[Prolixus]

Our history is written in our DNA.

[reasonisfaith]

The Hebrew origins of the British Isles?

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[Boogieman]

“A smaller percentage are believed to retain the DNA of the earlier settlers, the builders of Newgrange whom archaeological evidence suggests were much darker skinned than the later arrivals.”

By “much darker skinned” what they actually mean is akin to olive-skinned Mediterranean types, rather than pale blond-haired or ginger Nordic types. But still, they were a related people from an early wave of migration of Indo-European speakers from Central Asia. Just like the Slavs were a subsequent wave of another related people from the same region who came to Europe a bit later.

Occasionally some non-Indo-Europeans like the Magyars and Huns tried to get in on the action too, but almost every wave of migration into Europe that was successful came from people who were already related back in their area of origin outside of Europe.

[Terry L Smith]

Newgrange is a sight to behold, especially on Winter Solstice morn, when the sunlight reaches into an interior chamber and only on that morning.

[indyman777]

So, the language started around the time of the Tower of Babel? Go figure.

[Verginius Rufus]

That Irish (Gaelic) is an Indo-European language has been known for a long time. But languages can be imposed by a small minority--Haitian Creole is derived from French but only a small percentage of the Haitian population has French ancestry.

A much smaller percentage of the men in the British Isles belong to the I haplogroup, which split from the J haplogroup (very common in the Near East) upwards of 30,000 years ago. The I haplogroup is found in the Balkans before the last glacial maximum. During the height of the Ice Age, only southern parts of Europe were inhabited such as the Balkans, Italy and the Iberian peninsula. After the Ice Age ended, men with the I-haplogroup moved north, some to Scandinavia, and their descendants may have carried the I-group to the British Isles (Hagar and his buddies). The I group remains very common today in the Balkans.

[Gay State Conservative]

later

[Albion Wilde]

bump and ping!

[Adder]

Gypsies?

[Reily]

There was a theory that they “Irish Traveler” minority were descendants of the original inhabitants of Ireland. It’s hard to believe that the Celtic migration didn’t encounter someone! The “Irish Travelers” have for want of a better term I’ll call it a “creole” called “Cant” or “Kant” (I’ve seen it spelled both ways!) which is theorized to be remnant of their native tongue heavily mixed with Irish & English.

I wonder how well that theory has held up? I wonder if there is any DNA evidence for it?