XPost: soc.culture.irish, soc.culture.british, uk.politics.misc   
   XPost: soc.genealogy.britain   
   From: ciaran@nospam.net   
      
   T.M. Sommers wrote:   
   > Energy wrote:   
   >> dwilcox wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I thought it was only recently they'd decided we were mainly descended   
   >>> from the Ancient Britons with the A/S and the Celts having little input.   
   >>   
   >> The original Celts seem to have had an almost entirely negligible   
   >> genetic inpact on the British Isles. The Welsh and Irish resemble   
   >> Basques genetically much more than they do people from around the areas   
   >> of the Hallstatt and La Tene cultures.   
   >   
   > That's because the Celts migrated; they did not stay in Central Europe,   
   > and other peoples moved in.   
   >   
   Thanks, T.M. Sommers - yours is an idea that makes sense of this debate   
   and is supported by archaeology. The Celts did undertake mass   
   migrations, e.g. the Galatians of central Turkey from what is now France   
   (and their genetic imprint would still seem to be there) and the   
   Germanic and Slavic peoples did move into areas formerly occupied by   
   Celts in Central Europe.   
      
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