Wednesday, 14 August 2019

Fáilte

This blog will be dedicated to observing the population genomics of Irish people, as well as focusing on other ancient dna samples from the island that are published in the latest peer reviewed studies as they arrive. I will be tracing the various demographic movements into the island that occurred during the various Mesolithic (WHG), Neolithic (EEF) and most importantly in the Irish case, the Bronze Age (Bell beakers) periods. I will be using the most up to date admixture tools to model both ancient and modern Irish samples. To do this I will be relying predominantly on the nMonte software created by huijbregts which relies on the Monte Carlo statistical method. Mainly using Global 25 coordinates courtesy of Davidski of the Eurogenes blog. (That man does some phenomenal work btw).

I will also be doing my utmost to dispel and debunk some of the romantic old wife’s tales that have been circulated regarding Irish origins in recent years. And of those there are many.


My blog will also be paying very close attention to ancient samples from the continent that are relevant in the ethnogenesis of whom we now know as the Irish.

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