The berber and Scots

Internet | 17-09-2004 | Berber

[ikka]

What about Glen Rothes ? Any fans of that foine drink? I like it better than Macallan 12.

[SunkenCiv]

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Note: this topic is dated 9/17/2004. ESL. Thanks pure berber. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.

[mass55th]

Scotland’s DNA: Descended from lost tribes… and related to Napoleon

[blam]

King Tut was and R1b DNA halpotype like 68% of all other Europeans. I suspect that North Africa was populated by Caucasions at one time.

So...your suspicions are not unrealistic, IMO.

[gleeaikin]

Comment #18 has a good link. #12 was not working. It was the righteous anger of the Berber inhabitants of the Nafusa Mountains which helped turn the tide against Ghaddafi. Like Arabs before him he had tried to subvert their culture and language. I believe their language was forbidden in schools and even literature may have been banned. Perhaps our poster can clarify that. The Berbers are a bit like the Kurds being distributed in a number of countries, and no doubt causing anxiety for various governments.

I have an interesting book called “In Plain Sight: Old World Records in Ancient America,” by Gloria Farley. It includes an Appendix with a number of ancient scripts provided by the author or by linguist Dr. Barry Fell, which compare Numidian, Tifinagh, Maghrib, and other old writing. At least some of the unrest in Western Libya may be the result of Berbers wanting to retain the power they have regained.

Regarding Scots and Berbers, Scots are Celtic peoples. Old sources refer to Celt-Iberians, and Scots were Celts. Since Berbers were in Spain until they were kicked out around 1500, there are probably Berbers with Celt-Iberian blood. Also, a surprising number of Scots seem to have some traces of Neanderthal. Sean Connery looks nothing like my late husband who had the red hair, clear blue eyes and heavy boned massive body that makes me suspect he had a few Neanderthal genes. He was a definite physical type I have seen among the Scots. But like many peoples, Scots have a number of ethnic components.

[no-to-illegals]

a surprising number of Scots seem to have some traces of Neanderthal

LOL ... now me knows where me's anger comes from. me has Neanderthal genes. LOL gleeaikin. That was good and worth the read. Thank You!

[gleeaikin]

Pure Berber came in from General Chat, and I was pinged by Sunken Civ, for being on his GGG list which covers archaelogy/anthropology type topics. Also some of us became interested in the Berber situation as we followed the details of the Libyan uprising. Regarding Celts or Picts, if you look at my slightly earlier comment can you identify my husband as being one or the other?

[no-to-illegals]

A little side note. September 17th is known as Constitution Day. This purebeeber post comes in on September 17th, 2004 ... Constitution Day.

[blam]

Good book. I liked Gloria.

In Plain Sight

[blam]

New excavations to find lost Pictish kingdom

[afraidfortherepublic]

There is NO POST, written in sincere conscience, that is out of place here. I found this most interesting.

[Renfield]

Coincidentally I have been thinking along these lines myself lately. Gazing into the mirror, I realized that a lot of people of Scottish ancestry have very thick, dark, coarse, bushy eyebrows, as do many North Africans, Portuguese, and Spaniards. I suspect that at least a portion of Scottish DNA is linked to all of those others; remember, there was an ice-age refugium in western Iberia and adjacent North Africa.

[Renfield]

p.s. I know a man in DC who is half Scottish and half Berber. I bet he’d have a lot to say about this.

[Bigg Red]

I agree, and I hope the original poster made out okay. I looked at his posting history, and did not see anything beyond the original 2004 date.