Re: from K. Julku, K. Wiik: The Roots and Peoples and Languages of N

From: tgpedersen
Message: 63335
Date: 2009-02-21

>  mtDNA in FU and IE speakers. This is
> hypothetical, and further, the thing you want it to mean is the
> opposite of the conclusion they reached in their paper.
>
> ****GK: Do they say where this difference might come from?

Erh, I think they want to try to find them first before they speculate
where they come from.


> If purely regional is this an indication of an even deeper
> substrate here? Or... what?...****

Yes. It means (if it's there) the local ladies were the products of
similar but different encounters in the past.

Here is one angle on how such an encounter might have taken place.
http://www.folklore.ee/Folklore/vol29/heroic.pdf


Torsten