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From: "Lawrence Mayka" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Megalith Builders
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 06:31:14 -0500
In-Reply-To: <060320070951.9640.46628F1E0008CA97000025A822007503309C029D9A0D01040D0E9F@comcast.net>


http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/000816.html
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Archaeologists are finally in agreement that the Megalithic period in
Ireland 'boomed' between the years 4200 BCE and 3500 BCE.
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The question is, Which haplogroup(s) were common in the area _at that time_?

> [mailto:] On Behalf Of
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> It was stated that the earliest megaliths in Europe date to
> 4500 BC. I thought that one at the Carrowmore tomb complex,
> or near Carrowmore, in Sligo, Ireland, had been carbon-dated
> to 5500-6000 BC? The far west of Ireland is 98% R1b.


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