Thursday, 18 June 2020

DNA from ancient Irish tomb reveals incest and an elite class that ruled early farmers

quote [ “To go from [NG10] to saying these are proto-state societies where you have a godlike elite is pushing it a bit far,” says University of Manchester archaeologist Julian Thomas. “It’s one guy.”
[…]
One way to settle the debate is to look at similar passage tombs built on the Orkney Islands and in Wales and France. “The question is whether this arose in Ireland or whether they were importing existing social structures into the island ]

Some concepts on early hierarchies.
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[by Paracetamol@7:56pmGMT]

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zarathustra said @ 1:06am GMT on 19th Jun [Score:1 Funsightful]
Last night I was rereading some Robert E. Howard and in The Children of The Night the statement was made that "No one knows, as yet, why people of British and Irish ancestry tend to grow unusually tall in the Darling district of Australia—Cornstalks, as they are called—or why people of such descent generally have thinner jaw-structures after a few generations in New England."

Now we know. They stopped fuckin' inbreeding.
rylex said @ 2:05am GMT on 20th Jun
im sure we will soon hear about how they're related to the rothschilds

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