Quote Originally Posted by Phil View Post
This article in today's press sheds some interesting light on the origins of Scots people from DNA evidence obtained. It sounds like Ireland might not have been the origin some here are claiming after all - http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman...tory-1-2465715 . Of course it would be interesting to see a similar study for Ireland as the theory seems to be that successive migrations from east to west pushed right to the Atlantic coast until they could go no further. This would seem to imply that mainland Britain was populated first in this way after the last Ice Age before spilling over into Ireland. Interesting too that Scottish women's DNA is older indicating that they didn't move around much while many men arrived later.
Good stuff. I have been waiting for the results while following the items in the news as the announcement got nearer. Interesting that a third of Scotsmen have Germanic, Teutonic, Alpine and Saxon Y chromosome DNA. Scots history has always had a number of immigrants coming in from Eastern Europe, not just workers and artisans but also significant additions to the Stewart royalty.