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From: Steve Williamson <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] NYTimes.com Article: Celtic Found to Have Ancient Roots
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:47:39 -0700 (PDT)


I wrote:
"I suggested J2 as an "Indo-European" haplogroup in the sense that if J2 is the haplogroup associated with the spread of Neolithic farmers into Europe from western Eurasia, and if these farmers were speakers of Indo-European..."

Then I noticed that Family Tree DNA associates R1a with the first IE speakers, who they equate with the Kurgan culture (anyone see the movie "Highlander"?). I guess it depends on which theory you subscribe to: that the bringers of IE languages to Europe were nomadic pastoralists, or that they were Anatolian farmers. Maybe it was both?

No one knows (yet), which is why there are a range of theories among historians & archaeologists.

Steve W.






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