tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post6501250322328841014..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Ancient mtDNA from Santimamiñe CaveDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-16134478250083616452013-01-19T02:01:54.043+02:002013-01-19T02:01:54.043+02:00The question that this doesn't resolve is whet...The question that this doesn't resolve is whether the Basque ethnogenesis took place in the Bronze Age, the Copper Age, the early Neolithic, or sometime in the Upper Paleolithic as indigeneous peoples of Iberia.<br /><br />I have made the case that Basque ethnogenesis coincides with and has its source in the Bell-Beaker culture. Bell Beaker starts elsewhere in Iberia and only later arrives in Basque Country, from France, but elsewhere it succumbs to successive outside Indo-European Urnfield, Celtic and Roman influences. In my view, Bell Beaker which was part of a cultural tradition preserved most completely in the Basque today, is also the main source of Y-DNA haplogroup R1b in Western and Northern Europe - i.e. Bell Beaker involved a major demic component, particularly but not entirely on the paternal side.<br /><br />The most recent result is not inconsistent with that scenario since 2000 BCE is very close to the end of the Bell Beaker era. It does rule out any possible later date for Basque ethnogenesis. <br /><br />But, it doesn't distinguish between a scenario that sees Bell Beaker as a source of major demographic change in Western Europe including Basque country, and an alternative scenario in which Basque culture (and R1b) is either the indigeneous culture of that region back to the LGM refugia or before, or has more remote historical origins than the Bell Beaker era (e.g. Epipaleolithic, or early Neolithic). andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172964121659914379noreply@blogger.com