[Unam Sanctam]

About 8,000 years ago, said Underhill, a more advanced people, the Neolithic, migrated to Europe from the Middle East, bringing with them a new Y chromosome pattern and a new way of life: agriculture. About 20 percent of Europeans now have the Y chromosome pattern from this migration, he said.

I wonder if these are the Indo-Europeans. If so, they imposed their language on the indigenous peoples. Perhaps everyone in Europe spoke an early version of Basque prior to that.

[maro]

My thought exactly. Does anyone know what the distribution of the 20% gene is?

[blam]

" Perhaps everyone in Europe spoke an early version of Basque prior to that."

That's my suspicions too.

[A. Pole]

I wonder if these are the Indo-Europeans. If so, they imposed their language on the indigenous peoples. Perhaps everyone in Europe spoke an early version of Basque prior to that.

Very likely - about 8000 years ago the Indo-European languages started to differentiate and there are some indication that it took place in highlands of Anatolia where agriculture and roots of civilisation took place before the valleys of Mesopotamia and Egypt.