[afraidfortherepublic]

It took 8 years to figure that out? I would have guessed that before reading the article. Isn't it the same for other populations, as well? (Except for the part about putting up later barriers against marriage outside the clan.)

[afraidfortherepublic]

some] Jewish men . . . travel[ed] long distances to establish small Jewish communities [by themselves]. They would settle in new lands and, if unmarried, take local women for wives. The communities might [at a later date] have been augmented by additional male travelers from Jewish source populations

It took 8 years to figure that out? I would have guessed that before reading the article. Isn't it the same for other populations, as well? (Except for the part about putting up later barriers against marriage outside the clan.) (Sorry -- my quote disappeared when posting the earlier remark.)