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You know there's something I always thought about when it comes to Ireland and R1b. Ireland is like, what, 70%? I think back in the unforgiving prehistoric times, it wouldnt be uncommon for conquerors to just slaughter the whole male population. But the geography of a place like Ireland makes something like that much easier. It's an island and so there's nowhere to run, and Ireland has a really poor landscape for holdout groups and survivors. No mountains or rough terrain, just rolling green hills, woodland copses, and open meadows. Geography like that makes it so much easier for an entire population to just be massacred wholesale. Plus the fact that it was a backwater in assfuck no where, population probably was only in the tens of thousands.
In my imagination always envisioned the Celtic conquest of Ireland as a big slaughter, seems genetics is backing this up now.
And also with I beria, I think it was only heavily populated in the Phoenician southeastern part, and and the rest of it was still a pretty backwater and barbarous place, so may explain the higher R1b there compared to southeast Europe and it's metropolises.
Anyway, sorry for off-topic
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