[muawiyah]

Which means people move around ~ and lurking in the background they swap the girls with neighboring tribes, and you do that long enough even under stable conditions the mitochondrial DNA is going to travel a long distance.

There is an historic record of Middle Eastern types (Greeks) relocating to France to the Rhone valley in fact, and moving North and West to Gascony.

It seems they've found 'em!

Next, Hannibal invades Europe!

[blam]

This is the last paragraph from the article linked in post #2:

"This study again confirms the amazing absence of haplogroup V from the ancient Basques, in significant contrast to contemporary Basques."

This haplogroup 'V' is suppose to be the ancient source of 52% 'V' in the Skolt Sa'ami. Hmmmmm...