Posted on 03/06/2007 8:01:58 PM PST by blam
I'm claiming China as my birthright.
BTW, there's zero ancient DNA evidence for any other race than Caucasian in the British Isles.
"distinct tartan "scottish" pattern" - Thought the "Scots" arrived via Ireland ca 800 AD. a few years "later".
Caucasian isn't a race, it's an ethnicity.
Western Europeans, other than perhaps the Etruscans and the Basques, are not descended from caucasians but from Indo-Europeans. The Caucasians probably were the first there, and probably built the menhirs. Then came the Indo-Europeans out of the steppes, and the Caucasians were submerged.
The British Isle folks are Caucasians overlaid by Indo-Europeans, and mostly Indo-European.
But who knows.
The Caucasian race (sometimes called the Caucasoid race) is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as, "relating to a broad division of humankind covering peoples from Europe, western Asia, Middle East, parts of India and North Africa" or "white-skinned; of European origin" or "relating to the region of the Caucasus in SE Europe."[1]
In Europe (especially in Russia and the surrounding area), Caucasian usually refers exclusively to people who are from the Caucasus region or speak the Caucasian languages.
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