy and sicily but nothing was said about it. Arberesh people in particular. There are villages with mostly all albanian derived people.
The Spanish influence came after medieval times (a very long influence for sure), so this is why it was not underlined in a video talking about ancient history
@@MrDanilop45 Yet the video speaks about the Lombards,,, North Africans and other middle age influences,,then goes right to modern Italians completely skipping the Spanish influence influence which makes this information incomplete
My mom is 100 italian. She was fair with black hair and brown eyes.she has Sicilian and from around Naples.her mom had green eyes which got passed down to all my kids.my brothers and I have either green or blue eyes with sallow skin. Great skin for tanning fast.makes me wonder what my Italian ancestors a mix of what countries
Senza contare le varie tribù germaniche che periodicamente hanno invaso la penisola contribuendo alla fine dell impero,la discesa dei vari pretendenti al dominio Franchi, Longobardi,Bizantini,e nella storia più recente Spagnoli, Francesi,Austriaci ce né per tutti
My last name means “loyal” in Latin. My parents came to America (Bronx NYC) from Melilli, Sicily. Myself and my brother along with our parents have an olive tone highly responsive to the sun and we tan heavily in the summer from minor sun exposure. We all have brown eyes besides my brother, who has hazel. We all have dark brown hair, if it is wet or humid it frizzes and curls.
Melilli in the Syracuse province been there many times up on a hill very cute town. I was born and raised in Syracuse Sicily emigrated at 18 in Brooklyn NY.
@ ❤️ yes, I haven’t been back in over 10 years, I pray it’s still as a I remember. We still celebrate Patron Saint St. Sebastian Feast Day , we head over to Middletown, CT where many descendants of immigrants from Melilli live. I’ve met many originally from Floridia over here in Bronx.
@@Giuseppe_1994 when i was in middle school a guy from Melilli moved here in my town in Bergamo Province, but he only stayed 3 years and then moved away again, so i was surprised as soon as i read Melilli ahahah
It sounds like you have some semitic DNA ... All who have a wide mix of genes are healthier, more good-looking and more intelligent. Good for you and your family 👍
@@emilian7256 North Africa it's Africa and they brought for sure genes from others african region as well. Don't hide the truth from yourself, or you are not able to understand what he said?
👏👏👏 molto bello e veritiero . L'Italia e molto diversa, anche in tutto. Da italiana ringrazio, soprattutto per il superamento di stereotipi che non ci identificano. Grazie
Grazie mille per il tuo bellissimo commento! È un grande piacere sapere che il video ha rappresentato l’Italia in modo autentico e che ti ha colpito positivamente. Il superamento degli stereotipi è uno degli obiettivi più importanti del nostro lavoro. Grazie a te per aver condiviso il tuo pensiero!
I am from South-Tyrol, Italy, like Ötzi. Recently I did a DNA test: for 75% I am from the same alpine valleys where I am from. the rest is of French and German heritage
Io sono Friulana (Friuli orientale)... anni fa' ho fatto anch' io un test del DNA... il mio aplogruppo e' H1b, percentuali del 20% neolithic anatolian farmer, Nord Africa, oltre il 40 % limitrofe Spagna settentrionale/Francia meridionale.
peccato che ötzi avesse dna sardo ,,,quando i sardi millenni prima di cristo circumnavigavano l,africa e tutto il mediterraneo in quelle valli del nord i pochi abitanti vivevano ancora nelle caverne...per chi non lo sapesse la sardegna detiene il piu grande patrimonio archeologico antico di tutto il pianeta ed e uno dei popoli piu antichi di tutta europa se non il piu antico
@helenaziegler6005 buongiorno... io ho ordinato il mio kit, dalla ditta Genomia Ldt (Rep. Ceca)... tramite posta prioritaria... ottimo servizio, avevo pagato 250 €.
I've traveled throughout Southern Italy and my family heritage is from the Naples region and I have seen all different traits. Brown to light brown hair, blond hair, black hair, dark skin to light skin, blue eyes, green eyes, hazel eyes, dark eyes.
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I'm an Italian from Trieste. My ancestors are from Slovenia, Croatia etc I only have 1.6% "italian" DNA. But that doesn't make me less italian - culture and DNA are two very different things
Trust Me, These Are the 10 Greatest Countries in the History of the World Scott Baradell # 1. Italy. What can I say? Ancient Rome created what we now call “Western society” - including our laws, our culture and our religion. Classic symbols of democracy, such as the Roman Senate, inspire us to the present day. After Rome fell and Europe spent 1,000 years in darkness, Italy reclaimed it with the Renaissance. To create a civilization is achievement enough - but to save it 10 centuries later is truly remarkable.
Always felt bad for this guy such a sad and lonely death. I’ve often thought that somewhere there was a family waiting for him scanning the Horizon wondering if today would be the day he’d come home
I’ve thought the same. It’s sad to think about what his family might have gone through, waiting and wondering. It reminds me of a time when my dad didn’t come home when he was supposed to. Mobile phones weren’t a thing back then, and we later found out he’d been in a traffic accident and taken to the hospital. It took him months to recover. That uncertainty and worry are feelings you never forget
He doesn't mention that Sardinians, with the oldest hunter gatherer DNA are very light skinned and lighter haired and blue or green eyes common. So it belies the theory that the original hunter gatherers were dark skinned.
Most of sardinian DNA is ANF derived, not WHG derived. Furthermore, blue and green eyes are not uncommon in Sardinia, but blondism is very rare. Having said that, blondism was absent from Yamnaya and frequent among Scandinavian Hunter Gatherers and Funnelbeakers
Great and fascinating video! My Nonna’s family were all from Southern Italy. We are Indigenous to the Lazio and Campania region of Italy according to our DNA. We were surprised to see 15 percent Turkey and the Caucus DNA. This helps make sense of where it came from. Thank you!
"3000 years on... they will find my body... and carry out my revenge on your descendants", maybe Ötzi's last words? Anyway, I've decided to call him Otso (Wolf in Basque) because he surely spoke Vasconic, whose only living descendant is Basque, and it surely sounds similar enough to Ötzi.
@LuisAldamiz Thank you for adding your addition regarding living descendants from the Basque region (I call them Basque Country) instead of the Pureness country! My Grandfather was Basque who grew up in California. My question to you.... Are you Basque? If so am trying to follow our family tree. Would appreciate a reply concerning the Basque culture. Thank you.
@@elizabethhicker3252 - Yes, I'm Basque (of mixed ancestry, also partly Italian and Castilian, product of repeated conquests) and I live in Bilbao, Biscay. I don't know how to reply to your question because it's very broad and generic. In any case I've been personally researching the origins of Basques (and by extension Europeans and all Humanity to one extent or another) and I can tell you that our very ancient culture must have originated and spread with the mainline European Neolithic of Anatolian roots (i.e. Çatalhöyuk was made by the "stay behind" Vasconics, the Lady of Lions is clearly Gaia/Mari and Gaia still translates in Basque as "the matter" and "the capability", what is a perfect name for Mother Earth). These ancient Vasconics (Vasconic-1 in my slang, with Ötzi-like or Sardinian-like genetics) settled Europe by two routes: the continental one via the Balcans and into Central Europe and the maritime one via Italy and then into Western Europe all the way to Scotland and Denmark/Southern Sweden eventually (with dolmenic megalithism after reaching the Atlantic). The core settlement of most Europe lasted only some 1000 years. There was some sort of extra admixture with Western Hunter-Gatherers (directly observed in Sweden, less clearly but very likely also in the Basque Country, more honest research is needed) and these secondary Vasconics (Vasconic-2 in my slang) produced (in relation with Bell Beaker culture, oldest in SW Europe) the Basques and closely related populations like ancient Iberians (essentially Basques in terms genetic and with a closely affiliated language) or the Insular Celts (whose becoming Celtic is probably only from the Iron Age). More research is needed but some is being done already and the cultural and linguistic relation between pre-Roman Sardinians and us is amazing, even if we have much greater WHG admixture. Izan zirelako gara, izan garelako izango dira. For what they were we are, for what we are they will be.
