Re: The Joy of *small* business

On 20/12/2024 09:18, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

"186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> writes:

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

 The local language does seem to have been resistant to replacement for a
few thousand years. However the population genetics is rather less
static, with almost complete Y-chromosome replacement by R1b-M269 after
2000BCE.
 See e.g. Olalde et al, The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over
the past 8000 years.
 

+1.
And that is the problem with all the different proxies for tribal or 'racial' origins.
Lots of evidence of intermixing between the mitochondrial DNA from early 'celtic' UK populations and the 'Anglo saxon' but less in the ordinary DNA, suggesting Celtic women survived but the men did not always...
Early English is mostly Germanic but the word order is Celtic....typical of someone learning foreign words, but not the language, as we hear in the Yoda speak Germanic parody. With the object first  then subject, and the verb last.
"Ungrammatical the Kingdom of the Britain's, is".
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