Scientists Discover Surprising Dark Age Genetics in Scotland

Great Britain and Ireland are part of an archipelago of islands that has been the subject of numerous invasions and migrations throughout history.It was first mentioned in writing in the fourth century BC by the Greek explorer Pytheas, who describes its three corners.After the initial Paleolithic settlement, farmers migrated to the region between four thousand and three thousand BC, followed by a population shift linked to the introduction of bronze and copper tools and the Bell Beaker culture.Subsequent migrations have impacted the underlying haplotype diversity, but they have not replaced it since the formation of the "Insular Atlantic" gene pool.An increase in German-related ancestry has been linked to the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the south of England between four hundred and six hundred fifty A.D.

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[RichardMathews-gvlb]

Fascinating and echoes the known history. So the Strathclyde Welsh, the Northumbrians, the Picts, the Irish of Dal Riata and the Norse are still there melded into the nation of Scotland

[mikiohirata]

As an NE Asian person (Japanese) this was very interesting information.
UK and Ireland are not that big of the land mass on the world map yet there are so many
variety of ancestries. Kind of similar to Japan where it's an island nation stretched north
to south. You find very interesting mix of peoples from different sources over millennia.
Still it's mind boggling to find out how much of tribes / immigrants or whatever you define
them have crossed the sea to settle in British isles.
I can't tell them apart as non native to that area yet it's much like my native land of Japan
where you really can't know where their ancestors come from.
Small a country it is but so much history when it comes to settling of people over long
time.
I also noticed from comments left by viewers that they have issues with how their
ancestry are defined or explained here. The differences of what's important to them till
present day is staggering to me. No wonder there are never ending strife btw the natives
of English isles. (Surely there are religious influences ).
Thanks for enlightening me with this video contents.

[janice]

So I’m a south west Scot going by the 6 regional groups. I’ve a Scottish mum & Irish dad . My heritage DNA results were ;
83% Irish Scottish & Welsh .
11.4% Greek & South Italian
5.6% Baltic .
Our features are thick dark curly hair, blue eyes, very fair skin & high prominent cheekbones. I’m a proud Scottish/irish, Celtic woman. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪

[peterhendriks]

A bit more melody in the voice of the narrator would have made the presentation less of a torture to listen to.

[sgalla]

I am sick of hysterical youtube voiceovers. The calm voice is a breath of fresh air.

[MarleneWalker-suku]

The thumbnail does look like Nichola Sturgeon though😂

[erkkinho]

Scandinavian genetic makeup has changed during centuries as people from mainland Europe have flowed steadily to Scandinavia.

[thescythian]

The Picts remain an enigma. They were not Gaels, nor were they the same as Southern Britons. Here, its claimed their language was Brythonic, but was it? Their own name Cruithne could be either but even this could be a Gaelic rendering. The old annals say the Picts were Scythians.

[DorchesterMom]

The Hebrides (I always assumed) were early Brythonic, an isolated population similar to Wales and the West of Ireland?

Very interesting. Thank you ❤ I always enjoy your content.

[paulbennett]

I agree with remarks about the monotonous narration, but it is what it is.
I'd welcome a vid highlighting a neglected area - Co Durham (+ parts of Cumbria). We're not Danish like Yorkshire, neither are we Norse like Northumbria. I'll leave it to you to make your investigations, hoping to see a vid in the near future. Thanx for what you do.

[eh]

It’s just historically illiterate to say that the predominant genetic shape of the whole of northeast Ireland and the majority of where the Scottish population sits is due to relatively modern immigration. If that were the case, given the economic conditions of that recent migration, you should have a distinct difference between urban (like Irish) and rural populations across the rural areas of Scotland, except for Galloway & Carrick. It should be a patchwork. Instead you have a much more thorough mix that makes NE Ireland and the majority population of Scotland (in the west and across the central belt) consistent. 

In fact a great deal of it was back migration, even within known history: Galloway and Carrick disproportionately provided “Plantation settlers” to Ireland (and not just the NE.) 
Centuries before that, the same areas received a lot of refugees from Ireland and Man who were fleeing the Norse invasions there. That was not a new genetic population either.

Look at Rathlin Island. Look at the dna of the three closely related Bell Beaker mariners there, who have maybe a century between them. That single lineage is the paternal ancestor of the vast majority of both Scottish and Irish men. And there just about the earliest bronze-age people in these islands — between the islands!  

The highway connecting the biggest chunk of population in Scotland to the east & north coasts of Ireland is the Irish Sea. It was far easier and faster to get a ton of goods between the Clyde to Ulster than to get one pack (man or equine) overland between the Forth and the Clyde. (BTW, the Clyde is strongly tidal right into the present city centre.)

[DanielJKoubleRenegadeNation]

Is Charlie Kirk of Scottish origin? The thumbnail has similar facial proportions,

[lisaflint]

Well, this explains why my fathers DNA results came back with 23% Irish. Having done quite a bit of work on our family tree, I couldn't explain that percentage, as he had no known Irish ancestors on either the maternal or paternal branches. My only explanation was that his 3x ggf came from Renfrewshire Scotland, and those ancestors lived in and around SW Scotland for many generations. Thank you for confirming my hypothesis!

[yorki]

Really enjoyed this video. I read in a 1660's book about Ireland that the Irish long held that they were descended from the Spanish.

[engineersteveo]

As a 100% Norwegian by recorded family history this is correct based on the Helix analysis which have done twice

[atlas]

Há estudos também que esses povos, principalmente os Celtas, têm origem na Península Ibérica ou seja Portugal e Espanha e dali se espalharam pra outras partes da Europa, um fato é que a língua portuguesa por exemplo têm mais de 3 mil palavras Celtas em seu vocabulário e há muitas palavras em comum ente o português e o irlandês, inclusive sons das línguas, há mais provavelmente de espanhóis e portugueses nessas ilhas do Oceano Atlântico e seu braço interior conhecido por Mar do Norte, do que de Escandinavos, sabemos que o que se diz Mar do Norte, Negro e Mediterrâneo são apenas partes interiores do Atlântico

[lightningspirit]

We are not all the same, there are many human variants, and as society shows we are not all equal, eg social economic inequality, exists, show me one place on earth where people are all the same and equal...?😮😅

[FredScuttle]

Historian David Olusoga would probably claim half of ancient Picts were African.

[PerilousPaddy]

I wanted to watch this but the tedium in your voice irritated me too much, sorry but I can't get more than a minute into this video.

[TotalFreedomTTT-pkst]

Very thorough and detailed analysis - it will be interesting to see how these genetic history's correlate with stories fables or family stories from the past - - it is also interesting how some people remain 'separate' and other's mix up - like their nature's and way's of life were compatible or not