I watched your video and it was well produced and maps were excellent. However, I am wondering where you got your DNA admixtures for modern Italy. Yes there is a cline from North to Central to South (Sicily included) with Sardinia being a genetic isolate due to high Anatolian Neolithic Farmer DNA (Early European Farmer source). Several papers in the last 8 years I think should be noted. First, Sazzini et al 2016 "Differential genomic background and disease susceptibility along the Italian peninsula". Figure 1 in that paper shows 4 clusters, North Italy, Central Italy South Italy (Sicily included) and Sardinia. Figure 2 plots the Italian Clusters and Central Italy actually overlaps with the South (Campania, Sicily, Calabria, Puglia and Basilicata) and North Clusters (Emilia, Piedmonte, Liguria, Lombardy, Veneto, etc), showing the most genetic variability (Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Marche and Abruzzo). Figure 3 has the admixture models. Raveane et al 2019 "Population structure of modern-day Italians reveals patterns of ancient and archaic ancestries in Southern Europe" uses ancient DNA source populations to model modern Italy (See Figure 2: Ancient North African, East Asian, Anatolian Neolithic, Western European HG, Eastern European HG, Caucus HG and Iran-Neolithic). The results from the paper show 3 Clusters, Sardinia, North-Central Italy and South-Central Italy and Sicily. All Italian and populations show high Anatolian Neolithic which would be similar to Otzi's genome. From the paper "In the ultimate analysis, all the Italian clusters were characterized by relatively high amounts of Anatolian Neolithic (AN) contributions, ranging from 56% (SItaly1) to 72% (NItaly4),distributed along a north-south cline (Spearman = 0.52, P < 0.05; Fig. 2, A to C, fig. S5A, and data file S3), with Sardinians showing values above 80%, as previously suggested" Figure 2 also shows the admixture models with the Yellow (Anatolian Neolithic) being the dominate source population for all modern Italian populations. The cline from the North to South to Sardinia can be explained by higher Steppe-admixture, proxied for using the Eastern European HG genome (Blue) in the North vs additional Iran_Neolithic and CHG in the South. Cheers
The last documentary I saw on Otzi was a couple of years ago. They felt that Otzi was murdered as they found evidence that he took an arrow in the back. The evidence was an arrow cut into one of his bones.
I'm not Italian but Italians are an underrated European tribe. Their creativity, the best hair dryers, best cars, best beds, best harnesses, best glasses, best hanggliders, everything you can think of, Italians shine. They are indeed the modern Romans. It's a shame they let their DNA mix with the slaves and soldiers during Roman times, that took their edge. They still top 7 economy.
@@LaurenMartins I'm Italian and you know nothing of History or DNA. Arabs OWNED ITALY for centuries and the Romans didn't have to "Mix" with anybody. Arabs came and "Mixed" with Romans. Greeks owned Italy for Centuries. The Spanish owned Italy for centuries. Ancient Rome itself had people from all over the world even free Black African people. One was Emperor. Italians today have DNA from cultures you have no idea about. Racist comment.
I'm of Italian origin, Southern (Calabria), blonde hair, green eyes, 5"11", very light complexion skin, most people think I'm either German or Eastern European - parents with dark hair, green and brown eyes. My brother and sister are the same as me. I think the key words in this video is that "scientists found", they give no exact numbers as to how representative the findings are. I think you could take a DNA sample in New Orleans today, the name of the city would imply French origin and DNA samples that suggest a strongly African population? The actual % of the US population that's of African decent is 13%. Videos like this don't say a whole lot and if anything create a confusing picture and reinforce certain perceptions without knowing enough. This is the problem with DNA science, a scientist finds a link and then you get the folks in this video who try to generalize that finding.
@@mariosandri4010 assimilate? Like the massacre of greeks in south Italy? Ahahahhaa you dont wanna know what we did to Gauls (not celtics in the north tho) ahahaha you clearly only read Mickey Mouse… go back to it
Very interested about Italian DNA in human timelines in Italy including Sardina and Sicily. A lot of my paternal ancestors and my maternal ancestors came from Campina Province where Naples, Italy (Napoli, Italia) is in my D'Auria-Doria Family Tree in longer blueblood lines in my ancestral lineage. Otherwise I am the Second-Generation Southern Italian-American citizen in my D'Auria Family on American soil. Recently the DNA testing results have shown that I have: H1 in maternal DNA and H7 in maternal DNA, and RIB in paternal DNA in a fact. My close paternal uncle who was my family physician with his Ph.D. and M.D. had had told me that our ancestors lived in Rome, Italy (Roma, Italia) for a very, very, long times then both of Central and Southern Italy including Sicily were influenced by ancient Greek civilization--Manga Gerica (Greater Greece) before the Roman Empire began to rule over Europe, North Africa, and Middle East. Well, I strongly have my ties to Italy including Sardina and Sicily as part of Italian Culture, Italian-American Culture, Italian Heritage, and Italian-American Heritage in nature. Now I am glad to hear that bright light finally comes here to me.
Not a single video I've watched on this subject has pronounced his nickname correctly. This one has Otzi instead of Ötzi. The ö is pronounced like the noun in British English 'bURn' but with rounded lips. German has the following two words: schon (already) and schön (beautiful). Österreich is the name Austrians use for their country.
@ichnusanonesteitalia6890 etnicamente no. Ma forse saprai che gli Italiani non sono una etnia. Siamo un mix di diverse "razze". Non siamo mai stati una singola etnia, neppure i Romani lo erano.
@ichnusanonesteitalia6890 anzi, essere Italiani significa condividere una cultura, non lo stesso sangue. In questo senso, sei più Italiano di noi del continente.
video a little ignorant, civilization in the Italian peninsula was not born with the Etruscans, but in Sardinia with the Nuragic civilization, we should study better
the problem is, they have no clue about the nuragi, how they build it and much more, so they don'z mention it! the same with Puma Punku, or same giant structure in Japan, China, Russia!
it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zito_(famiglia)#:~:text=La%20famiglia%20Zito%20%C3%A8%20una,di%20Sant'Agata%20di%20Militello. Sono siciliani di origine normanna
My great aunt was a Terzo and married Zitto. My aunt was born in Sicily, she was the oldest of 8 children. My grandfather was number five and the last one born in Sicily. The last 3 were born in Colorado and Los Angeles.
I note the way Otzi’s arm is laid straight across him. That is how I would pull a very painful shoulder straight across my upper body and often support it from underneath cradled in my good arm. After years of agony I got a shoulder replacement. Before😮 I knew of the arrow head😅😮 injury I knew he had died nursing his painful left shoulder. Poor man. Whether he was a victim or a fleeing fugitive he has given us a wealth of knowledge about those times. Even to the Lyme disease and hardening of the arteries.
I'm from Calabria (Gabella, Lamezia Terme). I have very fair skin, brown hair and brown eyes. My grandfather had grey eyes, my grand mother was dark. Half of my cousins have green, blue and grey eyes. What are we?
