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From: Didier Vernade <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Megalith builders
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 07:41:58 +0200
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Le dimanche 3 juin 2007 07:04, Eric Olson a écrit :
> Wikipedia says... (?)
>
> Most archaeologists agree the Megaliths of Western Europe were spread by a
> homogenous culture that used the Western Mediterranean and the Atlantic
> Seaboard to spread. British Archaeologist Sir Barrington Cunliffe has
> written extensively and mapped the extent of this culture. Recent genetic
> tests confirm that a small percentage of males in each town where a
> megalith is located bear an extremely rare marker on Y-Chromosome
> Haplogroup I, subclade M26. Some have posited this marker tracks the spread
> of the megalithic cultural elite, as its far-flung and otherwise random
> distribution is otherwise inexplicable. (Gatto, et. al., 2007)
>
> Eric Olson
>
Interesting. This would mean that I group was already in brittany as early as
6500 years ago. I am rather ignorant about I haplogroup but I thought it took
them a longer time to come through the Danubian valey from the east.

Didier Vernade


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