Using DNA to find Goths

[Tim Caldwell]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at ...> wrote:


Hi all,


> I think that would be the best hope, though I understand the 
difficulty 
> of recovering genetic material from ancient remains.  Still, it's 
always 
> at least  _possible_ that one could find some markers in ancient 
remains 
> from those regions that occured in modern populations living in other 
> areas where Gothic groups are known to have been active but not in 
> modern populations elsewhere in regions where Gothic groups weren't 
> present .... but it's a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack 
when 
> one isn't sure what a needle is ....


I agree it's very unlikely that "Gothic DNA" is a meaningful term, and 
as has been pointed out there are probably some serious technical 
problems involved in extracting the necessary DNA from ancient human 
remains to get an idea of what ancient "Gothic DNA" should look like.

But having said all this, it's great that we might be able to put our 
assumptions to the test. The proposed project creates the possibility 
that we might all get a big surprise and learn something new...

Cheers,
Tim










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