I too am an Italian from Rome living in New York with olive skin salt and pepper hair and blue eyes and I'm also a hunter and A gatherer as a child my mother told me I was always investigating the Wilderness and looking for treasure building things with my hands eating fruits and berries from the wilderness learning to forage naturally I too am proud of my heritage I'm proud to be an Italian
I definitely hope that the ancestry of Sardinia doesn't get destroyed by being flooded like the old rest of Europe with African oriental whatever illegal
i’m first generation sicilian and citizen of Italy. It’s so interesting that city state mentality still exists after the Fall of Rome and eventual unification
sometimes huge groups in those times and from roman empire till middle age also where dying in masses and its regions where replaced, so we have to be very carefull with those things to interprete or say that region was 3000 years ago with this or that tribe ;) And you can imagine that romans made no big difference from specific tribes, you can see now after having genetic tests in Hallstatt/Lathene time where all people called keltic or raetian....now we know that raetian where close related to etruscan and that keltic where not a ethnic monotone tribe but many tribes with similar culture living close and etc. etc. sometimes also regions just where named after first tribe they met there, or because this specific tribe had most influence in that region....finally you can say it was like europeans came to americas and call northern Inuit, Mayas, Inkas or Aztheks as indians.....and when conquering azthekes or Mayas, they just sometimes noticed, that this people lived under rules by aztekes, but had very different aspects, language or cultures. So imagine they say you have indian ancestors you go to amazonas and want to find your roots....but later ur DNA reveals u are canadian cherokee or whatever..... ;)
Erased 2000 years ago like the greeks in south Italy, didnt end well both cases Italics never saw the gauls with good eyes but the celtics up north were allies The germanics tribes gave em the coup the grace after the Romans left…
@@astanco1574 greeks disappeared 2000 years ago ahahahha study please, doesnt even make sense how the ellenic empire (another different race) can still be in italy 🤣🤣🤣🤣
…Nevermind. Ignore that one comment I made on your Germany video lol. Anyway, my farter (er…I mean father’s) family is mostly from Campania, but my paternal grandfather’s family is from the foot and tip of the boot. I’m surprised that I didn’t inherit his olive complexion and curly hair, though my hair is fluffy and dark lol. I’m also short like a lot of Italian women.
Well, I read someplace that about half of the residents of the city of Rome were slaves. When the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the 5th Century, what happened to these slaves (& other slaves in the countryside or other cities and towns.) Did they assimilate with the general population or were they suppressed and mostly killed or what?
@@panterone1769 -- Well, that means that Italians in general and Italian-Americans in particular are entitled to reparations due to the descendants of slaves.
due to continued sackings, sieges and widespread destruction before, during and after the gothic war Rome was more or less abandoned in early middle ages, only few hundreds inhabitants remained. It slowly repopulated in time but remained a somewhat small city until italian unification, when becoming the capital city attracted many new inhabitants in particular from surrounding central italian regions.
You have completely forgotten the Gauls and even turned Milano into a roman name, while it's celtic: very inaccurate! Where are the Veneti? The Ligurians? There are of course many good parts and I understand it's difficult to condensate everything in 25 minutes, but some mistakes could have been avoided.
@@luigibenni3449 This is a falsity. Mediolanum was founded by the Ligurians ,in the middle of the wast forest where they had a sanctuary. At the time of the foundation, the Celts were still scrambling in the Asian steppes !
My last name is Geracc. I am Calabrese from Polistena, Reggio Calabria. I researched our name on my own suspecting it was Greek in origin. It is. It means raptor or falcon. The word died out in Italian being replaced by falcone. l later found out that the word sitll exists in modern greek γεράκι (geraki) for falcon. As the Greeks say: "Una faccia una razza" Same face, same race. .
I forgot to mention that the cognomi (last names) sorace, versace liberace, etc. all have their origins in the Mezzogiorno (Southern Italy) which is Magna Graecia so they are probably of Greek origin just like Gerace. It would be intersting if someone xould tease out the underlyaing Greek which I have not worked out yet.
I don't thinks modern day Italians or ancient Romans had this obsession with "race"/ancestry. They were focused on culture and civilization. Eastern Mediterranean migrants and others settled in Rome( they did a dna test on Pompei with the people having Anatolian/eastern roots). During the collapse of the Byzantine empire, many refugees also came to Italy. Migrating people form the east, north and south blending with the native population.
my maternal grandfather was from Tremosine on Lake Garda - my three kids are all recessive genes - my two sons have sandy blond/brown hair, blue eyes, fair-to-golden skin, and red beards - while my daughter has curly light brown hair, olive skin, and hazel dark green & brown eyes
Once I was in a US airport and a group of fine people were sitting around, I was wondering where they were from, I look at them they look at me, till they start talking and I discovered we were both Italians...
no, there was paralel people in the east starting those civilizations, indeed they started to stay in one place for longer time, no more nomadic hunting, they started to make huge settlements, wars and destroying the earth, more and more wiping out plants and animals.....till now. All is relative, , the chinese, also people around Hindus, and maybe even around indonesia there was paralel civilisations like that, and still we dont know if the first of those kind cames also to Anatolia...but more sure is, onnew thing is coming, and those people found another new thing and it is interchanging till a point....and seems that those farmers who came where mostly indo-european language, but also some like closer to semitic languages like etruscan and raetian and maybe others....but languages are not a genetic thing but is passed over.....but the first civilisations around anatolia/mesopotamia we know today was not indo-european speakers....so we have to investigate much more to say something like this ;)
@@damaslpressath If other civilizations had been equivalent, they would not have shut themselves up in their own backyard. The Chinese, in the 13th century came to Africa, then returned home and destroyed ships because the government deemed foreign lands irrelevant.
Recently my father went back to Sicily and had time to investigate our roots. Found a family of arms, thousands of families that trace back hundreds of years! Our traced back to Liguria, sailors/traders that settled in Sicily. From Liguria, rooted from Etruscan and Phoenician. Fascinating stuff!!
I'm very proud of my Italian heritage.. the most innovative beautiful people on earth.. well.. the Greeks too
They really were geniuses
@@iluvmusic1710 :
yes us Italians were, are, and will always be geniuses.
Good to see you e realized this.
Thank you for your support.
You are allowed to continue to eat pizza.
You’re welcome 😂
@@ginoasci
Famous chef Anthony Bourdain, who loved Italy, said:
There are 2 types of people, those who are Italian and those who want to be Italian.
But that ignores the fact that India, Greece, Egypt, Persia and China also contributed in truly astounding ways.
Selftalk of constantly broke and disorganized mediterraneans😂 but besides ingenuity, brilliance and beauty I d' add humbleness to the list of obvious traits 😉
@ : you have a very peculiar way of offering up compliment.
I think.
I am an Italian from Rome and have olive skin, black hair with blue eyes. I guess I carry the hunter-gatherer gene of Italy from 6000 years ago! 😅😂 Anyway, this was the best video I have ever seen on Italy and am proud to be an Italian with such a colorful genetic history. From north to the south, we have all kinds of different looks and colors that make you wonder about the rich and tumultuous history of this country. Peace.
Plausible but there was also the Tyrsenian (Etruscan migration) almost certainly from the Aegean region, who, via Aeneas arguably were ascendants of Julius Caesar. And also those Shekelesh/Sicels (maybe proto-Phoenicians with Lebanese-like genetics, pervasive in Sicily now) who founded some other town near Rome and were arguably ascendants of the likes of Diodorus Siculus. But sure: the Vasconic hunter-gatherers also left a legacy in Italy (although it's best preserved in Sardinia).
Most of this DNA is not new. IT's prehistoric DNA. The North has a celtic influence, and the south has a greek influence. The Latins were IndoEuropeans. The R1b is from them from a long time ago. The VIkings aka Normans were mixed already when they came to Italy. They didn't leave much behind. The North African DNA is from a really long time ago.
You might be of African decent... ...don't get confused.....you're black African...
Instead I have green eyes, white skin, and light hair, so I have ostrogoth ancestors and I'm proud of it.
Southern Italians have Arab and African roots due to immigration from North Africa over past 2000 years. That is why Southern Italians have darker skin tone while Northern Italians have light skin colour similar to other Europeans.
Did anyone ever consider that this man may not have been a victim, but was someone who'd committed a crime and was fleeing when the people of the village caught up to him and dispensed punishment for his crime? Just because someone or several someones killed him doesn't mean he was a good guy. Without written records, no one has any way of knowing the true story.
That’s an interesting perspective!
Scientific research gives us a clearer picture of Ötzi’s death.
CT scans and forensic analysis show that he died from a catastrophic injury: an arrowhead lodged in his left shoulder severed a major artery, causing him to bleed to death.
He also had head trauma, possibly from a fall or an additional blow. Traces of blood from multiple individuals on his tools and clothing suggest he was in a violent altercation shortly before his death.
While it’s true we can’t know his personality or motives, the evidence supports the idea that he was likely ambushed or attacked rather than fleeing from justice.
