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From: "R. & G. Stevens" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Megalith Builders
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 18:17:32 -0500
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From: "Wil Husted" <>
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Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Megalith Builders

> 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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I think I1b1b has been on Sardinia and in Iberia for a long long time. I was
just remarking on the possibility that it was there in Western Europe,
perhaps even in the British Isles, before R1b arrived. Of course, I was just
tossing that out for discussion. I don't actually know who got to W. Europe
first.

Rich

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