From Dee's forward:

">including an unknown mitotype that was neither European
nor
(sub-Saharan)
>African, but perhaps of circum-Mediterranean origin[9].

This then could well be a native matriline, couldn't it,
existing
since
time before Columbus?"

Dee, wouldn't this be just another example of the data that seems to be
piling up for the continued existence of pockets of Iberian bees brought by
the Spanish? Seem's rather clear to me. Florida, like the South West was
Spanish.