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    Posted: 28-Mar-2006 at 06:57

Edgewaters wrote;

"You're misinterpreting the data. They are correct to say our ancestors are from the c. 13000 BP era. Sites like Yana refer to one of many inhabitations of the north during interglacial periods, sites which were abandoned during glacial events. Given its location, it is further likely that this was inhabited by Mongoloids, not Caucasians."

And on what grounds do you build such an assumption, Sir?

My interpretations are basicly conclusions reached from various faculties -Russian, English, American and Scandinavian. There are none of them reffering these Mesolittic or Paleolithic sites to the mongloid culture. Because the items and structures found simply point in the oposite durection. You havent even viewed the material in question - or the repports thereof - and still you think that you are able to postulate the origin of these items and this culture? 

On top of that you place the next presumption, that I am the one "mis-interpretating the data".  Why should your "interpretation" be more valid than the one I prescribed? Except from being "yours"?!



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Mjau,

I am sorry, but I didnt know that you could know the thruth of these matters better than every other archeologist. And I am still surprised that not even reality can make you change one of your preconceived opinions.

quote, Maju:

"You're saying nonsense: that some artifacts have been found in a pre-glaciar period in Scandinavia means nothing: H. Sapiens was then still in Africa! That's the date of "mithocodrial Eve"! There are no human (H. Sapiens) remains out of Africa until at least 90,000 BCE (Palestine)!"

Once more; Do you really think that this is a case where all factors are known, PROVEN and completed?!  In case how-when-where, and to what extent?



I say that you are building castles in the air...

You are the one that has not the slightest evidence for your exotic proposals. You find some mousterian or acheulean artifacts and from that you build whole Nordicist mutant theory that goes against everything we know either in the fields of archeology or genetics.

You are the one proposing something extremely odd: care to back it. I'm just defending the standard paradigm and you will find enough evidence for it anywhere, except amybe in Neo-Nazi sites.

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  Quote Maju Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28-Mar-2006 at 07:35
The mutant somethings from the glacial nowhere:



Along with the mutant Nordic albino tiger from the depths of the Sibiristan:



And other mutations of the Chernobyl cataclism:



... of 1 million years ago, when the mutants dominated Earth...


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You sure are such a cutie, Mjau.

These are all VERY convincing arguments. You just brougth this conversation - as well as this topic and this forum - to a new level. Much like Hitler did - when he ran out of arguments. He turned demagogical and started shouting. Sorry I just didnt understand that you were that desperate to defend your "superior position" as a Guru around here. This is nothing but nasty agression - to overrun an argument that dont fit with your lower self. Completly out of ethics.

Moreover, it plays the entire discussion - about these discoveries - rigth into the hands of the Neo-nazies. It's frightening to see that you dont understand that - unless you side with the neo-facists?!

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The purpose of this thread is to have a serious discussion about the origin of the German tribes. That neccesarily includes the question about the north-europeans in general, which consequently require a closer look at the oldest civilisations or cultures known to have been inhabitting the arctic and sub-arctic hemisphere.

Thus an update on the most recent discoveries are obviously due. Any serious participant knows that it is imminent to discuss this issue without the presence of old, twisted paraphrases - or new-born demagogics - both serving as political arguments. Modern German science do not deserve that kind of treatment - and sure not the Scandinvian.

 



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More mongloids?

http://www.susiluola.fi/eng/archaeology.php

More non-existing mutants?

http://sydaby.eget.net/eng/wolf/wolf_ralf.htm



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Schulz closed his article in Populr Arkeologi by pointing out that many years ago people in Central Europe found the remains of a neanderthal man who lived more than 250,000 years ago. "With this background one can perhaps guess that these visitors to the Wolf Cave were an earlier edition of the neanderthal man."


Neanderthal-thal-thal-thal...!!!

Why are you making us waste our time?!

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Originally posted by Maju

Schulz closed his article in Populr Arkeologi by pointing out that many years ago people in Central Europe found the remains of a neanderthal man who lived more than 250,000 years ago. "With this background one can perhaps guess that these visitors to the Wolf Cave were an earlier edition of the neanderthal man."


Neanderthal-thal-thal-thal...!!!

Why are you making us waste our time?!

