Contradictions in DNA Finding Prove the Brit-Am Position (23 February 2017, 27 Shevet, 5777)
Contents:
1. Letter from Tim Murray
2. New Items Concerning the Middle East and Steppe Dual Origins of Irish and Celtic Peoples
3. Irish Overwhelmingly YDNA R1b!
4. Brit-Am Commentary: Explaining Everything as Required!
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Greetings, Yair--
My daughter just sent me this link, and immediately I thought of you. This would be worth your while to read. I found it significant, though the time frame they gave it seemed a bit early. Glad to hear your "take" on it...
Tim Murray
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2. New Items Concerning the Middle East and Steppe Dual Origins of Irish and Celtic Peoples
Irish DNA originated in Middle East and Eastern Europe
Genome analysis shows mass migration of Stone Age farmers from Fertile Crescent and Bronze Age settlers from eastern Europe was foundation of Celtic population
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/dec/28/origins-of-the-irish-down-to-mass-migration-ancient-dna-confirms
Scientists from Dublin and Belfast have looked deep into Ireland's early history to discover a still-familiar pattern of migration: of stone age settlers with origins in the Fertile Crescent, and bronze age economic migrants who began a journey somewhere in eastern Europe.
The evidence has lain for more than 5,000 years in the bones of a woman farmer unearthed from a tomb in Ballynahatty, near Belfast, and in the remains of three men who lived between 3,000 and 4,000 years ago and were buried on Rathlin Island in County Antrim.
Scientists at Trinity College Dublin used a technique called whole-genome analysis to 'read' not the unique characteristics of each individual, but a wider history of ancestral migration and settlement in the DNA from all four bodies.
The ancestors of the Stone Age farmers began their journey in the Bible lands, where agriculture first began, and arrived in Ireland perhaps via the southern Mediterranean. They brought with them cattle, cereals, ceramics and a tendency to black hair and brown eyes.
These settlers were followed by people, initially from the Pontic steppe of southern Russia, who knew how to mine for copper and work with gold, and who carried the genetic variant for a blood disorder called haemochromatosis, a hereditary genetic condition so common in Ireland that it is sometimes called Celtic disease.
All three dead men from Rathlin Island carried what is now the most common type of Irish Y chromosome, inherited only from male forebears.
See Also:
How Irish fair skin can be traced to India and the Middle East
Sean Dunne
http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/the-light-skin-of-the-irish-can-be-traced-to-india-and-the-middle-east-239166271-239671671?utm_campaign=Best+of+IrishCentral+-+2017-02-21&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Mailjet#comments@IrishCentral
In short:
Irish people and all Europeans have genetic similarities to people in the Middle East and India.
People in Ireland come from two main points:
a. The Middle East.
b. The steppe region of southern Russia.
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3. Irish Overwhelmingly YDNA R1b!
Wikipedia. Irish People
In Ireland and the Basque Country its [R1b] frequency exceeds 90% and approaches 100% in Western Ireland.[23]
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4. Brit-Am Commentary: Explaining Everything as Required!
It could be claimed that originally Ireland was populated by a Middle East population. Along came the Steppe people from southern Russia, killed all the males, and kept the women.
This would explain how the Irish are overwhelmingly YDNA R1b.
Or the Steppe people could also have been R1b. Nowadays most inhabitants of the steppe region are R1a or some other group. Pockets of R1b however do exist.
OR
Brit-Am has another answer.
The chronology in the above studies is unreliable and contradicts other evidence.
What is probably the most likely scenario consistent with the evidence?
There was a migration directly form the Land of Israel in the Middle East to Ireland and the west.
There was also a movement to the steppe region and from there to the west.
All this happened around the years 700 - 500 BCE when there appear to have been changes in the heavens and in our solar system.
This may have affected the DNA.
After reaching Ireland further changes took place there and in neighboring Europe.
The YDNA changed from whatever it was to R1b.
How else can one explain that the YDNA of Ireland is fairly homogeneous whereas other DNA studies (of non-YDNA) show multiple orgins?