People of the ancient Mediterranean world were a pretty mixed bag (honestly, in most of Europe, N. Africa, and W. Asia) -- still are. You can find blondes and redheads in the Middle East through Afghanistan; brunettes in Sweden and Scotland. This was the case in historical times as well. This is likely as the result of pre-iron age migrations and the like -- the Eurasian and N. African landmass appeared to be the site of a lot of human population migrations.
And there were likely even some Sub-Saharan Africans in the anciet Meditteranean world. There are accounts of ambassadors from Rome in China. There are what appear to be Hellenistic cultural artifacts in the artwork of India.
And according to the latest historical analysis, it appears as though the Germanic tribes didn't really get into the rapey mcslashy after they toppled the empire -- they seem to have lived rather side by side in separate groups in a fairly peaceable fashion much of the time (with some possibly intermixing, but not on a grand scale). But comparatively speaking, they were probably never that genetically far apart -- both come from the same stone age groups that initially came into the area. R1b is the common haplotype for both populations. R1a is the most common once you get east of Germany (with I1a in Scandanavia); east and south of Italy, J becomes more prevalent (it appears in Italy as well. So, I would consider I and J to be your real demarcations.
People of the ancient Mediterranean world were a pretty mixed bag (honestly, in most of Europe, N. Africa, and W. Asia) -- still are. You can find blondes and redheads in the Middle East through Afghanistan; brunettes in Sweden and Scotland. This was the case in historical times as well. This is likely as the result of pre-iron age migrations and the like -- the Eurasian and N. African landmass appeared to be the site of a lot of human population migrations.
And there were likely even some Sub-Saharan Africans in the anciet Meditteranean world. There are accounts of ambassadors from Rome in China. There are what appear to be Hellenistic cultural artifacts in the artwork of India.
And according to the latest historical analysis, it appears as though the Germanic tribes didn't really get into the rapey mcslashy after they toppled the empire -- they seem to have lived rather side by side in separate groups in a fairly peaceable fashion much of the time (with some possibly intermixing, but not on a grand scale). But comparatively speaking, they were probably never that genetically far apart -- both come from the same stone age groups that initially came into the area. R1b is the common haplotype for both populations. R1a is the most common once you get east of Germany (with I1a in Scandanavia); east and south of Italy, J becomes more prevalent (it appears in Italy as well. So, I would consider I and J to be your real demarcations.