Without written records, we’ll never know the full story, but the forensic evidence paints a vivid picture of his final moments.
Blood on his knife 🤔
I’ve considered that as well and would anticipate something like that being one likely scenario.
@@TheHistoryHubs He has a very good point. Why was he alone in the first place even if he was attacked? Banishment and 'Aloneness' was/is practiced by nearly every primitive tribe as punishment for transgression. People didn't leave group safety easily and didn't even hunt alone. It has been suspected that Juana Maria the Native American woman found alone on San Nicholas Island was banished there.
Thought this many times over... what if he was a thief, pervert, murderer?
Speculation is all just nonsense, we can never know.
I'm DNA tested Ozis descendant and interesting enough my relatives live 60 miles up into the Italian Alps same region for over 500 years 😮!
I am Greek and I tested Otzi descendant
I live in the U.S. but my mom’s parents are from Finland. I also had my DNA tested which showed Otzi as my descendant as well. I had no clue I had any Italian heritage at all. It’s only 9.1% 🤷♀️
European Hillbillies 💐👍🏾
I am Peruvian and my dna tested Otzi descendant Greetings from Switzerland
Otzi wax sterile, 100 % sterile, he could not reproduce. Maybe his relatives but not the Otzi himself are your distant ancestors.
Italian DNA is the best. Italy is the best ccountry in der World, with the very old history and Culture. I love my Italian Land and im proud of Italy.
Modest too.😊
@pennypiper7382 yes, you're right, I was still too modest, I wanted to hold back a bit 😂
chi se loda se sbroda....
Typical italian arrogant 😔
Italians are mutants!!!...(with the fictional "Michelangelo)))) - in other words - GREEKS!)))
Last summer I visited the museum in Bolzano where Otzi is in display with all his clothes, tools and weapons. The best part for me is not the frozen mummy but all the stuff he was carrying including an axe made of copper.
I was in Bolzano on a Monday and the museum was closed. Sounds like a fabulous exhibit. Godda go back
It's called Bozen, Südtyrol! Südtyrol is NOT Italy!
@@allanprimeau7864Indeed, however it is still Italy. Tough.
@@allanprimeau7864 cope
@@allanprimeau7864 What's your point Bro ?
My father is from sicily and my mother is from norway This was so cool
I am proud of my Campanian heritage. A blend of Italic , Greek and Anatolian blood.
Not Anatolian , the real is Armenian
I am Canadian not Italian. After many years of research, determination and persistence my brother finally completed and published a book on the history and genealogy of our maternal ancestors. Turns out much to our surprise and delight through comparative DNA analysis that our mtDNA was compared to Otzi's mtDNA and we were a match! Our common ancestor was his mother! This realization is particularly exhilarating for me as I have recently acquired a residence in a quaint Italian village. Since learning of this new information I feel more of a sense of belonging among the beautifully warm Italian people.
You are related to Utzi? You are up there with the gods! Let me bow down at your feet. Actually, I am Italian by birth but never lived there. Wish I could afford to live there ... gorgeous place, full of heart!
I am first generation Canadian, with Italian/Etruscan heritage that goes back millenia. No one is technically Canadian or American unless you are first nations indigenous from Turtle Island. Your mindset may be Canadian but your ancestry belongs to wherever your ancestry/blood hails.
His story survived! The other villagers who killed him are forgotten.
It is a complete fabrication. This is a short.....joke 😮
Fascinating documentary. Amazing the different genetic influeces in Italy. My grandparents came to the US from Northern Italy. And my grandma who came from Piemonte looked quite a bit like Queen Elizabeth when she got older I think they said her sister looked like the Queen when she was younger. And my grand uncle who always took trips to Italy they nicknamed Eisenhower.
I recently found out that I have 11% Italian. One site says Tuscan, another says from North, Central and Southern Italy. I'm mostly English, Irish, Scots, and Welsh, with some North African. Iberian, Basque, Greek, Roma and Jewish (Ashkenazi and Sephardic). I visited Italy with my adoptive family and loved it. I'm very happy to know I have a connection to the fascinating people and culture of Italy.
My husband’s paternal line is from Palermo, Sicily. Their original name is Pintopano, some changed to Penepent in upstate New York.
@10:20 ...we have a saying in Italy whenever we speak about our Greek "cousins", which is: > meaning > ...
più che altro è in grecia che lo dicono
I lived in Italy for around 20 years. You cannot say that there is one Italian gene. Italians come from Gaul, Germanic, Etruscan, Roman, Greek and Arabian ancestors, and the differences are often striking.
Arab? Not really
@@B1GuD0G@B1GuD0G Hannibal invaded Italy in 218 BC and needed 15 yeast to send him back...
@@B1GuD0G Hannibal invaded Italy in around 211 BC and needed 15 years to send him back. The Saracens occupied Sicily from 827 to 902.... I ca go on.
You left out HEBREW. Sicillians are from Israel...
Yes they are@@B1GuD0G
Thanks!
Thank you so much 😊
I’m from Mexico City my wife is from Abruzzo provincial of Chieti in her family some have green eyes, light skin, we are two blended cultures Viva Italy 🇮🇹 Viva Mexico 🇲🇽
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Chicano ...
Awesome 👍 my father is from there💯🇮🇹
What a brilliant video ! Fantastic pictures, amazing narrator❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
I like this type of videos you're making. I'm very interested to see about the Greek DNA at some point!
Thank you so much! I’ll definitely create one on Greek genetic history as well. Currently, I’m working on Norway.
My family were Lords of Territories back in the day ..I still have family in Italy ...my maiden name is on castles...use of surnames goes back as far as 2852 BC in China all countries developed surnames for tracking ...land transfers...in the case of my maiden name it goes as far as I could find 1452. I am brown hair brown eyes...my dream is to take a trip to Italy to see my family and the castles that are in maiden name...everyone I look up either owns a business or are musicians...hockey player.... singers...it's so fascinating.
Proud Sicilian here. I carry my DNA with pride as it’s the only DNA life has gifted me with.
Credo che il DNA degli Italiani sia molto misto.
I am central southern Italian and my kids and my niece are red hair and blue eyes. I don't see that much brown eyes in Central Italy. I see blue eyes, hazel and green eyes. I believe we are mostly Greeks mixed with the keltics.
Ma quali çeltici! Le popolazioni del centro Italia sono di stirpe sabellica, (ovvero indoeuropea! Cioè con un’ origine comune ai çelti, ma non çelti! Questi sono arrivati nella pianura padana, fino a Senigallia..) Più greci ed i primi abitatori dell’Italia ovvero quelli chiamati agricoltori dell’Anatolia..
@@donatoegizii2084
La parola "sabellica" o "sannita" non ha un significato preciso in sé, ma si riferisce semplicemente ai popoli che abitavano le zone dell'attuale Molise e Abruzzo. Le radici di questi gruppi sono principalmente greche e celtiche, ma se si vuole risalire ancora più indietro, si scopre che molte delle nostre origini affondano nelle antiche tribù di Israele, espulse dagli Assiri e dai Babilonesi. Alcuni dei nostri stemmi e costumi tradizionali abruzzesi, infatti, conservano ancora simboli legati al casato di Giuda, testimoniando una connessione storica profonda.
@@roccodeluca5590NON DIMENDICARE CHE LA PROVINCIA DI BENEVENTO, IN CAMPANIA, E' CHIAMATA: SANNIO. INFATTI DOVRESTY SAPERE L'EPISODIO STORICO QUANDO I ROMANI, PER UMILIARE I SANNITI, DOPO AVERLY SCONFITTY, LI FECERO PASSSRE SOTTO LE FORCHE CAUDINE.PACE E BENE.❤😮❤😮❤😮
@@donatoegizii2084 io sono del centro italia e ho occhi verdi, sicuramente non mi sento semita e nemmeno ci tengo, sicuramente avrò origini ostrogote, di cui invece vado profondamente fiero.
complete nonsense
My paternal haplogroup is “G2a2b2a2”from Anatolian farmers like Ötzi & my maternal haplogroup is “U5b2c2” from western hunter gatherers like Cheddar man.
