[blam]

A recent DNA test indicates that my mother's DNA is native to Northern Finland. She's a Skolt Sa'ami, haplogroup V (Velda). Many of the Sa'ami are from haplogroup U5 and V and spent the harshest part of the Ice Age in the Iberian refuge in the south.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[RightWhale]

Fairbanks is norther than Helsinki. If they want to study ancient circumpolar stuff they can drive here and count wasps like the rest of us. Not much has changed.

[muawiyah]

This morning's news was about a couple of guys (either Midshipmen or Cadets) with what I took to be Scandinavian names who tried to climb up Pikes Peak to ski ~ or slide down ~ or something.

They climbed as high as they could go but couldn't slide down. The news guy said they spent the night in waist deep melted snow water.

Definitely a couple of Sa'ami ~ else they'd simply died of exposure in 20 minutes to an hour.

If anyone needs to know why folks moved North with the melting ice at the end of the Ice Age (and after the Younger Dryas) there you have it ~ they were made for that sort of life.

They could also tolerate eating seal meat which has 25 times as much iron as your average mammal, or reindeer which has 3 times as much iron. Interesting liver processes in that ~ makes your urine yellow and orange in the Spring just as the first bright sunlight filters through the gloom. Just getting you ready for the hunt!

[colorado tanker]

He expands on this by noting that the population which remained in southern Scandinavia had to contend with a totally new type of natural landscape with new animal and plant species and a totally new way of living. Those who migrated northwards followed well-known animals and living patterns.

That's my guess. They were used to hunting reindeer and other animals that grazed in the grasslands south of the ice. They just followed them north. Behind them, the land was changing and hunting probably would have been harder in the new forests.

[mtbopfuyn]

Sure, but heaven is Texas.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[CholeraJoe]

“Most people believe the earliest human settlement in the High North came from the south, but some hypotheses are exploring the possibility that they also came from the east,” he says.

At the North Pole, any direction you face is south.