Re: linguistics, archaeology, genetics and paleoclima

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>

On what we've been calling the Pamela type:

> You find them mostly outside the cities these days. And
> they are going fast (people of other than Danish origin, mostly
> Muslim: whole country 6%, Copenhagen 15%, under-18, whole country
> 15%, Copenhagen 30%, up from 0% in 1960). But as the newspaper
> Politiken hastily added, it's not a problem.

Of course change is the very stuff of demography. What is happening
now offers fascinating parallels with processes that took place in
the distant past. And it poses interesting challenges. If you are
worried you might consider applying for protected status.

I'd said:

> >(It is probably for a reason that Pamela is called
> > Anderson.)

> Which is a Swedish name, [...]

Of course it is, I'm well aware of the difference between Danish and
Swedish (what with my wife's mother, who falls well within the range
of the Pamela type, hailing from Djursland) and it is not for nothing
that I talked in terms of "Denmark and adjacent areas".

> Brachycephalic skulls appear in graves in Denmark from the
> Neolithic, whatever relevance that might have.

That's nice.


W.