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From: "E. Peltosalo" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Y-Hap / Language Correlation
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:18:02 -0400


Ken wrote:

"The distributions of I1a and Continental I1b2a (old I1c) correlate pretty
well with continental Germanic speaking areas, with the correlation probably
being even a little better if one went back 2500 years or so to before the
Germanic speakers spread to what is today southern Germany, Switzerland, and
Austria.

Correlations don't by themselves yield the causations, if any, connecting
the two variables, but their existence offer clues that maybe a causal
connection can be found."

It's tempting to associate I1a with an important adstrate in Germanic.

I earlier made the suggestion that I(1a) might have come in with the TRB
culture, the Neolithic features of which apparently came from the Linear
Band (LBK) of Central Europe, which itself was derived from the Balkan
Neolithic. The BN seems to have featured quite alot of I(1b?), and this,
given the Near Eastern associations of both the culture and the haplogroup,
is not at all surprising.

Is it possible that the "dates" for I(1b-1a) are quite incorrect?

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