Re: SCOTLAND DNA E
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In reply to:
SCOTLAND DNA E
jan lala 6/21/07
While E3b is believed to have come out of the Middle East it was NINE THOUSAND years ago and became very widespread.It may refer to Jewish or Protestants who left the Iberian Peninsula in the 1500s, with some becoming French Huguenots, and coming to Scotland from there, or may reflect Romans, Phoenicians, etc.
"Phoenicians and other traders from the Mediterranean may have brought E3b to Britain in the centuries before
Christ. It could also been brought to Britain in more recent times by Iberian sailors, Viking slave traders or
Norman administrators and Flemish merchants of Portuguese Sephardic ancestry.
Almost certainly, it arrived with Roman troops and settlers from such places as Mauretania, Asturias, Syria
and Mesopotamia. The population of Roman Britain is now thought to have been between 3 and 4 million, greater
than at any other time until the late Middle Ages. Respected scholars believe that at least 75 percent of
the English population has some Roman DNA.
In fact, much of the E3b in the Germany/Denmark sample may have originated during the Roman settlement of the Rhineland in such places as Cologne ("Colonia" in Latin).
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