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    Thread: R1b-L51 and Corded Ware
Post: RE: R1b-L51 and Corded Ware

negative evidence is always risky to infer much from unless there is a very big sample, but the lack of pre beaker P312 in ancient samples of CW burials might actually be telling us something about th...
alanarchae2
alanarchae2
R1b-L51 156 8,160 04-11-2025, 12:09 AM
    Thread: Tracing the Spread of Celtic Languages using Ancient Genomics
Post: RE: Tracing the Spread of Celtic Languages using A...

reading over the paper, I think he has spotted some interesting trends but is using a v v thin database with huge caps in time-space and has come up with poor explanations for the trends by not taking...
alanarchae2
alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 165 14,529 03-21-2025, 04:52 PM
    Thread: Tracing the Spread of Celtic Languages using Ancient Genomics
Post: RE: Tracing the Spread of Celtic Languages using A...

Kyu Wrote: (03-04-2025, 11:21 AM) -- La Tene Wrote: (03-03-2025, 10:51 PM) -- billh Wrote: (03-03-2025, 03:07 PM) -- I'm a little skeptical that Urnfield is unilaterally Celtic, because it had a ve...
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alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 165 14,529 03-21-2025, 12:44 AM
    Thread: The Slavic Migration
Post: RE: The Slavic Migration

I would extend Riverman’s comments about the problem of cremation dominance meaning the few non burnt burials could be atypical people to noting the same problem in the bronze age of the isles. Cremat...
alanarchae2
alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 344 24,524 03-20-2025, 11:11 PM
    Thread: The Slavic Migration
Post: RE: The Slavic Migration

I would extend Riverman’s comments about the problem of cremation dominance meaning the few non burnt burials could be atypical people to noting the same problem in the bronze age of the isles. Cremat...
alanarchae2
alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 344 24,524 03-20-2025, 11:10 PM
    Thread: Tracing the Spread of Celtic Languages using Ancient Genomics
Post: RE: Tracing the Spread of Celtic Languages using A...

It’s interesting stuff though I tend to agree with Riverman that’ sampling bias is making a red herring of Celts from the east of central Europe. It’s much more likely that a heavily beaker derived tu...
alanarchae2
alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 165 14,529 03-20-2025, 10:47 PM
    Thread: new paper on iron age Britons
Post: RE: new paper on iron age Britons

I don’t think anyone is surprised southern England has a stream of incomers from the mid bronze age until the Roman arrived. Archaeology suggested that anyway. In fact i’d say this stream was present...
alanarchae2
alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 43 3,512 02-08-2025, 11:16 AM
    Thread: The Origin of R1b-L21
Post: RE: The Origin of R1b-L21

rmstevens2 Wrote: (02-01-2025, 09:05 PM) -- FTDNA Discover's Globetrekker is back to the silliness of showing R-L21 originating in SW England. That's silly because Discover's own "Haplogroup Story" e...
alanarchae2
alanarchae2
R1b-L21 503 31,172 02-01-2025, 10:37 PM
    Thread: new paper on iron age Britons
Post: RE: new paper on iron age Britons

there is a problem though in comparing iron age and bronze age generics in Britain. The problem is that the british overwhelmingly cremated between about 1500BC and the iron age and even in the iron ...
alanarchae2
alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 43 3,512 02-01-2025, 10:13 PM
    Thread: new paper on iron age Britons
Post: RE: new paper on iron age Britons

JonikW Wrote: (01-31-2025, 10:01 PM) -- The value of primary sources is often downplayed but we've seen several ancient chroniclers now that got things right for northern Europe where modern academic...
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alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 43 3,512 02-01-2025, 10:03 PM
    Thread: new paper on iron age Britons
Post: RE: new paper on iron age Britons

alanarchae2 Wrote: (01-31-2025, 12:20 PM) -- Dewsloth Wrote: (01-22-2025, 10:21 PM) -- Okay, a little closer look at what they have on Driffield and how it relates to the rest of Britain over time a...
alanarchae2
alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 43 3,512 01-31-2025, 12:37 PM
    Thread: new paper on iron age Britons
Post: RE: new paper on iron age Britons

Dewsloth Wrote: (01-22-2025, 10:21 PM) -- Okay, a little closer look at what they have on Driffield and how it relates to the rest of Britain over time and also with the Netherlands/NWEurope as an in...
alanarchae2
alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 43 3,512 01-31-2025, 12:20 PM
    Thread: new paper on iron age Britons
Post: RE: new paper on iron age Britons

One thing is clear - the south of england must have been the engine room of passing on cultural and linguistic influence to the rest of Britain and Ireland through the bronze and iron ages. It’s intim...
alanarchae2
alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 43 3,512 01-19-2025, 12:09 AM
    Thread: new paper on iron age Britons
Post: RE: new paper on iron age Britons

Granary Wrote: (01-18-2025, 04:45 PM) -- alanarchae2 Wrote: (01-18-2025, 04:36 PM) -- Mitchell-Atkins Wrote: (01-17-2025, 05:14 PM) -- Per language intelligibility discussion;  just some anecdotal ...
alanarchae2
alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 43 3,512 01-18-2025, 06:27 PM
    Thread: new paper on iron age Britons
Post: RE: new paper on iron age Britons

Granary Wrote: (01-18-2025, 04:45 PM) -- alanarchae2 Wrote: (01-18-2025, 04:36 PM) -- Mitchell-Atkins Wrote: (01-17-2025, 05:14 PM) -- Per language intelligibility discussion;  just some anecdotal ...
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alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 43 3,512 01-18-2025, 06:15 PM
    Thread: new paper on iron age Britons
Post: RE: new paper on iron age Britons

Granary Wrote: (01-18-2025, 04:45 PM) -- alanarchae2 Wrote: (01-18-2025, 04:36 PM) -- Mitchell-Atkins Wrote: (01-17-2025, 05:14 PM) -- Per language intelligibility discussion;  just some anecdotal ...
alanarchae2
alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 43 3,512 01-18-2025, 05:47 PM
    Thread: new paper on iron age Britons
Post: RE: new paper on iron age Britons

Mitchell-Atkins Wrote: (01-17-2025, 05:14 PM) -- Per language intelligibility discussion;  just some anecdotal examples Hawaiian and Marquesan Polynesian languages split around 1100 AD yet they a...
alanarchae2
alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 43 3,512 01-18-2025, 04:36 PM
    Thread: new paper on iron age Britons
Post: RE: new paper on iron age Britons

Granary Wrote: (01-17-2025, 07:35 AM) -- alanarchae2 Wrote: (01-17-2025, 01:56 AM) -- It probably had the key role in keeping the language dialects of Britain closely aligned to the continent throug...
alanarchae2
alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 43 3,512 01-18-2025, 04:11 PM
    Thread: new paper on iron age Britons
Post: RE: new paper on iron age Britons

In southern coast England at least, the model of continuous interaction from beaker times through the entire bronze age is convincing. Especially intense and with a genetic signal from the middle Bron...
alanarchae2
alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 43 3,512 01-18-2025, 03:59 PM
    Thread: new paper on iron age Britons
Post: RE: new paper on iron age Britons

Riverman Wrote: (01-18-2025, 01:47 PM) -- pelop Wrote: (01-18-2025, 10:58 AM) -- Webb Wrote: (01-17-2025, 05:51 PM) -- I would also point out Latin.  Spoken between 1200 and 700 BCE, with an inscri...
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alanarchae2
Ancient (aDNA) 43 3,512 01-18-2025, 03:30 PM