Genome analysis shows mass migration of Stone Age farmers from Fertile Crescent and Bronze Age settlers from eastern Europe was foundation of Celtic populationScientists from Dublin and Belfast maintain looked deep into Ireland’s early history to discover a still-familiar sample 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 5000 years in the bones of a woman farmer unearthed from a tomb in Ballynahatty, near Belfast, or in the remains of three men who lived between 3000 and 4000 years ago and were buried on Rathlin Island in County Antrim. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com