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From: "R. & G. Stevens" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Saxon DNA 3ky old - subclade
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:36:30 -0500
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From: "Lawrence Mayka" <>
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Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Saxon DNA 3ky old - subclade


> Your description presents a picture of an older culture losing ground to
> recent invaders and retreating into mountain caves as a last-ditch defense
> against assimilation.
>
> An interesting but speculative thought.
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It just strikes me as strange that those folks interred their dead in a
mountain cave over a period of several generations at the same time that all
about them Urnfield burials were common. That would seem to imply different
tribes with different religious beliefs, as well as their obviously
different burial practices.

Maybe it was not so strange, though, and other similar exceptions to the
Urnfield practice will be found.

Old I1c does seem to be centered on the Harz Mountains, although it's hard
to be certain from Rootsi's map

Rich


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