To: blam
My bet is that the 20% were Celts. Does that make sense?Hmm. Would the Celts have had the same Y chromosomes as the rest of the population already in NW Europe?
Basque has no known relatives. Surely some remnant group would have been found by now speaking a related language.
Berber?
Anyway, fascinating.
29 posted on
02/22/2004 5:58:20 PM PST by
squarebarb
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To: squarebarb
"My bet is that the 20% were Celts. Does that make sense?Hmm. Would the Celts have had the same Y chromosomes as the rest of the population already in NW Europe? " I'm leaning in that direction also. They would be distantly related to all other Europeans of that time.
37 posted on
02/22/2004 6:14:26 PM PST by
blam
To: squarebarb
Basque has no known relatives. Surely some remnant group would have been found by now speaking a related language. As with the Basque language, the Basques are generally considered to be an isolated ethnic group.
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