Which DNA test you do? If you don’t mind me asking.
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Familytreedna 🧬. I took the Big Y 700 dna test & MTdna test.
Who cares?
@@massimilianomencacci2510 I care, it is very interesting. You should go back to watching cartoons.
@@massimilianomencacci2510 Maleducato.
We should mention the large presence of Celtic people in the padanian plane, which persisted for almost 1000 years before and during the Roman empire.
Celtic DNA kept coming through the centuries, after Charlemagne invaded and set transalpine domination over the north, together with peculiar Frankish DNA.
Gothic presence was also an important factor in the diversity of the Italina genome, especially after the Justinian Plague almost wiped out the Italic genome (Latin and Osco-Umbrian ancient genome is technically extinct), probably due to a high vulnerability of that strand compared to Greek, Celt and German genome.
Most of the Italian Greek and anatolic Genome also comes from the Byzabtine times due to the protracted presence of the Empire through the dark age.
Areas of center and south also vary a lot: Tuscany is different form the rest of the area and so is the rural area if Benevento up to Salerno, where the Lombard presence was very strong, while Puglia, Calabria and the Napolitan enclave (highly populated) has almost none.
You said a whole lot, so specifically what Haplogroups are you taking about? I have Celtic decent from RCT-241 haplogroup.
😂😂
I think he mentioned it as the Celts( probably from the haplogroup R1b-L11) were part of Bell Beaker Culture that split from the Yamnaya Proto-Indoeuropeans horse riders who swept from the Pontic Steppes to the Alps (Hallstatt first and then the later La-Tene Celtic cultural influence) and spread to Po river valley in Italy.
Incredible journey through Italy's genetic history! It’s fascinating how the past is still alive in the people today. May God's blessing guide you and everyone who watches this video on their own path of discovery.
Yes, but it's supposed to be about Otzi, not the general population of Italy
I am Italian and Sicilian and I am from old DNA . Had a DNA test and found many surprises from it . Thanks for this video
Thanks for your comment!
Did your DNA test results confirm the findings in our video?
I'd also like to know if your DNA test confirmed the findings of this video.
Yeah, I’m curious.
If you're Sicilian you probably have 1-5% Semitic/Jewish DNA. There were many Jews brought to Sicily as slaves by Romans and later were there in every port as Merchants.
I'm Sicilian from both sides of my family, same town. My DNA findings are mostly southern Italy with smaller percentages from the Greek Islands, Crete, Cypress, Malta, and Spain as well.
Utterly fascinating, thank you.
Albanians came to southern italy and sicily but nothing was said about it.
Arberesh people in particular. There are villages with mostly all albanian derived people.
I love how this video completely skips over the Spanish influence in Italy especially in the south,,, the names of cities,language and surnames!!!
The Spanish influence came after medieval times (a very long influence for sure), so this is why it was not underlined in a video talking about ancient history
I never heard anyone say, they are a Spanish Italian from Italy . Sorry.
@@stevenpeluso7670 Never heard of Italians from Italy named Steven either!!!
you are right there are still cities with a strong Spanish influence alghero for example in which Catalan is still spoken fluently nowadays
@@MrDanilop45 Yet the video speaks about the Lombards,,, North Africans and other middle age influences,,then goes right to modern Italians completely skipping the Spanish influence influence which makes this information incomplete
My mom is 100 italian. She was fair with black hair and brown eyes.she has Sicilian and from around Naples.her mom had green eyes which got passed down to all my kids.my brothers and I have either green or blue eyes with sallow skin. Great skin for tanning fast.makes me wonder what my Italian ancestors a mix of what countries
Through millennia, the Italian peninsula has been the melting pot of Europe, similar to the USA today as a global melting pot.
Al sud tanti hanno gli occhi chiari nell anno 1000 arrivarono i normanni che erano vichinghi stanziati in Normandia quindi scandinavi
Senza contare le varie tribù germaniche che periodicamente hanno invaso la penisola contribuendo alla fine dell impero,la discesa dei vari pretendenti al dominio Franchi, Longobardi,Bizantini,e nella storia più recente Spagnoli, Francesi,Austriaci ce né per tutti
Same..Naples ..I have dark hair ,brown eyes ,very light skinned ,but we also have blue eyes in other family
@@vickie30no one cares
Very interesting thank you for sharing 👏🏻👍☘️🌿
My last name means “loyal” in Latin. My parents came to America (Bronx NYC) from Melilli, Sicily. Myself and my brother along with our parents have an olive tone highly responsive to the sun and we tan heavily in the summer from minor sun exposure. We all have brown eyes besides my brother, who has hazel. We all have dark brown hair, if it is wet or humid it frizzes and curls.
Melilli in the Syracuse province been there many times up on a hill very cute town. I was born and raised in Syracuse Sicily emigrated at 18 in Brooklyn NY.
@ ❤️ yes, I haven’t been back in over 10 years, I pray it’s still as a I remember. We still celebrate Patron Saint St. Sebastian Feast Day , we head over to Middletown, CT where many descendants of immigrants from Melilli live. I’ve met many originally from Floridia over here in Bronx.
@@Giuseppe_1994 when i was in middle school a guy from Melilli moved here in my town in Bergamo Province, but he only stayed 3 years and then moved away again, so i was surprised as soon as i read Melilli ahahah
It sounds like you have some semitic DNA ... All who have a wide mix of genes are healthier, more good-looking and more intelligent. Good for you and your family 👍
@@ConstanceSlaninawhat are you trying to say? That the Semitic makes people more intelligent or more just greedy and mercantile?
Interesting. Italy is a true melting pot. Never knew so many Italians had Greek, Middle Eastern and African ancestry.
The "african" is exaggerated, most of our mediterranean dna is from aegean and levant... like cyprus, anatolia, lebanon. No Ghana dna
Dont believe all this BS you are being conned !
@@emilian7256 North Africa it's Africa and they brought for sure genes from others african region as well. Don't hide the truth from yourself, or you are not able to understand what he said?
👏👏👏 molto bello e veritiero . L'Italia e molto diversa, anche in tutto. Da italiana ringrazio, soprattutto per il superamento di stereotipi che non ci identificano. Grazie
Grazie mille per il tuo bellissimo commento! È un grande piacere sapere che il video ha rappresentato l’Italia in modo autentico e che ti ha colpito positivamente. Il superamento degli stereotipi è uno degli obiettivi più importanti del nostro lavoro. Grazie a te per aver condiviso il tuo pensiero!
Per me lo stereotipo e’ un invenzione Hollywoodiana. Che imbarazzo.
Hello 👋 from USA 🇺🇸 proud to be half Italian 🙏🏼🎄💪🇺🇸
I am from South-Tyrol, Italy, like Ötzi. Recently I did a DNA test: for 75% I am from the same alpine valleys where I am from. the rest is of French and German heritage
Io sono Friulana (Friuli orientale)... anni fa' ho fatto anch' io un test del DNA... il mio aplogruppo e' H1b, percentuali del 20% neolithic anatolian farmer, Nord Africa, oltre il 40 % limitrofe Spagna settentrionale/Francia meridionale.
@@AleBorgo118 io sono di Ferrara, la famiglia di mio padre visse qui sin dal 1600. Sono curiosa di fare un test genetico, quale mi consigliate?
@@helenaziegler6005helena ziegler, classico nome e cognome italiano ahahhahaa
peccato che ötzi avesse dna sardo ,,,quando i sardi millenni prima di cristo circumnavigavano l,africa e tutto il mediterraneo in quelle valli del nord i pochi abitanti vivevano ancora nelle caverne...per chi non lo sapesse la sardegna detiene il piu grande patrimonio archeologico antico di tutto il pianeta ed e uno dei popoli piu antichi di tutta europa se non il piu antico
@helenaziegler6005 buongiorno... io ho ordinato il mio kit, dalla ditta Genomia Ldt (Rep. Ceca)... tramite posta prioritaria... ottimo servizio, avevo pagato 250 €.
