Re: The Joy of *small* business

On 20/12/2024 08:22, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

However there is ONE group - the Basques - who seem
   to have come quite early and were not over-run.
 

They are like the Welsh, Scots  Cornish, Irish and Bretons, vestigial traces of the original 'beaker people' who became the 'Gauls' or 'Celtoi'. Speaking various versions of the Godelic  and Brythonic Celtic   languages set
Except the language hails from somewhere else entirely.
It sounds to me like Eastern European (ukrainian?) with a spanish accent!

 

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.

Is it?
Or parallel evolution?
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