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

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• bookofjoe2 days ago
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• nerdralph2 hours ago
  This doesn&#x27;t make sense: &quot;With summertime temperatures typically -10°C to -20°C&quot;. Maybe the negative was mistakenly added, and nobody noticed in editing? 10°C to 20°C would be reasonable for a &quot;forested and grassland plateau&quot;.
  • rjsw1 hour ago
    There was an ice sheet starting just north of this area, it would have melted at 10°C.
  • illwrks1 hour ago
    Agreed, that jumped out at me also. Those numbers make no sense
• rhdunn2 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]<p>I wonder how this affects the different proto-Celtic to modern Celtic languages hypothesis. [1]<p>This would suggest the following language tree: Breton -&gt; (Cornish &#x2F; Welsh) -&gt; Irish Gaelic -&gt; (Manx &#x2F; Scottish Gaelic).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Celtic_languages" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Celtic_languages</a>
  • biorach2 hours ago
    This migration predates the arrival of Celtic speakers by many thousands of years.
  • geocar2 hours ago
    There were no Brythonic languages 15,000 years ago.<p>What are you talking about?