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

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bookofjoe•2 days ago

nerdralph•about 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".

rjsw•about 1 hour ago

There was an ice sheet starting just north of this area, it would have melted at 10°C.

illwrks•about 2 hours ago

Agreed, that jumped out at me also. Those numbers make no sense

rhdunn•about 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

biorach•about 2 hours ago

This migration predates the arrival of Celtic speakers by many thousands of years.

geocar•about 2 hours ago

There were no Brythonic languages 15,000 years ago.

What are you talking about?

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

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