Romans and Germans

I've no links to share right now, but the dismissing the "Celtic descent vs German descent" idea doesn't make much sense to me. There are traits that can be followed genetically which "belong" to each group ("belong" being used loosely, since they are all fundamentally mutations). There was a study on TV once where Norse genes were tracked down throughout Britain, and another study where a certain gene which belonged to Genghis Khan was tracked down throughout Britain (the number of people with the gene was surprisingly voluminous). It's all very interesting stuff.

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Originally Posted by the Count of Flanders

Genetics studies have shown that Belgians and English (so I assume the same goes for the French) are, genetically speaking, more then 80% (don't remember exactly, IIRC it was 86 %) of germanic descent, so technically the gauls didn't entirely disappear but I certainly wouldn't call modern western europeans "of gaelic descent".

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I life in southern Germany and I want to give some remarks on the genetic (even though I am no expert):

Were I live is a river that traditionally seperates the Germanian tribes of the Bavarian and the Allomanian. Even today you can find different DNA footprints. And belief me every kind of nationality marched through this area. Another example can be found in Turkey. There is a village were the people claim to descend from Alexander's army. And modern DNA analysis foung that this is right. You find the same pattern as you do in Greece, while the environment has a "Turkish" pattern. Acient reports tell that Alexander left here some wounded soldiers.

When the Saxons conquered Briton they didn't allow the male Britons to marry (=to get children). They themselves married the Saxon girls. So there was a quick penetration of Saxonian DNA. That didn't happen in France.

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Which village is that? Interesting.

Reminds me of the English suburban where the people were DNA-relatives of the cromagnon skeleton found in a nearby cave.
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Ah, but the same was said about the Kafirs in Afghanistan... they were supposedly descended from the Macedonian/Greek soldiers left by Alexander when he descended down from the Hindu Kush to the Swat highlands. This legend was told from the time of Marco Polo, and is still widely percieved true, but antropological research has proved them to be something entirely different from Greeks, Macedonians, Indians or the Afgans.

Although I must say a Pashtuni friend of mine greatly admires the Kafirs... not for their tales, their architecture nor their language... but for their ladies! ~D



~Wiz

there is supposed to be some village in the swiss? alps, that look like all the other people in the region but their dna can be traced to asia and people reckon its from some of atilla's boys who got lost or defeated or something.