berun
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Sorry for this TheSun-like tittle... but looking at those maps it's possible to guess that it's somewhat true...
annual rainfall in UK:
its land use:
of course crops (barley, wheat) need rainfall (for wheat the minimum is around 400 mm), but also too much is not good (from +900 mm), and by that the British Isles can be divided between as pro-herding and pro-farming lands.
ethnic map, IX century:
almost a full match.
For Y-DNA the "Celtic" R1b-L21 is the major clade in the Celtic Nations, being its "English" counterpart R1b-U106 (S21):
We know that L21 came to the isles with Bell Beakers, but it's suggested that U106 might be the late footprint of the Germanic invaders. But, why only U106 is so attached to farming lands where the other possible Germanic haplos are not keeping a "logical" distribution? It's possible that U106 also entered with Bell Beakers then? (in this case each clade would prefer those lands more suitable for their traditional herding or farming economies, or each clade was developed inside economical communities).
I think that similar maps with rainfall / crops / peoples / Y-DNA could be done with Iraq Kurds or Pakistan's Balochis.
annual rainfall in UK:
its land use:
of course crops (barley, wheat) need rainfall (for wheat the minimum is around 400 mm), but also too much is not good (from +900 mm), and by that the British Isles can be divided between as pro-herding and pro-farming lands.
ethnic map, IX century:
almost a full match.
For Y-DNA the "Celtic" R1b-L21 is the major clade in the Celtic Nations, being its "English" counterpart R1b-U106 (S21):
We know that L21 came to the isles with Bell Beakers, but it's suggested that U106 might be the late footprint of the Germanic invaders. But, why only U106 is so attached to farming lands where the other possible Germanic haplos are not keeping a "logical" distribution? It's possible that U106 also entered with Bell Beakers then? (in this case each clade would prefer those lands more suitable for their traditional herding or farming economies, or each clade was developed inside economical communities).
I think that similar maps with rainfall / crops / peoples / Y-DNA could be done with Iraq Kurds or Pakistan's Balochis.