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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ytielts" <ytielts@...> wrote:
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> Dear all,
> Have any remains been found and identified as long-headed, blond-
> haired, blue-eyed and white-skinned peoples in Norway or Sweden or
> Denmark or any other European location before the so called Indo-
> European speakers spread from their homeland, wherever it might be?
>
We don't have many samples. Genes are more accurate, although they
can also deceive us. At the moment I think the consensus would be
that genetics has indicated a surprising amount of stability in the
genetic make up of Europeans. There are however signs of Eastern
European and Central Asian genes having been spread around Europe
from Scandinavia and what is now Northern Germany - presumably in the
Dark Ages. For example Y DNA haplotypes like I and R1a.
For example many Scottish men have an R1a haplotype most similar to
Central Asians which seems to have come with the Norse, as it is
common there, but no where else in the vicinity. (Most R1a people in
Britain apart from these ones are Ashkenazi Jewish.)
Concerning large scale movements before then, either they are hidden
for whatever reason or, quite logically, they simply weren't very big
because to move large distances was not easy.
Best Regards
Andrew