Beautiful people, best FOOD, best art , best songs , best singers......best wine .... humble 💖
Now I'm in the mood for spaghetti.
That does it, now I'm going for the antipasto, parmesan cheese and a bottle of Pinot Grigio ......😃😃😃
That does it, now I'm going for the antipasto. the parmesan cheese and a bottle of pinot Grigio... 🤗🤗🤗😃😃😃😃
That does it, now I'm going for the antipasto, the parmesan cheese and the Pinot Grigio . 😃😃😃
Spaghetti 🍝 😋sounds perfect as a summon of this video
😂😂😂👍 ho appena finito di mangiare un piatto di spaghetti ai frutti di mare, un saluto da Roma 🙋
Interesting video. I love being Greek, my ancestors left their marks deeply on civilization.
I've traveled throughout Southern Italy and my family heritage is from the Naples region and I have seen all different traits. Brown to light brown hair, blond hair, black hair, dark skin to light skin, blue eyes, green eyes, hazel eyes, dark eyes.
Neapoli also Nea Poli in Greek meaning New City.
And made your country and it's ancestry:
They came, they conquered and their lasting effect on Britain is still visible to this day. From ancient forts, roads and walls, to villas, palaces and spas, discover Britain’s Roman legacy. By Penelope Rance
Technology, architecture, language, government, town planning - even a sense of national identity. The depth of the Roman influence on the British Isles was such that it survives to this day, seemingly unmatched by that of any of the invading forces that followed them. But then, the majority of those invaders, and the subsequent ruling elites, wanted nothing better than to be Roman themselves.
These heirs to the Roman ideal - Saxons, Danes, Normans, Plantagenets, Tudors, Georgians and Victorians - all tried to establish Britain as part of a wider empire, drawing on the example set by those first imperial overlords.
Their efforts to regain the military glory and sheen of civilisation shaped the history of these islands, which took their first steps towards unity in 43AD. For more than anything else, the Romans left Britainnia with the sense of what it is to be British, in the oldest meaning of the word.
How exciting! I share some of his DNA!😊
I'm an Italian from Trieste. My ancestors are from Slovenia, Croatia etc I only have 1.6% "italian" DNA. But that doesn't make me less italian - culture and DNA are two very different things
you are balkan, probably tall over 1.8m
@gibememoni 😅 sadly not
I'm Australian Slovenian! I've been to Trieste ❤ beautiful place
@@paulglusic6665 me veseli:)
So fascinating, thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
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# 1. Italy. What can I say? Ancient Rome created what we now call “Western society” - including our laws, our culture and our religion. Classic symbols of democracy, such as the Roman Senate, inspire us to the present day. After Rome fell and Europe spent 1,000 years in darkness, Italy reclaimed it with the Renaissance. To create a civilization is achievement enough - but to save it 10 centuries later is truly remarkable.
Great video, thank you very much...I am Italian from my father's side and yes, the paternal haplogroup is G2, somehow like Ötzi...
Always felt bad for this guy such a sad and lonely death. I’ve often thought that somewhere there was a family waiting for him scanning the Horizon wondering if today would be the day he’d come home
I’ve thought the same. It’s sad to think about what his family might have gone through, waiting and wondering.
It reminds me of a time when my dad didn’t come home when he was supposed to.
Mobile phones weren’t a thing back then, and we later found out he’d been in a traffic accident and taken to the hospital.
It took him months to recover. That uncertainty and worry are feelings you never forget
I’m a descendant of Otzi. I never knew it until I had my DNA tested.
Same ☺️
He doesn't mention that Sardinians, with the oldest hunter gatherer DNA are very light skinned and lighter haired and blue or green eyes common. So it belies the theory that the original hunter gatherers were dark skinned.
Most of sardinian DNA is ANF derived, not WHG derived. Furthermore, blue and green eyes are not uncommon in Sardinia, but blondism is very rare. Having said that, blondism was absent from Yamnaya and frequent among Scandinavian Hunter Gatherers and Funnelbeakers
Very interesting.
Thank you for sharing. 🌿
Glad that you enjoyed it. Thank you for watching!
Great and fascinating video! My Nonna’s family were all from Southern Italy. We are Indigenous to the Lazio and Campania region of Italy according to our DNA. We were surprised to see 15 percent Turkey and the Caucus DNA. This helps make sense of where it came from. Thank you!
Complimenti per il filmato, raramente ho visto e ascoltato documentari cosi corretti e rispettosi della realtà, grazie di cuore
"3000 years on... they will find my body... and carry out my revenge on your descendants", maybe Ötzi's last words?
Anyway, I've decided to call him Otso (Wolf in Basque) because he surely spoke Vasconic, whose only living descendant is Basque, and it surely sounds similar enough to Ötzi.
@LuisAldamiz Thank you for adding your addition regarding living descendants from the Basque region (I call them Basque Country) instead of the Pureness country! My Grandfather was Basque who grew up in California. My question to you.... Are you Basque? If so am trying to follow our family tree. Would appreciate a reply concerning the Basque culture. Thank you.
@@elizabethhicker3252 - Yes, I'm Basque (of mixed ancestry, also partly Italian and Castilian, product of repeated conquests) and I live in Bilbao, Biscay.
I don't know how to reply to your question because it's very broad and generic. In any case I've been personally researching the origins of Basques (and by extension Europeans and all Humanity to one extent or another) and I can tell you that our very ancient culture must have originated and spread with the mainline European Neolithic of Anatolian roots (i.e. Çatalhöyuk was made by the "stay behind" Vasconics, the Lady of Lions is clearly Gaia/Mari and Gaia still translates in Basque as "the matter" and "the capability", what is a perfect name for Mother Earth).
These ancient Vasconics (Vasconic-1 in my slang, with Ötzi-like or Sardinian-like genetics) settled Europe by two routes: the continental one via the Balcans and into Central Europe and the maritime one via Italy and then into Western Europe all the way to Scotland and Denmark/Southern Sweden eventually (with dolmenic megalithism after reaching the Atlantic). The core settlement of most Europe lasted only some 1000 years.
There was some sort of extra admixture with Western Hunter-Gatherers (directly observed in Sweden, less clearly but very likely also in the Basque Country, more honest research is needed) and these secondary Vasconics (Vasconic-2 in my slang) produced (in relation with Bell Beaker culture, oldest in SW Europe) the Basques and closely related populations like ancient Iberians (essentially Basques in terms genetic and with a closely affiliated language) or the Insular Celts (whose becoming Celtic is probably only from the Iron Age).
More research is needed but some is being done already and the cultural and linguistic relation between pre-Roman Sardinians and us is amazing, even if we have much greater WHG admixture.
Izan zirelako gara, izan garelako izango dira. For what they were we are, for what we are they will be.
I watched your video and it was well produced and maps were excellent. However, I am wondering where you got your DNA admixtures for modern Italy. Yes there is a cline from North to Central to South (Sicily included) with Sardinia being a genetic isolate due to high Anatolian Neolithic Farmer DNA (Early European Farmer source). Several papers in the last 8 years I think should be noted. First, Sazzini et al 2016 "Differential genomic background and disease susceptibility along the Italian peninsula". Figure 1 in that paper shows 4 clusters, North Italy, Central Italy South Italy (Sicily included) and Sardinia. Figure 2 plots the Italian Clusters and Central Italy actually overlaps with the South (Campania, Sicily, Calabria, Puglia and Basilicata) and North Clusters (Emilia, Piedmonte, Liguria, Lombardy, Veneto, etc), showing the most genetic variability (Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Marche and Abruzzo). Figure 3 has the admixture models.
