Re: [tied] Re: Europeans descend from Basques...

Dear Friends,

    The Basques have been giving this group a lot of food for thought.

    Does anyone consider it possible that Europe was once populated by many tribes using similar languages and that their survival pattern followed that of the Neanderthals who once inhabited all of Europe and the Near East?

    The last pockets of Neanderthals are also speculated to have lived in the Pyrennes Mountains and perhaps other parts of the Iberian penninsula.

   My personal belief is that the Basque territory was not the Urheimat of the Basque people, only their last refuge in Europe where a pocket managed to survive.

    Here is a case where mtDNA studies might help.

Best Regards, John
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