Re: Integrating linguistics, archaeology, genetics and paleoclimato

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

> Certainly M17 appears to be the Indo-European marker,
> whilst M343 R1b appears to be the marker of the pre-Indo-European
> substrate in Western Europe.

This seems to be incompatible with the widespread view that the IE
languages did not spread by massive migrations, but merely by the take-
over of a new elite that imposed its language on the local population.
Can that be true? Did the locals not propagate their genes? Did the
IEs just wipe them out? Interesting questions - any answers?

Jens