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Do you think that they look that distinct from continental Europeans?
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The first study claims that the Scottish are closer to the Southern English than they are to the Irish. Wouldn't the results be more complex than that if they broke down Scotland by regions since the Southwest Scottish are closer to the Irish (in more ways than one) than they are to the Southern English?
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The close genetic affinity of these Beaker people to Continental North Europeans means that British and Irish populations cluster genetically very closely with other Northwest European populations, regardless of how much Anglo-Saxon and Viking ancestry was introduced during the 1st millennium.
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Really? I think they don't look distinct from other Europeans. Rather, they look "ultra European". The other people who also look "ultra European" are the Norwegians, Icelanders, Swedes and Danes.
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https://curlyhairglow.com/wp-content...n-ireland.webp
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I really don't understand it. Surely it's just that the eastern Scottish (in a NW European context) don't overlap that much with the Irish. I don't why they would be closer to the English, though. It is true there was a decent amount of English (and Flemish) immigration to the Burghs of (lowland) Scotland between the 11th-14th Centuries and there is no doubt this also concerned the north-east, the result of which caused the genesis of the Scots language. But it can't have been that seismic? Even excluding that 'English' component, considering that eastern Scots are basically 'Picts' and that they overlap more with the English, this should signify that they were, by-and-large, a Brythonic subgroup, but due to geographic isolation, developed a different culture/language than their neighbours/neighbors to the south. We still don't know a huge amount about the Pictish language, but there have been arguments put forth that it was a sort of Goidelic-Brythonic hybrid and thus, would signify there was a Gaelic component to the genetic makeup of the Pictish peoples (the ethnogenesis of the 'Picts' would have been the result of migrants from Ireland arriving and intermixing with the Britons). I guess this study sort of quells that theory.
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