Interesting feature on that map is that swath of darker color that isolates present-day Poland from Germany. What does the darker color mean? A different kind of vegetation or soil type? Kenneth Nordtvedt Haplogroup I Clade Modalities and Trees at: http://knordtvedt.home.bresnan.net -----Original Message----- From: John O'Grady Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 7:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [yDNAhgI] 3 ancestral populations for present-day Europeans Here is a map of Europe 8,000 BP. Pretty much the same as now, except there was still a land-bridge from Europe to Britain. http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/eur%288ky.gif John O'Grady > What surprised me most about this paper's results was that the Loschbour > dna > from Luxuemberg was so close to the Motala12 dna from Sweden. The latter > dna was readable for 9 snps found in the vicinity of M423 in the I tree. > Motala12 was identical to Loschbour on all 9 of those snps for which the > two > dna samples were both readable, although being dug up five hundred miles > apart and separated by a strait of the sea (maybe not; was the Baltic cut > off from Atlantic 8000 b.p.?). > > > Kenneth Nordtvedt ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message