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Posted on 09/04/2023 11:34:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The general lack of sources about the Picts and their way of life has led to numerous assumptions over the centuries. In the eighth century, during the early medieval period, for example, historians such as the Venerable Bede thought that the Picts emigrated from areas around the Aegean Sea or Eastern Europe and that they traced descent matrilineally, through the mother's side...
In the newly published study, an international team of researchers extracted genetic information from eight human skeletons buried in two Pictish cemeteries — seven from Lundin Links and one from Balintore in modern-day Scotland...
The team was able to extract a nearly complete genome, or set of a person's genes, from one skeleton from each of the two cemeteries. Both genomes, when compared with those of other ancient and modern groups from the British Isles, "reveal a close genetic affinity to Iron Age populations from Britain," the researchers wrote in the study, but show differences as well...
From all seven Lundin Links skeletons, researchers were able to isolate mitochondrial DNA... allowing them to look into the assumption about matrilineal Picts. But none of the people whose mtDNA they analyzed shared immediate maternal ancestors, which means they "were unlikely to have been practicing matrilocality," according to the study.
The team also found that the Picts' genes persist in modern-day people who live in western Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Northumbria (a medieval kingdom that now includes parts of northern England and southeastern Scotland), indicating that, even though their culture disappeared, their genes didn't...
It's a limitation that the study presents just two genomes from individuals in cemeteries 100 miles (160 kilometers) apart, Maldonado noted, but it's still a helpful step forward.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
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I'm pretty sure someone sent this or a similar link, I've had this tab open for a period of time, and it may have been posted on FR in the past, though I didn't look very hard when I didn't find it.
Anyone with any balls in Scotland moved here long ago.
Yeah the Leftist weanies run that country. I used to be proud of my Scottish heritage, used to be.
Both Scotland and Ireland have become, in the space of a decade or so, hyper-progressive, completely beholden to the dictates of globohomo. It is quite amazing.
“Both Scotland and Ireland have become, in the space of a decade or so, hyper-progressive, completely beholden to the dictates of globohomo. It is quite amazing.”
It’s the women who elect the Socialist/Marxist politicians. :)
This is all over Twitter—migrants given housing, welfare while poor Irish are out on the street.
Northern Ireland makes sense because a lot of people from western Scotland were settled there in the 1600s (the ancestors of today's Northern Irish Protestants and of America's Scots-Irish), but Northumbria was in northeastern England, so why not in the part of Scotland just to the north of there?
Did the DNA test with Ancestry... They modify it with updated results every now and then and I’m currently 50% Irish, 47% Scottish and 3% Sweden and Denmark.
In the past I was 52% Scottish, 45% Irish and 3% Germanic...
Not sure how they come to their conclusions... But it’s pretty safe to say I’m half Irish and half Scottish... So there must be a Pict gene in there somewhere. Maybe that’s the 3%.
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Yeah, I’m just here for the Picts. Thankee for upholding the standards! :-)
Several species of small furry animals were once gathered together in a cave and grooving with a Pict.
I’m a little let down that we got all the way to post #14. :^)
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The Scots arrived from Northern Ireland.
No Norway Viking?
Ancestry DNA sorts mine at 31% Scottish, 29% Welsh, 16% Irish, 14% England & Northwestern Europe, 8% Sweden & Denmark, 2% Finland. There may be a little Pictish buried in there. If Ancestry takes the time to tease it out, I'm sure they will update the analysis.
Linguistically, I've made progress finishing the Duolingo Welsh course. I have about 25% of the Irish course and 25% of the Scot's Gaelic course complete. I have a little better affinity for Scot's Gaelic. That may be a consequence of the fractured set of Irish dialects. Welsh has 3 dialects. Most speakers can understand all 3. The Irish speaking districts are spread all over the country and each has a fairly distinct dialect.
Scot's Gaelic is based on old Irish. That comports with the arrival from Northern Ireland.
Maybe Vikings from Sweden or Denmark (via Norway)? The good news... No Limey Englishmen.
My ancient relatives either ran very fast, or the Englishmen were too polite to rape them. I’m guessing it was the latter... The English conquered the world, but they left the raping and pillaging to the French, the Irish and the Scots. That sort of tawdry exercise was beneath them.
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