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I don't know if anyone has ever seen his paintings in person, but as wonderful as they look in reproductions, it's nothing to the impact they make in person, partly because the paint is so thick it rises from the frame and it all becomes almost three dimensional. Another one of my favorites:

Yes, and my father carried U-152, which probably came in the late Bronze/Early Iron Age with Italic speakers. That's the point: there are NO pure ethnicities. Look at the English: farmers from the Near East replaced the hunter-gatherers, then we have Beaker type people coming in the Bronze...

There's so much wrong with that I don't even know where to begin. I don't know, as has been said, what these samples are and how they were obtained. Then, they have to be processed. I would doubt the capacity of someone who thinks Corded Ware are "pure steppe". Someone should inform him that...

Including the beautiful gardens and views of Castello Brown. Have to hand it to the classically educated British lovers of Italy: they had exquisite taste.

My favorite "Country" genre is Blue Grass. Best compilation is the sound track to the film "O Brother Where Art Thou", with George Clooney. Here is one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite Blue Grass groups:

Well, if you're going to go to a Celtic/Gallic burial site, you're pretty sure to find Celts/Gauls. Even worse if you only have samples from one such burial site. What about the previously Etruscan burial sites, as mentioned by Pax? Or, for that matter, burial sites in Roman "colonies"? I...

^^It seems still a work in progress, yes? :)

^^Could you please provide a source for your last comment. It seems counter-intuitive, as the Lombards came as family groups, i.e. a lot of women, and the Goths supposedly included a lot of young warriors instead.

Some people just don't get it. My mtDna, a branch of U2e2, is most common in the Scandinavian countries, Germany, and Great Britain. My closest personal match if someone with female ancestry from Ireland. The line from which our line descends seems to have a match in the area of Switzerland...

Thanks for the link to the article about seasonal vs almost year-round calving. Interesting, though, that seasonal calving still goes on, and still went on then in some areas. Doubtless because, as in the case I described, there might not be enough food for the cows over the winter. I...

Well, I guess you should come around more often. Plus, of course ancient Cypriots, before getting a big dose of CHG, would be EEF like. What else would they be?

Alison Krauss singing Vince Gill's song and he does the harmony. The only think that disappointed me was that he didn't play more guitar. He's an absolute master, as well as being a great singer. Alison is pitch perfect every time; a beautifully "pure" voice. One of the things I love about...

Very interesting article, Jose. Thanks for the link. People talk so much about the cold adaptation of Neanderthals that it never occurred to me that they actually couldn't live in the far northern zones which AMH could colonize because of their advanced technology. I guess that would explain...

If you're talking about "milk immunity", that's the immunity which baby humans get from the mother's, i.e. human milk. Cow milk is for baby cows. That's why many women, like me, chose to nurse their babies. Bovine milk "contains both immunoglobulins A and G, but in contrast to human milk where...

^^We're all still missing something, but I can't figure out what it is. Neolithic people had been consuming cheese and probably fermented yoghurt for thousands of years. Why wasn't that enough? Why did they have to start drinking milk? Plus, in those days cattle only calved what, once a year, so...

See: Earliest evidence of bow and arrow use outside Africa unearthed in France | CNN Was this one of homo sapiens' advantages over Neanderthal?

See: https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(23)00038-9#.Y-0NKLDceUs.twitter "Highlights •Extensive human TCR gene heterogeneity exists in both populations and individuals •TCR gene variations frequently involve coding changes and non-functional alleles •Neanderthal-derived TCR...

The Roald Dahl foundation has caved and announced that his entire oevre will be "edited" to take out insensitive and hurtful language. I honestly don't get it. I came to Roald Dahl rather late, because I had to learn English first, but I don't see how he could be offensive. What, because he...

RIP Raquel Welch. All of that and she could sing too.

See: https://nemets.substack.com/p/the-sons-of-chad "Many men among both the Laal, the Hausa, and other Chadic speaking peoples carry the Y chromosomal haplogroup R1b-V88. It puzzled scientists for a number of years as R1b lineages are most common in Europe, and there was no obvious connection...