Ancient cave art suggests first known humans in Ireland walked over from Wales

 (bbc.com)

32 points | by bookofjoe 2 days ago

3 comments

  • bookofjoe 2 days ago
    https://archive.ph/jK7oX
  • nerdralph 2 hours ago
    This doesn't make sense: "With summertime temperatures typically -10°C to -20°C". Maybe the negative was mistakenly added, and nobody noticed in editing? 10°C to 20°C would be reasonable for a "forested and grassland plateau".
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    • rjsw 1 hour ago
      There was an ice sheet starting just north of this area, it would have melted at 10°C.
    • illwrks 1 hour ago
      Agreed, that jumped out at me also. Those numbers make no sense
  • rhdunn 2 hours ago
    So this would suggest that the Goidelic languages (Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Manx) are derived from the Brittonic languages (Welsh, Breton, Cornish). [1]

    I wonder how this affects the different proto-Celtic to modern Celtic languages hypothesis. [1]

    This would suggest the following language tree: Breton -> (Cornish / Welsh) -> Irish Gaelic -> (Manx / Scottish Gaelic).

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_languages

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    • biorach 2 hours ago
      This migration predates the arrival of Celtic speakers by many thousands of years.
    • geocar 2 hours ago
      There were no Brythonic languages 15,000 years ago.

      What are you talking about?