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Until recently, he said, it had been believed that farming arrived incrementally in Scotland, around 3,000 years ago, by a process of slow and gradual adoption, by women, of new techniques. But their recent DNA research suggests something quite different, he said: that it arrived quickly via young male immigrants from what is now Germany.

These young men, he said, brought brand-new techniques with them, planting grass-derived crops that could be turned into porridge and fed to young children. This new improved food production reduced the period, argued Moffat, that the hunter-gatherer mothers had to devote to breast-feeding, and thus increased their fertility. This led to a population explosion, he said, laying the seeds of a recognisable society in northern Britain. "It is a revelation. Porridge, and I'm not joking about this, is absolutely crucial to our history."

1 posted on 08/22/2012 7:05:30 AM PDT by Renfield
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2 posted on 08/22/2012 7:06:16 AM PDT by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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Is this science or a multi-culti fantasy?

Probably science under a big media veneer of multi-culti spin.

3 posted on 08/22/2012 7:17:55 AM PDT by DManA
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dogear


7 posted on 08/22/2012 7:27:03 AM PDT by Dysart (Obama Faults Profit. Reject That.)
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Maybe Idi Amin Dada was right after all


8 posted on 08/22/2012 7:28:01 AM PDT by dfwgator
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WHAT INSANE HERESEY IS THIS???? Everyone, simply EVERYONE, knows it was women sitting around in their menses huts, shooing flies, who conceived of the idea of planting food and staying in one place and creating shopping centers. Men just did their bidding./s


10 posted on 08/22/2012 7:30:55 AM PDT by Adder (Da bro has GOT to go!)
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Story says 1% has Berber ancestry and the African comes from the 18th century slave trade......and Moffat, a Borderer’s name is English......shocking!

Still overwhelmingly Pict, Celt, and Norse with a leavening of English usurpers it seems.

Wow. What a non news event. This is diversity in uniformity from the looks of it.


11 posted on 08/22/2012 7:33:07 AM PDT by Lowell1775
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Newsvendor’s Voice: Read all about it! Read all about it! Man turns into Scotsman!

(Mix through to Potter’s front gate. His with is being interviewed by obvious plainclothes man.)

Inspector: Mrs Potter - you knew Harold Potter quite well I believe?

Wife: Oh yes quite well.

Inspector: Yes.

Wife: He was my husband.

Inspector: Yes. And, er, he never showed any inclination towards being a Scotsman before this happened?

Wife: (shocked) No, no, not at all. He was not that sort of person...

Inspector: He didn’t wear a kilt or play the bagpipes?

Wife: No, no.

Inspector: He never got drunk at night or bought home black puddings?

Wife: No, no. Not at all.

Inspector: He didn’t have an inadequate brain capacity?

Wife: No, no, not at all.

Inspector: I see. So by your account Harold Potter was a perfectly ordinary Englishman without any tendency towards being a Scotsman whatsoever?

Wife: Absolutely, yes. (suddenly remembering) Mind you he did always watch Dr Finlay on television.

Inspector: Ah-hah! ... Well that’s it, you see. That’s how it starts.

Wife: I beg your pardon?

Inspector: Well you see Scottishness staffs with little things like that, and works up. You see, people don’t just turn into a Scotsman for no reason at all... (goes rigid with Scots accent.) No further questions!


12 posted on 08/22/2012 7:34:52 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Evidence of African, Arabian, south-east Asian and Siberian ancestry in Scotland,

Hmmmmm .....


23 posted on 08/22/2012 7:57:47 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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Too funny !

"Not every analysis of DNA has delivered welcome results. DNA analysis on Moffat himself – a proud Scottish Borders man – showed that his ancestry was English. "We don't offer counselling for that," he said."
26 posted on 08/22/2012 8:08:44 AM PDT by stylin19a (Obama -> Ransom "Rance" Stoddard)
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If it’s not Scottish it’s CRAP!


33 posted on 08/22/2012 8:24:16 AM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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The MSM loves a story that suggests those of European ancestry are not a pure race, as if any half informed person ever thought they were. This story is more about the MSM’s PC-ness and the guilt-ridden, self-loathing white folks who make up most of it.


34 posted on 08/22/2012 8:27:40 AM PDT by Will88
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This has been known for years. The Roman legions that built Hadrian’s Wall were from all over the Empire, including North Africa. There’s no way a legion of soldiers goes anywhere without leaving some Y-DNA behind.


37 posted on 08/22/2012 8:34:21 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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Well, that explains how the bagpipes got to Scotland...or not.


39 posted on 08/22/2012 8:43:04 AM PDT by madison10
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This article is a load of PC junk!

They stated in the article that there were “Scots, Celtic, Viking and Irish” in Scotland. Th Irish are Gaelic Scots who happen to be Celtic, and there are Gaelic Scots in Scotland who came from Ireland who are the same race. There are also Pict's in Scotland who are Celts as well.
Then you have the Norse in the north of Scotland who also trace there ancestry to the Celts.

Whoever wrote this article didn't do there homework.

As was posted above the Celtic people stretched from Ireland to as far away as the steppes of Russia and from Asia Minor (Turkey) to Norway. They are one of the oldest known races in the world.

41 posted on 08/22/2012 8:52:37 AM PDT by Southron Patriot (Deo Vindice)
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What I want to know is which of those exogeneous peoples brought in the skirts?


45 posted on 08/22/2012 9:12:41 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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49 posted on 08/22/2012 9:25:03 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -- George Bernard Shaw)
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Ping and hello! You’ll like this thread.


52 posted on 08/22/2012 9:29:03 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -- George Bernard Shaw)
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Ping!


60 posted on 08/22/2012 9:56:08 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -- George Bernard Shaw)
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every test like this today is for one reason only

to declare everyone is part Negro race

and then next week they swear race is a fake construct or doesn’t matter

the past 35,000 years of history are all wrong

and we know better

about everything basically

amazing


61 posted on 08/22/2012 10:01:23 AM PDT by wardaddy (this white hair don't cover up my redneck......)
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Well worth reading (after you have finished How the Irish Saved Civilization):

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It

74 posted on 08/22/2012 4:16:27 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -- George Bernard Shaw)
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