 

Judging from your latest posts (above) you certainly don't waste time in producing contempt.  Basing your outlines on premature conclusions, heresay and guesses. Just look at the way you used the last quote - to start your infameous bashing again - with no other substance than Mr. Schultz' hintful suggestion. Taken out of it's rigthful context - of course.

You better ask yourself why you keep using time offending other people's intelligence and common sense - not to say your own ditto. Insisting on a point of view doesn't make it more true.



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"With that background one can perhaps guess" in Neanderthals but one has no reasons to think in Sapiens that didn't even existed then most likely would be there.

They find tools that are simmilar to other tools associated to Neanderthal people in a time when our ancestors were still forming as species... what are they going to think?

It could be the yeti, naturally.

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They gonna keep wondering - because the enigmatic discoveries here reffered - have led leading antropologists to seriously question the present paradigms, based on the OoA-theory. 

Thus I presented these repports - in due order,  so that the readers of this forum-thread should know about them, rather than not.  Inbetween I state what they all point to, - in terms of Nordic and North-European origin. Which are imminently relevant to any adequate analyzis concerning the possible genesis of IE man.

These findings are new facts. Your rabulations are all based on the old/well-known theories. What do you really KNOW about the time-line of Homo Sapies? How much history of science have you studied in order to understand the origin and true basis of these time-lines? In other words; what is the qualitative proofs for h.s.sapiens being 150.000 Yrs? Where are the references of the three independant, double-checked lab-works establishing this time-line? And what are your proof that no older remain of h.s.s. lays hidden around somewhere? How can you exclude such a possibility - by bluntly stating that H.s.s. did not exist - before he showed up in the Levant some 90.000 yrs ago.

Two example more - could possibly make you understand the right question - at least.

In the summer of 2000, when the world press arrived in Sydney for the Olympics - the Australians gave them a dossier on Australian history, starting with the Aboriginals. There they explained that only a year prior to the games a team of Australian antropologers and archologist had completed a six year project - concluding that the oldest site with Aborginal Yeti-items were TL-dated to 140.000 yrs BP.

35 years ago Virginnia Steen-McIntyre, Dr. of Geology, repported a discovery of arrow-heads, tusks and animal bones in the geological strata of Valsequillo Bassin. In 1967 already. 11 years later she was as sure as sure could be - and she went on to publish the evidences - even if they were "way out of the ordinary"; namely 240.000-360.000 years old.  

Mainstream science were shocked. "Horrendously incredible, off course. "Nonsense. Utter garbage. Dangerously misleading of the public. Deceptive!" Etc., etc. Thus she was sacked from her position, and banned among the leading universities - even if she was one of Anericas top ten geologists - only a year before. And those sackers - defending their positions and salaries first - are the ones you trust, unto fundamental proportions?!  http://www.mexicanfootprints.co.uk/

At the end of the day you need to explain your frame of reference by yourself.  Then how are you incorporating;

1) The 130-140.000 years old Yetis of Australia and Tasmania? As erectus, heidelbegensis or sapiens?

2) The 40.000 years old Amerindians? Their 340.000 years old ancestors?

What have Dr. Wells told you about this - and where does he place them demograpically?

 

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Mutations or Malformations? 
 
A paper in The New England Journal of Medicine written by Duane Gish, Ph.D. (Institute for Creation Research, El Cajun, CA) may help to clearify MaJu's annoying confusion over the previous argumetns from this poster.
 
The Human Tail
Duane Gish, Ph.D. - Excerpt

An article entitled "Evolution and the Human Tail" by Dr. Fred D. Ledley appeared in the May 20, 1982, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. The publication of this article apparently served as the source of a whale of a tale, for newspaper articles based on Ledley's publication appeared all over the United States.
 
Malformations may possibly be due to the expression of genes inherited from distant ancestors but long suppressed, one can think of interesting suggestions. For example, some human females are born with mammary glands under the armpits.
 
Some human females are born with mammary glands in the groin region. Mammary glands normally occur in the groin region of some whales and goats. Does that mean that human females still possess genes for mammary glands in the groin region that have been inherited from a whale or goat ancestor? 

J.C.K Rijsbosch notes that M. Bartels had collected 116 reports of "tail" formation in humans. In cases where the sex was reported, 52 were males and 16 were females. If the caudal appendage represents a back mutation to an ancestral state, the human male must thus be somewhat closer to his monkey ancestor than the female since the condition occurs three times more frequently in males than in females!

