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Greetings. There’s a question (granted, it’s not the most original one) that has always puzzled me and to which I’ve never found a very convincing answer: how did the Normans subjugate England so quickly, so (relatively) easily, so thoroughly and with so few men? Of course Hastings was very...

Judging by the Bruce Y-DNA Project, it appears that King Robert the Bruce could have belonged to R1b-S7432, which is right below DF27>ZZ12>ZZ41: https://www.familytreedna.com/public/bruce?iframe=yresults https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/bruce/about/goals...

Out of curiosity, I have made a list of (apparent) cognates between modern Italic/Romance languages and modern Celtic languages, using online dictionaries. I purposely chose only "primitive" concepts, for which there would already have been words to express around the time of the Italic-Celtic...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2453857/Scientists-trace-19-living-relatives-tzi-Iceman-5-300-year-old-body-frozen-Alps.html Ötzi lives on. :cool2:

Everyone knows there is a fairly logical correlation between R1b-M269 and Indo-European languages in Western Europe. However, looking at linguistic maps of pre-Roman Iberia, and comparing them to current haplogroup distribution maps, one can't help noticing that the entire eastern Iberia and the...

Just a little speculation on the possible origins of the Y-haplogroups present among the Spanish and Portuguese... My suggestions within each haplogroup are in a decreasing order of likeliness (in my view). R1b (69% Sp, 56% Pt) - Alpine Celts/Lusitanians/Proto-Celtic Indo European speakers...