Raveane et al 2019 "Population structure of modern-day Italians reveals patterns of ancient and archaic ancestries in Southern Europe" uses ancient DNA source populations to model modern Italy (See Figure 2: Ancient North African, East Asian, Anatolian Neolithic, Western European HG, Eastern European HG, Caucus HG and Iran-Neolithic). The results from the paper show 3 Clusters, Sardinia, North-Central Italy and South-Central Italy and Sicily. All Italian and populations show high Anatolian Neolithic which would be similar to Otzi's genome. From the paper
"In the ultimate analysis, all the Italian clusters were characterized by relatively high amounts of Anatolian Neolithic (AN) contributions, ranging from 56% (SItaly1) to 72% (NItaly4),distributed along a north-south cline (Spearman = 0.52, P < 0.05; Fig. 2, A to C, fig. S5A, and data file S3), with Sardinians showing values above 80%, as previously suggested" Figure 2 also shows the admixture models with the Yellow (Anatolian Neolithic) being the dominate source population for all modern Italian populations. The cline from the North to South to Sardinia can be explained by higher Steppe-admixture, proxied for using the Eastern European HG genome (Blue) in the North vs additional Iran_Neolithic and CHG in the South.
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The last documentary I saw on Otzi was a couple of years ago. They felt that Otzi was murdered as they found evidence that he took an arrow in the back. The evidence was an arrow cut into one of his bones.
This video offers a scientifically accurate and scenically pleasing summary of the origins of Italians starting from the most ancient prehistory.
Thank you so much ☺️
I'm not Italian but Italians are an underrated European tribe. Their creativity, the best hair dryers, best cars, best beds, best harnesses, best glasses, best hanggliders, everything you can think of, Italians shine. They are indeed the modern Romans. It's a shame they let their DNA mix with the slaves and soldiers during Roman times, that took their edge. They still top 7 economy.
Racist comments.
@@rhondakiblinger7339 the reality is not racist, it's just reality.
You forgot to mention the Italian clothes and also the Italian shoes which are still the best in the world. I'm Greek, not Italian.
Hang gliders??
@@LaurenMartins I'm Italian and you know nothing of History or DNA. Arabs OWNED ITALY for centuries and the Romans didn't have to "Mix" with anybody. Arabs came and "Mixed" with Romans. Greeks owned Italy for Centuries. The Spanish owned Italy for centuries. Ancient Rome itself had people from all over the world even free Black African people. One was Emperor. Italians today have DNA from cultures you have no idea about. Racist comment.
Fabulously educational thank you
I’m not Italian, but I carry the same haplogroup as Otzi.
Fascinating information!
I'm of Italian origin, Southern (Calabria), blonde hair, green eyes, 5"11", very light complexion skin, most people think I'm either German or Eastern European - parents with dark hair, green and brown eyes. My brother and sister are the same as me. I think the key words in this video is that "scientists found", they give no exact numbers as to how representative the findings are. I think you could take a DNA sample in New Orleans today, the name of the city would imply French origin and DNA samples that suggest a strongly African population? The actual % of the US population that's of African decent is 13%. Videos like this don't say a whole lot and if anything create a confusing picture and reinforce certain perceptions without knowing enough. This is the problem with DNA science, a scientist finds a link and then you get the folks in this video who try to generalize that finding.
Dennis Hopper explained it perfectly in "True Romance "
Never believe Hollywood! Unless you are a liberal.
What about the Celts in Italy
@@CarolHill-o7b erased 2000 years ago, study history woulve helped
@@sleepyjoe8256 conquered and assimilated, not erased. Understanding history would help
Is Celtic germanic people.. the Longobardi
@@mariosandri4010 assimilate? Like the massacre of greeks in south Italy? Ahahahhaa you dont wanna know what we did to Gauls (not celtics in the north tho) ahahaha you clearly only read Mickey Mouse… go back to it
@@mariosandri4010you clearly only read Mickey Mouse ahahha go back to it
Very interested about Italian DNA in human timelines in Italy including Sardina and Sicily. A lot of my paternal ancestors and my maternal ancestors came from Campina Province where Naples, Italy (Napoli, Italia) is in my D'Auria-Doria Family Tree in longer blueblood lines in my ancestral lineage. Otherwise I am the Second-Generation Southern Italian-American citizen in my D'Auria Family on American soil. Recently the DNA testing results have shown that I have: H1 in maternal DNA and H7 in maternal DNA, and RIB in paternal DNA in a fact. My close paternal uncle who was my family physician with his Ph.D. and M.D. had had told me that our ancestors lived in Rome, Italy (Roma, Italia) for a very, very, long times then both of Central and Southern Italy including Sicily were influenced by ancient Greek civilization--Manga Gerica (Greater Greece) before the Roman Empire began to rule over Europe, North Africa, and Middle East. Well, I strongly have my ties to Italy including Sardina and Sicily as part of Italian Culture, Italian-American Culture, Italian Heritage, and Italian-American Heritage in nature. Now I am glad to hear that bright light finally comes here to me.
I Doria o Dori non sono greci ben si albanesi antichi,vissuti vicino a Morea polepones,
Not a single video I've watched on this subject has pronounced his nickname correctly. This one has Otzi instead of Ötzi. The ö is pronounced like the noun in British English 'bURn' but with rounded lips. German has the following two words: schon (already) and schön (beautiful). Österreich is the name Austrians use for their country.
Ötzi was normally in austria.. but.. what are borders, they change just thruogh political wars
Since Otzi had Italian blood... we should call him "Giancarlo". 🤣🤣🤣
Just joking.
@@danielefabbro822 dna sardo ,,percio niente di italiano dal momento che noi sardi etnicamente non siamo italiani
@ichnusanonesteitalia6890 etnicamente no. Ma forse saprai che gli Italiani non sono una etnia.
Siamo un mix di diverse "razze".
Non siamo mai stati una singola etnia, neppure i Romani lo erano.
@ichnusanonesteitalia6890 anzi, essere Italiani significa condividere una cultura, non lo stesso sangue.
In questo senso, sei più Italiano di noi del continente.
Thanks! I learned a lot about my family history...!
video a little ignorant, civilization in the Italian peninsula was not born with the Etruscans, but in Sardinia with the Nuragic civilization, we should study better
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@@panterone1769 il riso del melograno🤣🤣
the problem is, they have no clue about the nuragi, how they build it and much more, so they don'z mention it! the same with Puma Punku, or same giant structure in Japan, China, Russia!
I can find no other source that claims the Italian surname Zito is Arabic in origins. Peculiar
I grew up in montreal..i knew some zitos!!
it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zito_(famiglia)#:~:text=La%20famiglia%20Zito%20%C3%A8%20una,di%20Sant'Agata%20di%20Militello. Sono siciliani di origine normanna
My great aunt was a Terzo and married Zitto. My aunt was born in Sicily, she was the oldest of 8 children. My grandfather was number five and the last one born in Sicily. The last 3 were born in Colorado and Los Angeles.
Wow! What an informative video of my roots. Well researched and put together.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You came through! Grazie!
Hope you enjoyed it!
@TheHistoryHubs Very much, thanks for the great content
I note the way Otzi’s arm is laid straight across him. That is how I would pull a very painful shoulder straight across my upper body and often support it from underneath cradled in my good arm. After years of agony I got a shoulder replacement. Before😮 I knew of the arrow head😅😮 injury I knew he had died nursing his painful left shoulder. Poor man. Whether he was a victim or a fleeing fugitive he has given us a wealth of knowledge about those times. Even to the Lyme disease and hardening of the arteries.
I'm from Calabria (Gabella, Lamezia Terme). I have very fair skin, brown hair and brown eyes. My grandfather had grey eyes, my grand mother was dark. Half of my cousins have green, blue and grey eyes. What are we?
A European mix.
I too am an Italian from Rome living in New York with olive skin salt and pepper hair and blue eyes and I'm also a hunter and A gatherer as a child my mother told me I was always investigating the Wilderness and looking for treasure building things with my hands eating fruits and berries from the wilderness learning to forage naturally I too am proud of my heritage I'm proud to be an Italian
Be careful where you park
was hoping to learn a bit more about otzi than you covered.
Love the narrator!
