From: lsroute66@...
Message: 10654
Date: 2001-10-27
--- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
<<At any rate, and Piotr might have something to say here, it seems
rather doubtful that Poland was populated ca. 600 BC by
satem-speaking Indo-Iranians, carriers of Eu19. The Lusatian culture
was going strong, and Scythian hammer blows were still a century or
more away. Unfortunately, genes, things and languages do not
correlate that neatly.>>
Just a note about the point in my original post about the Scythian
incursions into "more central" Europe. Christiansen notes that the
Scythians don't give evidence of settling along the Danube after for
example Halstatt vacates. Therefore, this is an example of
potentially large depopulated areas occuring after the last haploid
is thought to have developed. The problem here the geneticists do
not seem to recognize is that such evidence of depopulation in
various
areas of Europe would in effect reshuffle the deck. The data may
thereforet reflect later recorded and unrecorded migrations that
really have little to do with the distribution of such genes in
5500BC.
Regards, Steve Long