Posted on 12/06/2001 6:35:33 AM PST by blam
I believe this is the area where the flood of Genesis took place, therefore I believe these folks are the pregenitors to the victims of the flood of Genesis.
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Perhaps the greatest mystery of Scottish or even European history is the people who once inhabited the lands north of Hadrian's Wall and as far north as the Shetlands. Who were these fiercely independent people? Where did the come from? Which language did they speak? What did they call themselves?
We first hear of them in the third century from a Roman writer, who describes their fierceness and battle skills. The writer Eumenius, writes about them 200 years after Rome has been in Britain, and the name associated with the Pict is forever coined.
To this day, we do not know if this is truly as in "pictus" (the Latin for "painted") or a Latin form of a native name. Because of the isolation of northern Scotland, history yields little, and the Roman Empire's expeditions into the north ended in little gains.
"We, the most distant dwellers upon the earth, the last of the free, have been shielded...by our remoteness and by the obscurity which has shrouded our name...Beyond us lies no nation, nothing but waves and rocks"
The above words by the Pictish chief Calgacus are recorded by the Roman enemy in the words of Tacitus and are a perfect example of the obscurity and legendary status held by the Picts almost 2,000 years ago.
Early Scotland
The earliest recorded evidence of man in Scotland is dated to 8,500 B.C. It is thus that a few thousand years before the birth of Christ, Neolithic men from Spain and France, makers of fire and herders of sheep and cattle had already made their way to Scotland.
Some archeologists suggest that these people may have built and used the great chambered cairns which dot the Scottish countryside.
It has also been suggested that their descendants eventually merged with the Beaker people (who probably came from northern Europe), and this ethnic union made up the pre-Celtic stock of the northern lands.
The link of these early inhabitants to their Iberian ancestors can be found in the many spiral pattern grooves cut into the rocks and boulders of this northern land and which can also be found in Spain, France and Ireland.
The design of burial chambers located in the Orkney islands also provide an important link to the Iberian origin of their builders.
Farming arrived in these islands around 4,000 BC (3-4,000 years after it started in Asia Minor) and as it replaced the nomadic way of life, the Orkneys became an island fortress with its many stone settlements.
By the time Rome became a world empire, the Orcadians were recognized by Rome as a sea power.
From recent excavations, it seems that these Orcadian people were a slim, swarthy Caucasian race, with long, narrow heads.
The great stone circles such as Sunhoney were probably being built around 3,300 BC, quite possibly around the same time as the arrival of the Beaker people from Northern and Central Europe.
These newcomers were of a different ethnic group from the Iberian stock in northern Britain, as their skulls were much broader and round.
Evidence of contact between these new people and their continental ancestors have been discovered in several excavations, and seem to indicate a flourishing trade between ancient Scotland and Europe.
It is thought by many scholars that the union of these two peoples resulted in the creation of the pre- Celtic stock eventually loosely called Pict by the Roman and Cruithne by the Celts.
That's my impression to. All this means is most of the Brits had offspring from their neighbors... not uncommon given the numbers that cross the borders these day.
Give me a trace of their family names on the father's side, if they're all Bakers and Winstons, this will only tell me that they got married to the Celts.
Truer words were never spoken.
What's a WCM?
Interesting argument, but highly doubtful. The time period is too short in the Americas, and if you study genealogy as I do, you will realize that ancestry back to the 1500s is very well documented. Of the old American families, there are people searching for Indians in their family tress, but overall its just a few. Not nearly as many as your argument would suggest.
"So, I may not be a WASP after all."
LOL
There are a few males from history that it would be interesting to uncover and do a DNA study upon....
Now we need to investigate what happened to the Pre-Celts.
They're still there. This guy lives one-half mile from where his 9,000 year old relative's skeleton was found: Cheddar Man
I don't know any thing about the beaker people.
I see others have followed up, so I will only contribute new information.
Rare image of a beaker taken
from a British website. Note
the flaming red hair.
In all seriousness, these DNA studies will add a great deal to our understanding of the history of peoples. For a technogeek like myself, my own fascination with the subject stems from one of the few humanities courses I actually enjoyed in college, A History of the English Language.
Here they are now:
i don't think basque is an indo-eurpean language at all -- it's 'supposed' to be related to chechen
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