The European melting pot

[Peter1469]

The article discusses the three major migrations that gave us today's European stock: Africa, the Middle East, and the Russian steppe.

The European melting pot

The idea that there were once “pure” populations of ancestral Europeans, there since the days of woolly mammoths, has inspired ideologues since well before the Nazis. It has long nourished white racism, and in recent years it has stoked fears about the impact of immigrants: fears that have threatened to rip apart the European Union and roiled politics in the United States.

Now scientists are delivering new answers to the question of who Europeans really are and where they came from. Their findings suggest that the continent has been a melting pot since the Ice Age. Europeans living today, in whatever country, are a varying mix of ancient bloodlines hailing from Africa, the Middle East, and the Russian steppe.

Three major movements of people, it now seems clear, shaped the course of European prehistory. Immigrants brought art and music, farming and cities, domesticated horses and the wheel. They introduced the Indo-European languages spoken across much of the continent today. They may have even brought the plague. The last major contributors to western and central Europe’s genetic makeup—the last of the first Europeans, so to speak—arrived from the Russian steppe as Stonehenge was being built, nearly 5,000 years ago. They finished the job.

1. Out of Africa

2. Out of Anatolia (modern day Turkey- the Asian part)

3. Out of the Steppe

[HawkTheSlayer]

Out of money.... lol.

[RMNIXON]

Of course it was a very mixed bunch.

But the issue today is Radical Muslim ideology and Communism not race or ethnic heritage. Both claim the need to subjugate all peoples as a fundamental principle.

[Peter1469]

Of course it was a very mixed bunch.

But the issue today is Radical Muslim ideology and Communism not race or ethnic heritage. Both claim the need to subjugate all peoples as a fundamental principle.

I didn't post this to encourage the global (cultural) proponents.