Archiver > GENEALOGY-DNA > 2005-05 > 1116030990  From: (John
Chandler) Subject: Re: [DNA] No easily found R1b sub-clades -
WHY? Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 20:36:30 -0400 (EDT) References: <>
In-Reply-To: <>(fox@nevadalink.com)  Jon wrote: > Let me re-
phrase my original statement: > It is thought by many
researchers that the Gavetttian (also known as > Prigordian)
culture, generally believed to be associated with Y-DNA Hg > I,
was a later arrival into Europe.  You still have to recognize
that there is absolutely no evidence tying the Gravettian
culture to any specific haplogroup(s) (and the same goes for
Aurignacian and Solutrean and all the rest). This is at best a
plausible speculation. Moreover, the means of transmission
(cultural contact vs population replacement) is debatable. The
relative times of arrival of the cultures are therefore of
dubious relevance at best.  > suggested: splinter groups
following game herds become isolated, and > reinforcing their
own characteristic mutational differences in a small a