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Subject: RE: [DNA] an unexpected haplogroup result
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 09:12:01 +0000
Yes. That is what I am suspicious of, the historical idealism.:-/
Rebekah
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> Our debate has been influenced by historical idealism, where an agreed
> convention has been taken as an absolute, that farmers don't hunt or gather,
> because we have called them 'farmers'.
>
> Do you see where I am coming from?
>
> I think there is an inherent error in the belief of say J, or otherwise,
> being a 'Neolithic people'. They are much older, and so beyond that
> historical imputation, although conventionally know as.....
>
> All the best!
> Grant South
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