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posted by Fnord666 on Friday February 23 2018, @11:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the neolithic-brexit dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

The ancient population of Britain was almost completely replaced by newcomers about 4,500 years ago, a study shows.

The findings mean modern Britons trace just a small fraction of their ancestry to the people who built Stonehenge.

The astonishing result comes from analysis of DNA extracted from 400 ancient remains across Europe.

The mammoth study, published in Nature, suggests the newcomers, known as Beaker people, replaced 90% of the British gene pool in a few hundred years.

Lead author Prof David Reich, from Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, US, said: "The magnitude and suddenness of the population replacement is highly unexpected."

The reasons remain unclear, but climate change, disease and ecological disaster could all have played a role.

People in Britain lived by hunting and gathering until agriculture was introduced from continental Europe about 6,000 years ago. These Neolithic farmers, who traced their origins to Anatolia (modern Turkey) built giant stone (or "megalithic") structures such as Stonehenge in Wiltshire, huge Earth mounds and sophisticated settlements such as Skara Brae in the Orkneys.

But towards the end of the Neolithic, about 4,450 years ago, a new way of life spread to Britain from Europe. People began burying their dead with stylised bell-shaped pots, copper daggers, arrowheads, stone wrist guards and distinctive perforated buttons.

Co-author Dr Carles Lalueza-Fox, from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) in Barcelona, Spain, said the Beaker traditions probably started "as a kind of fashion" in Iberia after 5,000 years ago.

From here, the culture spread very fast by word of mouth to Central Europe. After it was adopted by people in Central Europe, it exploded in every direction - but through the movement of people.

Prof Reich told BBC News: "Archaeologists ever since the Second World War have been very sceptical about proposals of large-scale movements of people in prehistory. But what the genetics are showing - with the clearest example now in Britain at Beaker times - is that these large-scale migrations occurred, even after the spread of agriculture."

[...] The Nature study examines the Beaker phenomenon across Europe using DNA from hundreds more samples, including remains from Holland, Spain, the Czech Republic, Italy and France.

Another intriguing possibility links the Beaker people with the spread of Celtic languages. Although many linguistics experts believe Celtic spread thousands of years later, Dr Lalueza-Fox said: "In my view, the massive population turnover must be accompanied by a language replacement."


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @04:38AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @04:38AM (#642880)

    Can you tell us why the majority of individuals supporting the mass immigration of sub-Saharan Africans into the West happen to be Jewish? I'm not alt-right or anything, I just have an inkling you may have the answers to these questions. Thanks in advance...

    Well, since you asked so nicely, I'll tell you.

    We (your masters and owners) over at the International Jewish Conspiracy (IJC) have long coveted more land. In the late 1960s, we decided that land should be Europe. It's not too far from Jerusalem, has significant infrastructure and is populated by morons like you.

    We determined that the best way to depopulate Europe so we could walk right in was to create "islamic" (we always belly laugh at that one during our meetings) terror groups to destabilize the middle east and north Africa, sending wave after wave of poor, frightened refugees to overwhelm European resources. We peppered those groups with highly trained, arab looking Mossad operatives to sow discontent among the refugees and the europeans, putting them at each other's throats.

    That part of the plan is well under way, so we're now moving to phase III (sorry, can't let the cat out of the bag about that or our plan might move more slowly), but the end goal is for the Eurotrash and the sand niggers to kill each other off almost completely, then we'll come in and mop up.

    Our evil and nefarious plan, The Jewish Master Race Real Estate Expansion Plan (JEEP for short) will leave Europe in our greedy, grasping, poison in the well, christian baby eating hands. So. Now you know. Not that there's anything you can do about it, you goy moron. BWAHAHAHAHA!! BWAHAHAHAHA! BWAHAHAHAHA!

    The status report I got along with my most recent IJC dividend check says that everything is going according to plan and to schedule. Good times!

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Arik on Saturday February 24 2018, @05:26AM (3 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Saturday February 24 2018, @05:26AM (#642890) Journal
    "We peppered those groups with highly trained, arab looking Mossad operatives to sow discontent among the refugees and the europeans, putting them at each other's throats."

    Shibboleth Sibelit. If European agencies are competent such plans would likely come to naught. An occasional partial success doesn't threaten civilization.

    If European agencies are underfunded undercompetent and in fact submissive... oops.

    Yeah, sorry, reality does suck at times.

    But it's not my fault and blaming me for it or accusing me of dishonestly supporting malfeasance is simply wrong at best.

    I can't fix a fundamentally unjust world with the snap of my fingers. I'm not Joshua. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRZ1ePEmhsk)

    Just a smart guy that tries to do what he can. Don't exaggerate my power. Don't minimize my goodwill.
    --
    If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @06:01AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @06:01AM (#642904)

      Are you this gullible IRL?

      If so, would you like to engage in a *very* profitable business enterprise?

      • (Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday February 24 2018, @06:06AM

        by Arik (4543) on Saturday February 24 2018, @06:06AM (#642908) Journal
        Not gullible enough to think that your offer is worth my time.
        --
        If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @06:21AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @06:21AM (#642911)
        (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uia2EzrZMTE)