This was an excellent post John. In late June of this year, Rudi and Anne Schneider took me to the Neander valley near Dusseldorf to see the Neanderthal Museum. It was fascinating and Rudi and I spent about 3 hours there. But I didn't feel a connection to it. The next week we went to the Kraichgau and Rudi, Horst Schmidt-Boecking and I visited the new archaeology exhibit at the Palace at Bruchsal. This is an exhibit of the dig being done on the grounds of a school near Flinnsbach, which we visited 3 years ago thanks to Cary Anderson's Walke cousin from Flinnsbach. After an hour in this new exhibit, I suddenly felt a real connection to it. Perhaps it was because my ancestors came from the area and perhaps I saw an ancestor's bones, or maybe it was just a feeling, but it was very real to me. This exhibit is from the cro magnon epoch and well worth seeing, as there are several thousand artifacts including bones, tools, pottery and weapons. The Germanna Foundation trips have always included a visit to Bruchsal (which is just a few miles from Neuenburg) but I don't know if they saw this new exhibit when they were there this past June. Anyway thanks for the great incite into Mr. Sykes' book. Thom ----- Original Message ----- From: <john.blankenbaker@comcast.net> To: <germanna_colonies@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 11:22 AM Subject: [GERMANNA] The Seven Daughters of Eve > The Seven Daughters of Eve > > This book, by Bryan Sykes, was mentioned here recently. It sounded > interesting and I have just finished reading it. I recommend it to > everyone for a good read. > > The thesis of book is that ninety-five or more percent of the people > living in Europe are descended from just seven different women. Some of > these women go back 45,000 years and some are as recent as 10,000 years > ago.