Warkany reports that while most persons with caudal appendages showed normal general development. How can evolutionary theory and modern gentics help us explain that? 

http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view &ID=210

 



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The Human Genetics

Humbling was the prevalent adjective used by the scientific teams and the media to describe the principal finding that the human genome contains not the anticipated 100,000 - 140,000 genes (the stretches of DNA that direct the production of amino-acids and proteins) but only some 30,000+ -- little more than double the 13,601 genes of a fruit fly and barely fifty percent more than the roundworms 19,098. What a comedown from the pinnacle of the genomic Tree of Life!

Moreover, there was hardly any uniqueness to the human genes. They are comparative to not the presumed 95 percent but to almost 99 percent of the chimpanzees, and 70 percent of the mouse. Human genes, with the same functions, were found to be identical to genes of other vertebrates, as well as invertebrates, plants, fungi, even yeast. The findings not only confirmed that there was one source of DNA for all life on Earth, but also enabled the scientists to trace the evolutionary process how more complex organisms evolved, genetically, from simpler ones, adopting at each stage the genes of a lower life form to create a more complex higher life form culminating with Homo sapiens.

But; Darwinian evolution relies on random point mutations to produce evolved organisms. As mathematician David Belinski points out, Darwinian theories appear far too weak to have brought about the remarkable structures evident in living creatures. If one assumes that all life arose out of random generations of proteins then theres a problem.

First of all, every known example of genetic mutation either produces no noticeable change or causes death (or in rare cases undoes the mistake of a past mutation). Yet, Darwinian evolution relies on random point mutations creating lots of biological advantages. The ratio of useful proteins to possible random proteins is 1:10500. Therefore, barring incredible luck, it would take about 10500 trials to produce one useful protein when a cell needs a minimum of one to two thousand proteins. Hence, life appeared on earth (and evolved) far too quickly for the present timelines - based on Darwinian theory of evolution - to be completely correct.

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f01/web1/baird.htm l

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Tropic Origin - Arctic Culture

A very important point in case is raised by cell-biologist Stephen Rothman, pin-pointing that adaptive qualities belong to organisms, not genes. Its the animal that must cope with jungle, desert or ocean, not the genome tucked away in its cozy nuclear compartment. Darwinian evolution makes sense because it places the organism, not DNA, at the center of the action.

"Neo-Darwinism" - on the other hand - is reductionistic. As with machines, the most easy way to understand an organism is to reduce it level it, you might say recasting it in terms of its parts. Then, in turn, they are reduced to their separate parts, and describes as parts. Then the overall functioning do not require an explanation - because once the exact nature of the parts and their interactions is accounted for, the whole picture automatically falls into place.

Evolution exists, but pinning down timelines is complicated and difficult. Moreover,  the basic understanding of genetics is still fresh and incomplete. Thus we need to be very careful about drawing conclusive answers about the causes, as well as the structure and its effects - concerning the human genome. Concluding time-lines, speciation and possible locations and migrations of different (etnic) genotypes - based on bio-chemistry alone - is nothing but premature. 

To establish relevant time-lines we are still entirely dependant on archeological results  - and the adquate dating, respectively. These dating-techniques are, per se, a pretty new and still not well confirmed - although they are improving. Consequently we still don't have no simple or absolute timelines to neither the origin of man, nor the orgin of the respective etnicities. Besides the classical etnology, the new archeological evidence and their proximate dating.

Thus there are no scientific basis for cathegoric conclusions regarding the origin of man - as there are no conclusive evidents about the time or place for the genesis of the Eurasian populations. Except for the plain and obvious demographic fact that they have adapted to the arctic hemisphere - both physically and culturally - and the massive amount of archeological sites that have thouroughly established that this happened well before the end of ice-time. 

There are no reason to let outdated theories, etnic interests, twisted politics or fundamental convictions stand in the way of that reality. 


 



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Europe's Oldest Civilisation

11 June 2005, Saturday.

By David Keys
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Archaeologists have discovered Europe's oldest civilisation, a network of dozens of temples, 2,000 years older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids.

More than 150 gigantic monuments have been located beneath the fields and cities of modern-day Germany, Austria and Slovakia. They were built 7,000 years ago, between 4800BC and 4600BC.

