Message-ID: <s381f22b.011@crs.loc.gov> Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 18:42:05 -0500 From: Jonathan Sanford <mailto:JSANFORD@CRS.LOC.GOV> Subject: Re: Boring -Reply To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Don't forget that the Celts were previous inhabitants of Europe and were divested of control by the inflow of agriculturalists from the Middle East and Aegean. Then the speakers of Indo-European tongues moved in to exert dominance. Even the Basques were probably immigrants from somewhere else, divesting prior inhabitants of control. Should we give Europe back to homo sapiens nethanderalensis? Were they even the original human inhabitants?Jon Sanford