Re: The Joy of *small* business

On 12/19/24 5:15 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 19/12/2024 04:28, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

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For thousands of years the presence of modern humans in Britain remained brief and sporadic. It has only been continuous since about 12,000 years ago.

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   Probably rates as one of the worlds "Most Invaded" places.
   Don't think anybody can make a really solid "historical
   claim" on England.

 I think that goes for most of Europe - at least the warmer more central parts and the Mediterranean.
 They got the Indo-Europeans while the Nordics got the blond blue eyed lot and where they met, redheads...
 ...and then Ghengis Khan, probably the greatest genocidal psychopath in history, spread his guy's genes all over the place.

   Europe is a total hodgepodge. Seems like EVERYBODY
   rolled through there at one time or another - wave
   after wave after wave. Serious genetic and cultural
   mixing.
   I laugh at those 'ancestry' companies who will tell
   their clients that they're "12% French" or whatever.
   What the hell IS "French" ? MANY waves of conquerors
   and colonizers came through there in the past 10,000
   years. Rome kinda owned the whole place for centuries
   and don't tell me their soldiers didn't get very busy
   with the local girls. The northern half has a lot of
   'Viking' mixed in. Two world wars mixed-in some
   'German' as well. GENETICALLY, there really isn't
   any "France". It's more a 'culture' instead.
   The Nordics ... THEY seem to have kinda sneaked around
   'Europe', coming up through western Russia and then
   around to Finland/Sweden/Norway, one step behind
   the ice-melt.
   However there is ONE group - the Basques - who seem
   to have come quite early and were not over-run.

The origins of Native Americans -  especially S Americans, is still being worked on.

   "Siberian", more or less, with some N.Chinese probably
   mixed in. In S.Am they also found some Polynesian
   long in the mix ... apparently sailed over then went
   across the mountains into the jungle area.
   BUT, look at those giant stone Olmec heads ... that's
   clear central African.