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Peckham Wry
Firstly, sorry for the atrocious spelling last night, I blame it on the Valerian, but then speelung never been good me, etc Lots of maps to pour over here http://www.reading.ac.uk/archaeolog...ts_files/Museum_nan_Eilean_talk_July_2012.pdf
The latest of these , Sheridan 2010, neglects any notion of anyone getting to Orkney at all,odd given that only 1 year early other researchers hade proposed a full bi-directional highway - thats the true fun of prehistory, endless speculation. The sail may not yet have been invented but paddles and oars still popular with the Romans, were being used, unlike stone, they do not survive, we have few example of neolithic boats but:- Ancient Genomes Indicate Population Replacement in Early Neolithic Britain - an analysis of farmer arrivals based on genomic studies absed on marker distribution from the original Western Hunter Gatherer(WHG) and later populations. Its v dense and technical, but worth the time ploughing through if you can -well I suspect, as I tried but was unable to really fully understabd, good luck - they do kindly present summaries though
"The six British Mesolithic genomes examined here are typical of WHGs, indicating that this population spread to the furthest northwestern point of early Holocene Europe after moving from southeastern Europe, or further east, from approximately 12,000 BCE17. This genetic similarity among British and European Mesolithic individuals spans a period in Britain (ca. 8,500-4,000 BCE) that includes the cultural transition to the Late Mesolithic and the separation of Britain from continental Europe. Our analyses indicate that the appearance of Neolithic practices and domesticates in Britain ca. 4,000 BCE was mediated overwhelmingly by immigration of farmers from continental Europe1–2, and strongly reject the hypothesised adoption of farming by indigenous hunter-gatherers as the main process3. British farmers were substantially descended from Iberian Neolithic-related populations whose ancestors had expanded along a Mediterranean route6, 11, although with a minority portion of their ancestry from populations who took the Danubian route12. The affinities we find between Neolithic individuals from the British Isles and modern individuals from France are consistent with populations sharing ancestry with Neolithic groups in Iberia moving into northern France via the Atlantic seaboard and/or southern France, mixing to a limited degree with Neolithic populations from Central Europe before travelling across the Channel1–2, 30.
One explanation for the British Neolithic cline in WHG ancestry is that a single population moved across Britain from a western entry point, and progressively admixed with local hunter-gatherers. This scenario is consistent with the western distribution of megalithic cultures along the Atlantic seaboard31, and is supported by the radiocarbon evidence suggesting a marginally earlier date for the arrival of ANF ancestry in the west of Britain1 "
There is a wealth of verifiable reseach for the expansion of the orig farmer thru the Med by boat, plus many many megalithic sites in Spain and Portugal to mark their passing. The continuity of purpose with reference to religious sites is fairly well established, we currently lack the proof, but I suspect continuity of travel routes - much like animal migrations - the common mememory of these routes could last thousands of years and perhaps explain the presence of cultural and language similarities dotted along the West Coast from Galicia, Britany, Cornwall, that are prtially mutually intelligble today. Anyway, enough propaganda for my own obsession
The latest of these , Sheridan 2010, neglects any notion of anyone getting to Orkney at all,odd given that only 1 year early other researchers hade proposed a full bi-directional highway - thats the true fun of prehistory, endless speculation. The sail may not yet have been invented but paddles and oars still popular with the Romans, were being used, unlike stone, they do not survive, we have few example of neolithic boats but:- Ancient Genomes Indicate Population Replacement in Early Neolithic Britain - an analysis of farmer arrivals based on genomic studies absed on marker distribution from the original Western Hunter Gatherer(WHG) and later populations. Its v dense and technical, but worth the time ploughing through if you can -well I suspect, as I tried but was unable to really fully understabd, good luck - they do kindly present summaries though
"The six British Mesolithic genomes examined here are typical of WHGs, indicating that this population spread to the furthest northwestern point of early Holocene Europe after moving from southeastern Europe, or further east, from approximately 12,000 BCE17. This genetic similarity among British and European Mesolithic individuals spans a period in Britain (ca. 8,500-4,000 BCE) that includes the cultural transition to the Late Mesolithic and the separation of Britain from continental Europe. Our analyses indicate that the appearance of Neolithic practices and domesticates in Britain ca. 4,000 BCE was mediated overwhelmingly by immigration of farmers from continental Europe1–2, and strongly reject the hypothesised adoption of farming by indigenous hunter-gatherers as the main process3. British farmers were substantially descended from Iberian Neolithic-related populations whose ancestors had expanded along a Mediterranean route6, 11, although with a minority portion of their ancestry from populations who took the Danubian route12. The affinities we find between Neolithic individuals from the British Isles and modern individuals from France are consistent with populations sharing ancestry with Neolithic groups in Iberia moving into northern France via the Atlantic seaboard and/or southern France, mixing to a limited degree with Neolithic populations from Central Europe before travelling across the Channel1–2, 30.
One explanation for the British Neolithic cline in WHG ancestry is that a single population moved across Britain from a western entry point, and progressively admixed with local hunter-gatherers. This scenario is consistent with the western distribution of megalithic cultures along the Atlantic seaboard31, and is supported by the radiocarbon evidence suggesting a marginally earlier date for the arrival of ANF ancestry in the west of Britain1 "
There is a wealth of verifiable reseach for the expansion of the orig farmer thru the Med by boat, plus many many megalithic sites in Spain and Portugal to mark their passing. The continuity of purpose with reference to religious sites is fairly well established, we currently lack the proof, but I suspect continuity of travel routes - much like animal migrations - the common mememory of these routes could last thousands of years and perhaps explain the presence of cultural and language similarities dotted along the West Coast from Galicia, Britany, Cornwall, that are prtially mutually intelligble today. Anyway, enough propaganda for my own obsession
