Stephen Oppenheimer tries to solve the mystery of Basque
Nicholas Wade in the International Herald Tribune talks about Stephen Oppenheimer’s work on Basque:
Stephen Oppenheimer, a medical geneticist at the University of Oxford, says the historians’ account is wrong in almost every detail. In Oppenheimer’s reconstruction of events, the principal ancestors of today’s British and Irish populations arrived from Spain about 16,000 years ago, speaking a language related to Basque.
You can read English and Irish may be closer than they think here. There have already been a few reponses to this article:LanguageLog calls this ‘another entry in the sweepstakes for least appealing claims about language’, and Razib over at Gene Expression calls it ‘a scholarly mess’
Posted on 
March 7th, 2007 by 
Simon Greenhill
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