ancestors of ireland may have been Basques who are not Celts nor speak a Celtic language

In a June 2007 article in Prospect, Stephen Oppenheimer of Oxford makes the case that our ancestors may have been Basques who are not Celts nor speak a Celtic language. When one studies the southern extent of the last ice sheet, one can easily imagine the Basques being isolated for centuries from the remainder of the R1 Y-Chromosome people, who retreated south and who make up the basic stock of the Celtic fringe population. From what I've read, Oppenheimer is willing to share his raw data but not his methodology for segmenting the R1B Haplogroup into 14 subsets.


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