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From: "Wil Husted" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Megalith Builders
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 16:09:28 -0600
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Hello Rich,

You replied to Ellen Levy,

> Ellen -
>
> I do feel it is entirely possible that J and E3b were already ensconced
> along the northern littoral of the Mediterranean before R1b arrived there.
> I still do not know enough to say what the original y-haplogroups of W.
> Europe were, however. Perhaps K or F? One thing I find curious is the
> presence of both I1b1b (M26+) and G2 among the Basques and scattered here
> and there about W. Europe. I1b1b is that clade of I1b that is found in
> strength only on the island of Sardinia. Since some linguists claim to see
> a connection between Basque and some of the Caucasian languages, the
> presence of G2 among the Basques and in quantity among Caucasian speakers
> is intriguing. Since both I and G originated in the Near or Middle East,
> they would seem a better match for mtDNA H than R1b appears to be.
>
> Rich

I think the strength of I1b1b in Sardinia is due to isolation after
occupation of the island by I1b1b people. I1b1b is also found along the
northern Mediterranean littoral, albeit in small numbers, but they were
there and probably for quite some time. Might it also possibly have been
before R1b arrived? Ken Nordtvedt knows much more about I1b1b (his I1b1a-A),
I get my information from him. Whatever, being a member of this lonely
little group, I want to toot our horn when an opportunity presents itself.

With tongue in cheek, I hypothesize that my being drawn early in life to the
middle-northern Rocky Mountain area from the lowland of southern New Jersey
results from I1b1b being a Basque characteristic and that the Basques are
great sheepherders!

For whatever it's worth, my mtDNA haplogroup is W.

Wil Husted


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