Very interesting information. And now, the $64 question, "Who were the
Picts?"


Thanks,

Bill Hobbs


Paul Drake wrote:

>FYI: Courtesy of Teresa Del Rios of El Salvador.  Paul Drake JD
>
>Subject: Origins of Red Hair in the UK
>
>Some of you might be interested in the several paras, below, which I've
>taken from an article which appeared in a leading UK national daily
>newspaper on 6 June.
>
>"According to David Miles, a research fellow at Oxford University, the
>first people to inhabit the British Isles had flame coloured hair and
>pale, freckled skin. Archaeologist Mr Miles claims Scots can trace their
>ancestors back to the red-headed nomads who arrived  in UK more than
>14000 years ago. He said the first settlers came to Britain in about
>12000 BC from parts of what are now Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark.
>He added that these original hunter-gatherers would have been relatively
>tall with very little body fat, athletic and would have had red hair.
>Scotland has the highest percentage of redheads in the world, with some
>estimates suggesting they make up as much as 13 % of the population.
>
>Mr Miles believes 80% of the genetic characterist! ics of the average
>white Briitish person can be traced to the first human settlers of the Ice
>Age The other 20% derive from the Celts who he believes were a Semitic
>race of farmers from Syria and Israel. These settlers had become a
>population of millions before the arrival of the Vikings and other
>incomers. Mr Miles said that subsequent invaders like the Anglo-Saxons,
>Romans
>and the Normans had very little genetic impact Their impact was largely
>cultural and linguistic".
>
>Mr Miles has expounded his ideas in a book, The Tribes of Britain,
>based on a science apparently known as "archeogenetics".
>
>To my mind the most interesting of Mr Miles remarks concern the Celts
>who, he believes, were a Semitic race of farmers from Syria and Israel.
>I've always speculated that my E3b Haplogroup (centrered in the Eastern
>Mediterranean area) was the result of a Roman soldier's dalliance with
>a Border wench whilst the soldier was part of the Hadrian Wall
>garrisons. I now take back that speculation. That Haplogroup classification
>seems no longer to be at odds with my red hair (when much younger) and
>pale skin of the so-called typical Celt.
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