MOESAN
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- Location
- Brittany
- Ethnic group
- more celtic
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- R1b - L21/S145*
- mtDNA haplogroup
- H3c
I think some Celtic inputs may have been masked by some others inputs, these last ones from Southern Italy, making an autosomes mixture very close to the preceding one (which was without them), hiding some historical mixtures. I agree with a very dominant continuity, but not with a so total one. I speak here of Celts, but other minorities could have played a role, even if light. These balanced autosomes inputs combinated are very hard to disintangle I think and need very subtle and precise analysis to be put under light.I never denied contact. The problem here is that you are unable to differentiate between contact and large scale population exchanges which are two very different events. Italics from all over northern Italy certainly had contact and established trade networks with Celts and Illyrians and nobody denies this. What I reject is that idea that there is any significant evidence to support the four suppositions you've vaguely and dogmatically put forth which I've previously listed.
I think too that the Roman input in Gauls, magnified in old scholars times, is too understated these last years...
Agree otherwise against the nonsensical and garbage picture of Non-Mediterranean Europe + Near East = Italians - I forget almost completely North-African.