Celtic Origins


Brian  McEvoy, B,  M. Richards, P. Forster
& DG.  Bradley  (2004)
"The Longue Durée of Genetic Ancestry: Multiple
Genetic Marker Systems  and Celtic Origins on
the Atlantic Facade of Europe"
Am J Hum Genet. October 2004; 75(4): 693-702.

 " Celtic languages are now spoken only on the
   Atlantic facade of Europe, mainly in Britain and
   Ireland, but were spoken more widely in western
   and central Europe until the collapse of the
   Roman Empire in the first millennium a.d.
   It has been common to couple archaeological
   evidence for the expansion of Iron Age elites in
   central Europe with the dispersal of these
   languages and of Celtic ethnicity and to posit a
   central European "homeland" for the Celtic
   peoples. More recently, however, archaeologists
   have questioned this "migrationist" view of Celtic
   ethnogenesis. "
   [...].
 " What seems clear is that neither the mtDNA
   pattern nor that of the Y-chromosome markers
   supports a substantially central European Iron
   Age origin for most Celtic speakers-or former
   Celtic speakers-of the Atlantic facade. The
   affinities of the areas where Celtic languages are
   spoken, or were formerly spoken, are generally
   with other regions in the Atlantic zone, from
   northern Spain to northern Britain. Although
   some level of Iron Age immigration into Britain
   and Ireland could probably never be ruled out by
   the use of modern genetic data, these results
   point toward a distinctive Atlantic genetic
   heritage with roots in the processes at the end
   of the last Ice Age. "

For the full, long, abstract with maps and full refs,
see on PubMed  http://tinyurl.com/8sxpe

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