Studies Suggests Neolithic Britons Killed Off By Bubonic Plague

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moss M
moss Feb 23, 2018 11:16:41
Replying to Monganaut

Monganaut wrote:
Interesting little article in the Independent. Apparently our Neolithic forbears were of Mediterranean/Middle Eastern origin and were 90% were wiped out by plague carried by 'Beaker' incomers. Now that's something that I hadn't considered for the large cultural shift during the Bronze Age. The article states that that only Sardinia has remnants of it's original Neolithic population.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stonehenge-neolithic-britain-history-ancestors-plague-archaeology-beaker-people-a8222341.html

Also in the Daily Tory
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5413607/Neolithic-farmers-wiped-Beaker-people.html

Different mag suggests that Bronze Age plague not spread by fleas.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/10/bronze-age-plague-wasnt-spread-fleas

Cambridge Archaeology
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/plague-in-humans-twice-as-old-but-didnt-begin-as-flea-borne-ancient-dna-reveals

A couple of other articles worth a butchers too...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5420077/Researchers-discovered-new-prehistoric-migration-paths.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5419511/Ancient-cave-drawings-led-modern-lanuages.html

And then, along came the blue-eyed people. I have read and heard that modern day DNA is a bit up the creek, go to two or more services for DNA and you get completely different answers on your make-up. Does it matter? ;)

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/blue-eyed-steppe-people-britons-ancestors-not-builders-stonehenge/

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Feb 23, 2018 14:11:46
Replying to moss

moss wrote:
Monganaut wrote:
Interesting little article in the Independent. Apparently our Neolithic forbears were of Mediterranean/Middle Eastern origin and were 90% were wiped out by plague carried by 'Beaker' incomers. Now that's something that I hadn't considered for the large cultural shift during the Bronze Age. The article states that that only Sardinia has remnants of it's original Neolithic population.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stonehenge-neolithic-britain-history-ancestors-plague-archaeology-beaker-people-a8222341.html

Also in the Daily Tory
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5413607/Neolithic-farmers-wiped-Beaker-people.html

Different mag suggests that Bronze Age plague not spread by fleas.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/10/bronze-age-plague-wasnt-spread-fleas

Cambridge Archaeology
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/plague-in-humans-twice-as-old-but-didnt-begin-as-flea-borne-ancient-dna-reveals

A couple of other articles worth a butchers too...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5420077/Researchers-discovered-new-prehistoric-migration-paths.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5419511/Ancient-cave-drawings-led-modern-lanuages.html

And then, along came the blue-eyed people. I have read and heard that modern day DNA is a bit up the creek, go to two or more services for DNA and you get completely different answers on your make-up. Does it matter? ;)

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/blue-eyed-steppe-people-britons-ancestors-not-builders-stonehenge/

And if the past is anything to go by, it'll be all change again before too long!

M Monganaut
Monganaut Feb 23, 2018 15:02:07
Replying to moss

Ha Ha, oh well, never mind, back to the drawing board.

I read those ancestry DNA kits are a bit shit too, a friend had one done, and apparently he was a bit disappointed he came from all over (no real surprises really considering what a mongrol nation the UK is).