Their discovery, revealed today by The Independent, will revolutionise the study of prehistoric Europe, where an appetite for monumental architecture was thought to have developed later than in Mesopotamia and Egypt.

In all, more than 150 temples have been identified. Constructed of earth and wood, they had ramparts and palisades that stretched for up to half a mile. They were built by a religious people who lived in communal longhouses up to 50 metres long, grouped around substantial villages. Evidence suggests their economy was based on cattle, sheep, goat and pig farming.

Their civilisation seems to have died out after about 200 years and the recent archaeological discoveries are so new that the temple building culture does not even have a name yet.

Excavations have been taking place over the past few years - and have triggered a re-evaluation of similar, though hitherto mostly undated, complexes identified from aerial photographs throughout central Europe.

Archaeologists are now beginning to suspect that hundreds of these very early monumental religious centres, each up to 150 metres across, were constructed across a 400-mile swath of land in what is now Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and eastern Germany.

The most complex excavated so far - located inside the city of Dresden - consisted of an apparently sacred internal space surrounded by two palisades, three earthen banks and four ditches.

The monuments seem to be a phenomenon associated exclusively with a period of consolidation and growth that followed the initial establishment of farming cultures in the centre of the continent.

It is possible that the newly revealed early Neolithic monument phenomenon was the consequence of an increase in the size of - and competition between - emerging Neolithic tribal or pan-tribal groups, arguably Europe's earliest mini-states.

After a relatively brief period - perhaps just one or two hundred years - either the need or the socio-political ability to build them disappeared, and monuments of this scale were not built again until the Middle Bronze Age, 3,000 years later. Why this monumental culture collapsed is a mystery.

The archaeological investigation into these vast Stone Age temples over the past three years has also revealed several other mysteries. First, each complex was only used for a few generations - perhaps 100 years maximum. Second, the central sacred area was nearly always the same size, about a third of a hectare. Third, each circular enclosure ditch - irrespective of diameter - involved the removal of the same volume of earth. In other words, the builders reduced the depth and/or width of each ditch in inverse proportion to its diameter, so as to always keep volume (and thus time spent) constant .

Archaeologists are speculating that this may have been in order to allow each earthwork to be dug by a set number of special status workers in a set number of days - perhaps to satisfy the ritual requirements of some sort of religious calendar.

The multiple bank, ditch and palisade systems "protecting" the inner space seem not to have been built for defensive purposes - and were instead probably designed to prevent ordinary tribespeople from seeing the sacred and presumably secret rituals which were performed in the "inner sanctum" .

The investigation so far suggests that each religious complex was ritually decommissioned at the end of its life, with the ditches, each of which had been dug successively, being deliberately filled in.

"Our excavations have revealed the degree of monumental vision and sophistication used by these early farming communities to create Europe's first truly large scale earthwork complexes," said the senior archaeologist, Harald Staeuble of the Saxony state government's heritage department, who has been directing the archaeological investigations. Scientific investigations into the recently excavated material are taking place in Dresden.

The people who built the huge circular temples were the descendants of migrants who arrived many centuries earlier from the Danube plain in what is now northern Serbia and Hungary. The temple-builders were pastoralists, controlling large herds of cattle, sheep and goats as well as pigs. They made tools of stone, bone and wood, and small ceramic statues of humans and animals.

They manufactured substantial amounts of geometrically decorated pottery, and they lived in large longhouses in substantial villages.
One village complex and temple at Aythra, near Leipzig, covers an area of 25 hectares. Two hundred longhouses have been found there. The population would have been up to 300 people living in a highly organised settlement of 15 to 20 very large communal buildings.

 

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Rebuilding Germany's Temple of

the Sun

 

Ancient farmers may have used the observatory to check the seasons

Ancient farmers may have used the observatory to check the seasons

A project to faithfully reconstruct a 7,000 year-old solar observatory, the oldest of its kind in Europe, began this week at Goseck in the German state of Saxony.

 

The reconstruction, which is estimated to cost a total of 100,000 euros ($122,830) at its completion, should be finished by the end of the year and the restored observatory will join the growing list of increasingly popular "Sky Way" attractions of ancient sites related to the study of astronomy.

 

The observatory was first discovered in 1991 when the 75 meter diameter circular outer ring was unearthed by archeologists after an aerial photograph revealed the site.

