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The Pontic Greek geneticist Lazaridis objected to me defining Europe genetically on X and then his fellow West Asian chauvanist Taleb, a Lebanese who calls himself a “Phoenician” jumped in with some very balanced criticism

https://x.com/iosif_lazaridis/status/1927720024392827052?s=46
My lad caught his first Perch yesterday
Wild strawberries for breakfast
FAO: lads down under. TICKETS
Oh Indra! Borne by thy swift chariot, cut down the Mondays which the cat hates!
To combat “eurocentric” ideas a British teaching charity is to tell schoolchildren that Vikings were not all white.
Every known Viking genetic sample is white
Harvard’s adgap tool lets you compare phenotype frequencies of populations.

It shows Iron age Italians had signifcantly higher light pigment alelle frequencies than contemporary east med pops. Republic era Romans more closely resembled Celts than East Meds in this regard.

Late Brone age Levant pops have 15% frequency of important light pigment marker SLC24A5, Iron age Italians had 90% frequency
A talk I delivered at Exeter University
Ho pubblicato i sottotitoli in italiano per il mio documentario sulle Saghe d'Islanda
NEW FILM on YouTube
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'Sagas of the Raven Land' is a history documentary in which historian Tom Rowsell journeys to Iceland, immersing himself in the landscapes that inspired the Icelandic sagas of the Viking Age. He rides native horses across the fells, bathes in hot springs, and traces the footsteps of legendary saga heroes like Eirik the Red and Egill Skallagrimsson.

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Bronze age cist burial. These were used in parts of Britain such as Scotland and Dartmoor and somewhat resemble Neolithic chambered stone tombs but they are much smaller and seem to be made for an individual burial - like a coffin.

They can contain rich grave goods including metal weapons
Bronze Age British priest performing funeral ritual. The grieving relatives collect the deceased’s ashes and bones in an urn while a hole in the barrow is prepared to inter it
The Beaker folk liked to place their barrows on prominent places and this is about as prominent as it gets. Gallantry Bower is a Bronze age bell barrow right on the edge of a high cliff on the coast of North Devon. Its on a spectacular walking trail near Clovelly.
Looking out to sea from a Bronze age barrow. Bude, Cornwall
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