[Boogieman]

“3,550 years ago the people who would become the Romans were still huddled in caves picking each other’s lice.
This makes the kid, as far as kids go and early patriarchs go, a near contemporary of Father Abraham, one way or the other by a couple of hundred years.”

Somebody on the thread gets it :)

I agree, the most likely solution is Phoenician. There might have been some proto-Celts living on the Iberian coast by then, but that’s a real long shot. Nobody else from that area, at that time, is really known to have travelled to England.

Of course, we’re talking a period of time that is basically pre-history as far as Europe goes, so there could have been some other people that was trading or colonizing that far, who we simply know nothing about.

[muawiyah]

We know a whole lot more with this discovery. He had amber. He had tooth chemistry typical of the Mediterranean. He was thus and so tall, had a head shaped this and that, and had a foot to shinbone ratio of xyz.

If we recall our Sa'ami history (prehistory) the big breakouts were about 9000 years ago ~ just long enough after the Younger Dryas for plants to get a good start throughout the formerly glaciated areas. Have to have plants to get the game animals. So this is just short of half way back. Probably not a whole lot of people around yet, and most likely virtually everybody was free of infectious disease ~ unless they brought it with them from the more heavily populated Eastern Mediterranean.