 

The observatory sits next to the small town of Goseck in Saxony-Anhalt in eastern GermanyBildunterschrift: The observatory sits next to the small town of Goseck in Saxony-Anhalt in eastern Germany

 

A good 12 years later, the team of experts under the direction of Professor Francois Bertemes uncovered the main hall area which led them to believe that this was a major find.

 

An insight into the life of ancient farmers

 

They were right. The observatory was not only the largest of its kind on the continent and an important discovery in the quest to understand ancient astronomical exploration but it gave the archeologists further insight into the spiritual-religious world of Europe's first farmers.

 

The observatory is taking shape againBildunterschrift: Groansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift:  The observatory is taking shape againThe sun was worshipped as the bringer of life and the orchestrator of the changing seasons and the observatory may have had played a part in the farmers' understanding of nature and crop growth.

 

Experts say that the southeast gate of the observatory corresponds to the exact point the sun rose at the beginning of the winter solstice on Dec. 21 almost 7,000 years ago. The southwest gate is believed to be the corresponding point to the sundown on that date.

 

An area rich in astronomical finds

 

The sky disc of Nebra  

 The sky disc of Nebra

 

 

Its discovery is also significant due to the fact it is situated only 23 kilometers from the place where the 3,600 year-old sky disc of Nebra was discovered in 2002, an example of one of the earliest astronomical representations of the night sky.

 

The solar observatory, situated in an area rich in ancient heritage sites in Saxony-Anhalt is estimated to have been originally built sometime around 5,000 years B.C.

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1. You want to imagine Sapiens where there must be Neanderthals... fine. Just don't put the blame on me but on your hot head.

2. The mammal apendages you mention are false and the article you link to "document" it talks about something else.

3. There are other topics to disuss evolution theory: I'm sure you will findthem amusing - and others will find you too. It's irrelevant for our matter.

4. The "temples" you mention have been known for long, though not in the aboundant numbers they are now. They belong to the Danubian Neolithic, and have most likely nothing to do with the developement of Germanic nations as such (these areas were Celtic some 2100 years ago).

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1. Not my imagination. Not even my suggestion. But one I find well worth considering -  see my introductory reply. I think we all understand that you dont find it relevant. Your thoughts about it are overwhelmingly exposed already. The pics above still tells whose body.temperature -

2.  The mammal apendages was a curious comment to your former report from "Nowhereland". My point was that the article argues that the present timeline of evolution if the higher mammals are way off - if evolutionary genetics is to explain the origin and speciation of primates.

3. Unless you find the article seriously relevant - indicating that the human ancestors are a cross-breed between a male monkey and a female dolphin, whale or goat. According to the present genetical context...

Please feel free to further that case wherever you FEEL like...

4. Known for long? The article above were posted last year.

 A) It is no more than a handfull of years since the megalths of Northern Europe were duely mapped - giving an outline overview. The word "civilisation" was not used before Renfrew published his monumnental works 2000 and 2002.  The understanding of this complex-matter is still growing - quite rapidly - as old information is reconsidered, dated and understood, while new sites are discovered and excavated.  We have MUCH more to learn here - before we are anywhere near the conclusive matters. Thus it is obviously premature to conclude the way you do.

Besides (quote) "... known for a long time already", isn't that much of an argument really. The sun have been known even longer and our understanding about it is still tiny. But I know all about it - I even know that it always shine, - yes,yes, yes - even when it rains.

B) I guess you have a waterproof line of evidence that NONE of these megaliths were ever touched by "germans", but by "celts". I guess you have Caesar's and Aenid*s word for that? Or Jordanes, perhaps?

So where did the "German" tribes occur - and when did they arrive in "Germania" - accordong to your opinion?! I guessl you can present a "Celtic genotype", genuinly different from a consequent "German genotype" to substantiate your imaginative claims.

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Yes, known for long: those "enclosures", already considered temples or ritual places, were known at least in the 90s, in some isolated places. I remamber a handful of them in different places of Central Europe.

What is new is that there are so many of them, all built by the same pattern, indicating a clear spiritual unity of early Danubians or Western Linear Pottery culture.

The word civilization is probably abusive unless you show me the remains of the cities. But press loves grandious terms.

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These people were not IEs most likely - unless you favor the Renfrew hypothesis for the expansion of IEs. Most data indicates against it and in this forum has yet to appear a solid defender of such argumentation.

