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Great Scot!!!
13,000 years ago you could have walked from Scotland to Finland. The North Sea wasn’t there yet.
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Ice Age + Kilts = Not-so-Great Scot
This is cool...I have Orkney ancestry...The men in the family have tested out as Haploid group R1a, which shows up in high proportion in the Orkneys
Interesting quick read article on Wikipedia about how this may signal an early group settling there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_R1a_%28Y-DNA%29
would orkney have been land-connected to the modern north coast in this time period? I assume it would in fact have been ice-connected.
Hard to imagine it being anything but solid ice at that point in time regardless.