[blam]

"That means they were heavily built, almost as if they had, oh, I dunno, Neandertal forebears... ;')"

I always did like your way of thinking. Maybe we've found a group of hybrid Modern Human - Neanderthals, huh?

The people he defines as robust were found in these locations:

* Qawrighul
* Charwighul
* Yanbulaq

and later he says that they're closely related to people known by these names:

* Afanasevo
* Yamna
* Srubna

But not related at all to these people:

* Sredny Stog

And, all of the above are defined as proto-Europeans...some robust, some not.

[SunkenCiv]

The late Grover Krantz, best known perhaps for his interest in Bigfoot, discussed a scenario where archaic hunter-gatherers persisted for a long time in Europe, still vanishing for the most part before literacy arrived, with perhaps some straggler pockets of population lasting until the Middle Ages.

[colorado tanker]

So, they weren't Celts, but they liked to wear the latest fashions from Milan?