“basque people and the possibility they have a plethora of Neanderthal genes...”
The majority of my ancestors were Spanish Basques from the Pyrenees-typical Basque rebels, they got the hell out of Dodge-came to the New World in the mid 16th and early 17th centuries-so that subject is of particular interest to me and several other family members-I’m one of the redheads with green/gray eyes in the family-red hair and light eyes are believed by some in the scientific community to have been common among Neanderthals. Some of us would gladly do the DNA tracking if there were a way to keep it out of places where it could be used in a bad way-places like 23 and Me, Ancestry.com etc...
I was disappointed when I recently learned that the Basque settlers’ yodeling in “Thunder in the Sun” was not a form of actual communication complete with town names, directions, etc. Oh, well.
But is it true that most of Spain’s small arms industry is located in the Basque country? Many Spanish pistols & shotguns have distinctly Basque tradenames; I own several.