I definitely hope that the ancestry of Sardinia doesn't get destroyed by being flooded like the old rest of Europe with African oriental whatever illegal
i’m first generation sicilian and citizen of Italy. It’s so interesting that city state mentality still exists after the Fall of Rome and eventual unification
What happened to the Cisalpine Gauls in northern Italy?
sometimes huge groups in those times and from roman empire till middle age also where dying in masses and its regions where replaced, so we have to be very carefull with those things to interprete or say that region was 3000 years ago with this or that tribe ;) And you can imagine that romans made no big difference from specific tribes, you can see now after having genetic tests in Hallstatt/Lathene time where all people called keltic or raetian....now we know that raetian where close related to etruscan and that keltic where not a ethnic monotone tribe but many tribes with similar culture living close and etc. etc. sometimes also regions just where named after first tribe they met there, or because this specific tribe had most influence in that region....finally you can say it was like europeans came to americas and call northern Inuit, Mayas, Inkas or Aztheks as indians.....and when conquering azthekes or Mayas, they just sometimes noticed, that this people lived under rules by aztekes, but had very different aspects, language or cultures. So imagine they say you have indian ancestors you go to amazonas and want to find your roots....but later ur DNA reveals u are canadian cherokee or whatever..... ;)
@Horahce-q2g8u For the moment, Italians haven't intermarried with many strangers like you think. Italy is not France, nor England.
We are here still,but now we speak latin and some celtic words survives in our dialect.
Erased 2000 years ago like the greeks in south Italy, didnt end well both cases
Italics never saw the gauls with good eyes but the celtics up north were allies
The germanics tribes gave em the coup the grace after the Romans left…
@@astanco1574 greeks disappeared 2000 years ago ahahahha study please, doesnt even make sense how the ellenic empire (another different race) can still be in italy 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Both parents are from Italy. Saw my maternal T-2 gene but didn’t see my dads E-M183 group. Oh well…still a fascinating vid!!!
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A quality production.
THANK YOU 👍❤
Many thanks!
❤😊awesome thank you
…Nevermind. Ignore that one comment I made on your Germany video lol.
Anyway, my farter (er…I mean father’s) family is mostly from Campania, but my paternal grandfather’s family is from the foot and tip of the boot. I’m surprised that I didn’t inherit his olive complexion and curly hair, though my hair is fluffy and dark lol. I’m also short like a lot of Italian women.
Apologies if I missed your earlier comment! Could you kindly remind me?
U deserve a sticker you brave creature
@@TheHistoryHubsno, you were already working on the video when I commented. Don’t worry about it.
@@mikei7498for what? Calling my dad my farter because he doesn’t stop farting? 😂
Ma chi lo dice che siamo basse?
Roman and Egyptian history are most interesting than any other…
Nothing like the Greek history ,it’s the most fascinating like the geek architecture,no one beats that ,
Well, I read someplace that about half of the residents of the city of Rome were slaves. When the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the 5th Century, what happened to these slaves (& other slaves in the countryside or other cities and towns.) Did they assimilate with the general population or were they suppressed and mostly killed or what?
Si assimilavano.
@@panterone1769 -- Well, that means that Italians in general and Italian-Americans in particular are entitled to reparations due to the descendants of slaves.
due to continued sackings, sieges and widespread destruction before, during and after the gothic war Rome was more or less abandoned in early middle ages, only few hundreds inhabitants remained. It slowly repopulated in time but remained a somewhat small city until italian unification, when becoming the capital city attracted many new inhabitants in particular from surrounding central italian regions.
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You have completely forgotten the Gauls and even turned Milano into a roman name, while it's celtic: very inaccurate! Where are the Veneti? The Ligurians? There are of course many good parts and I understand it's difficult to condensate everything in 25 minutes, but some mistakes could have been avoided.
@astanco1574 Mediolanum was the latinization of gaelic Medhelan, in the middle of the plain. Most of place names in the region are of gallic origin
He also speaks of roles diverse races but not all who lived in Rome were Roman's. Many didn't have their Roman citizenship who lived in rome.
Sapresti darmi informazioni di questa caratura riguardo a Torino invece?
@@luigibenni3449
This is a falsity. Mediolanum was founded by the Ligurians ,in the middle of the wast forest where they had a sanctuary. At the time of the foundation, the Celts were still scrambling in the Asian steppes !
@ezzovonachalm9815 well, 2400 years ago, the celtic people were already settled over most of Europe, not Asia.
My last name is Geracc. I am Calabrese from Polistena, Reggio Calabria. I researched our name on my own suspecting it was Greek in origin. It is. It means raptor or falcon. The word died out in Italian being replaced by falcone. l later found out that the word sitll exists in modern greek γεράκι (geraki) for falcon. As the Greeks say: "Una faccia una razza" Same face, same race. .
I forgot to mention that the cognomi (last names) sorace, versace liberace, etc. all have their origins in the Mezzogiorno (Southern Italy) which is Magna Graecia so they are probably of Greek origin just like Gerace. It would be intersting if someone xould tease out the underlyaing Greek which I have not worked out yet.
But otzi didn't just simply fall asleep. He was killed. Shot in the back by arrow probably while trying to escape people hunting him
He might have shot himself. Shooting migration birds high in the sky and one arrow returns to the bowman
@@peetsnort Hahahahaha. good one. !!!
all my grandparents, some aunts and uncles are from Italy and Sicily. we made and ate the best food, and were all skilled creative people
Other aspect … why does everyone think Otsize is “Italian” in origin … why not “Austrian” or “Ostigoth”?
Nao polis. New city. My surname Iannaccone descends from the Greeks.
Beautiful video
I don't thinks modern day Italians or ancient Romans had this obsession with "race"/ancestry. They were focused on culture and civilization. Eastern Mediterranean migrants and others settled in Rome( they did a dna test on Pompei with the people having Anatolian/eastern roots). During the collapse of the Byzantine empire, many refugees also came to Italy. Migrating people form the east, north and south blending with the native population.
my maternal grandfather was from Tremosine on Lake Garda - my three kids are all recessive genes - my two sons have sandy blond/brown hair, blue eyes, fair-to-golden skin, and red beards - while my daughter has curly light brown hair, olive skin, and hazel dark green & brown eyes
Once I was in a US airport and a group of fine people were sitting around, I was wondering where they were from, I look at them they look at me, till they start talking and I discovered we were both Italians...
Italy was not a distinct country until 1868. It was regions, city states and principalities.
apart the fact that italy had been the first country in europe to become a nation in the year 27 BCE under augustus. next time follow the topic
Recently done a dna test and I’m proud to say I’m 9% Italian . Greetings from Liverpool
Ciao!
Neolithic Anatolian farmer, people founder of world civilization
no, there was paralel people in the east starting those civilizations, indeed they started to stay in one place for longer time, no more nomadic hunting, they started to make huge settlements, wars and destroying the earth, more and more wiping out plants and animals.....till now. All is relative, , the chinese, also people around Hindus, and maybe even around indonesia there was paralel civilisations like that, and still we dont know if the first of those kind cames also to Anatolia...but more sure is, onnew thing is coming, and those people found another new thing and it is interchanging till a point....and seems that those farmers who came where mostly indo-european language, but also some like closer to semitic languages like etruscan and raetian and maybe others....but languages are not a genetic thing but is passed over.....but the first civilisations around anatolia/mesopotamia we know today was not indo-european speakers....so we have to investigate much more to say something like this ;)
@@damaslpressath If other civilizations had been equivalent, they would not have shut themselves up in their own backyard. The Chinese, in the 13th century came to Africa, then returned home and destroyed ships because the government deemed foreign lands irrelevant.
Etrusco non e semitico@@damaslpressath
@@astanco1574of course! Don't make confusione! Anatolica people of MESOLITIC periodo are not the same of today Turkish people!
Illyrian Pellazgiian Arbër Alban the oldest people in Europe 🦅
Recently my father went back to Sicily and had time to investigate our roots. Found a family of arms, thousands of families that trace back hundreds of years! Our traced back to Liguria, sailors/traders that settled in Sicily. From Liguria, rooted from Etruscan and Phoenician. Fascinating stuff!!
Poor guy never had pizza or pasta
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What is the type of blood type O type a type B I can’t find out can somebody find out? Thank you.❤❤❤