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> One is how closely related were these neolithic people to modern Irish people The article explains that these are related to the first farmers, who arrived (
by iguy 6y ago
> One is how closely related were these neolithic people to modern Irish people
The article explains that these are related to the first farmers, who arrived (slowly) from roughly what's now Turkey, and mixed with local pre-farming people (who had been there a few millenia).
In northern Europe these people were all but completely replaced by the Indo-European arrivals, who (with various smaller-distance and smaller-number movements, like the Vikings) were the people living there until the 20th C.
- tgflynn 6y agoIf that's the case then they might correspond to the Tuatha De Danann of Irish mythology who were supposed to have been the first people to inhabit Ireland (I think the Irish have traditionally believed that these were indeed the mound builders). What's confusing is that the article also says they probably arrived from Spain and/or France, which is where the Celtic (and hence Indo-European) Gaels are said to have arrived from much later. Perhaps both groups followed the same route to Ireland at different times ?