As I think that the Gimbutas paradigm is the valid one, IEs were then still in their embrionary status in the Volga area, and, therefore, neither Germans nor Celts, who weren't still formed, nor any other IE speaking person has anythng to do with that.

Anyhow, the first IE people that we find historically living in that region are Celts. Germans being then located in Lower Germany and Scandinavia. Yet you just can't jump from Linear Pottery to La Tne ignoring several milennia (c. 4000-400 BCE vanished! ) of major ethnic and cultural change.

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This Boreas guy is good for a laugh.

The only people who adhere to Multiregionalism nowdays are racists, and cranks like Wolpoff who ignore very good genetic evidence and instead rely on skelatal "evidence" that I consider a case of seeing what they want to see. Multiregionalism also goes against evolutionary biology and population genetics, The Old World was too big for pre-modern hominids to stay one species. The mtDNA found in Neandertal remains show that the African and Eurasian populations of H. heidelbergensis had already become isolated into  pre-Neandertal (in Eurasia) and pre-modern (in Africa) populations respectively by 500,000 years ago, the populations were reproductively isolated from then on.

The "mongoloid" features of the Sami don't seem that strong, prehaps their features are the result of thouroughly caucasian Finno-Ugric speakers migrating northward from central and eastern Europe at the end of the last ice age mixing with "mongoloid" arctic hunters and fishermen from Siberia (the same expansion of arctic people that gave rise to the Inuit, prehaps?).

Modern Germanic people are decendants of mesolithic Finnic people that "converted" to Indo-European religion, customs, and language. The sound shift known as Grimm's Law may be a result of Finnic speakers taking up Late PIE. Proto-Germanic also seems to have taken up a huge amount of Finnic vocabulary, king, knight, north, south, east, west, and sea, for example, all seem to be derived from Finnic languages (look up "Germanic Substrate Hypothesis" on Wiki for more info).

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Finnish peoples show a male ascendancy quite different from other Europeans, except Baltics and Russians that share it in lesser manner. It's considered an Uralic marker. But by the female side and overall genetics, they seem pretty much Euros like the rest (except Lapps).

Meanwhile Germans and Scandinavians don't have those male (Y-chr) types, meaning a different genesis. They have the types that identify Westerners and Easterners but not the Uralic ones, which are restricted the regions East of the Baltic (and Lappland).

Also, as you will see in the topic on European tongues, I don't think that Uralic can be associated to Native Eastern Eruopeans but rather that it came from the Urals area. I think Eastern Europeans spoke maybe some Caucasic tongue and the Scandinavians spoke then either Atlantic languages (Magdalenian) or one of those Caucasic (Eastern Gravettian) ones.

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  Quote Odin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-Apr-2006 at 21:41

Originally posted by Maju

Finnish peoples show a male ascendancy quite different from other Europeans, except Baltics and Russians that share it in lesser manner. It's considered an Uralic marker. But by the female side and overall genetics, they seem pretty much Euros like the rest (except Lapps).

Meanwhile Germans and Scandinavians don't have those male (Y-chr) types, meaning a different genesis. They have the types that identify Westerners and Easterners but not the Uralic ones, which are restricted the regions East of the Baltic (and Lappland).

Also, as you will see in the topic on European tongues, I don't think that Uralic can be associated to Native Eastern Eruopeans but rather that it came from the Urals area. I think Eastern Europeans spoke maybe some Caucasic tongue and the Scandinavians spoke then either Atlantic languages (Magdalenian) or one of those Caucasic (Eastern Gravettian) ones.

The problem is that there doesn't seem to be much difference in physical difference between Finns and, say, Norwegians. Also, as I posted in the Finno-Ugric thread, Uralic may not have a tree pattern like IE, but be like a braided river, with the Y marker being from Ugrians moving west into Finnic territory, with Finnic and Ugric speakers becoming more similar to each other through borrowing (and Lapps and Samoyeds switching to Uralic tonges from previous languages). I'm guessing Germans are different genetically from scandinavians since thier ancestors were part of the Madelanian sphere of influence, eventually becoming the central European Celts when the IEians came through, and then were Germanized when the Proto-West Germanic speakers moved into the region during the classical period (I remeber reading that the cultural transition zone between Germanic and Celtic was quite wide, maybe representing recent Germanization).



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