Basque and Scottish People?

Basques are "left-over people"; left over from the tribes that used to roam across Europe before the farmers invaded from Iran/Iraq/Turkey (where they claim farming originated; of course, farming sprang up at the same time in Meso America, India, Africa...). In other words, Basques are descended for the original Europeans, hunter-gatherers. Scots are descended from peoples from the Black Sea area that escaped the Great Flood (think Noah), who migrated ever westward on both sides of the Mediterranean to Italy, to Spain, then northward to the British Isles. Two distinct peoples; the Basques unique in language, customs, genes. (They are mostly Rh Negative in blood types; the Scots mostly Rh Positive. There is one other group of people that closely match the Basques: the Saami of the Nordlands (really Nord --- the northern parts of Scandinavia. The Saami, like the Eskimos and Innuits, lived in tents, migrated following herds...In the case of the Saami, herds of reindeer. Both the Saami and the Basques are minority peoples, persecuted in their own homelands, much like the Indians in the Americas. See: “Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes” by Steve Olson “The Seven Daughters of Eve” by Bryan Sykes “Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How it Changed the Course of Civilization” by Ian Wilson So, no apparent tie between the Scots and Basques; however, there is a tie between the Spaniards (before the Moors invaded) and the Scots.

There actually is a link (and it's not just believed by Oppenheimer but many other geneticists) ,perhaps not exactly with 'Basques' but with ancient Iberia. The idea that Saxons came in and managed some kind of 'total apartheid' is patently ridiculous (esp if referring to Scotland where they were in lowlands only but also even in England),as any archaeologist worth their salt will tell you (even if they did, then that would mean one of two things--that they killed everyone off (show me the graves!they don't exist!) or that they left pockets of Britons to their own devices, in isolation, which of course would mean that in several hundred years once hostilities were forgotten, the two people would probably mix anyway. Now the latter is a possibility but then that brings us right full circle--that most people in the British isles have considerable prehistoric ancestry--as demonstrated not only by dna types but by the fact we KNOW archaeologically that there was always geneflow from rthe western seaboard from Spain down through the bay of Biscay starting after the ice and age and reaching a peak in the neolithic. Highest amounts of R1b is in Basques,Irish,Welsh, the Cornish, Scots and English in roughly that order.

Only scientists like Stephen Oppenheimer have been claiming that. He fails to acknowledge the anglo-saxon apartheid that took place in the UK, leaving only anglo-saxon genes. Then, the English spread out to Scotland and Ireland, leaving only the Welsh and coasts of Scotland and Ireland Celtic, with the rest Germanic.

Freedom for Euskadi. Freedom for Scotland. Viva Euskadi. Viva Scotland.

The Basques and the Scots (or rather the un-Anglicized Highland Celts and Picts of the Scottish Highlands and Hebrides) are both ethnic groups that the Roman Empire failed to assimilate as they did their neighbors. The Romans never subdued Scotland, nor did they conquer the Iberian tribes of Spain. Indeed, various waves of invaders (whether they were Romans, Muslims, or Castilleans or Romans, Anglo-Saxons, or the Norman French) have failed to completely conquer either the Basques or the Highland Scots, although in Lowland Scotland Anglo-Saxons intermarried with Celts and Picts (who were intermingled by the 10th century). In both cases, geography is destiny since both the Basques and the Highland Scots found themselves largely isolated and protected by their mountainous homes. Then again, in Idaho, Scottish ranchers hired Basque shepherds to look after their flocks. In the United States, any combination of nationalities--however improbable--is possible. A Basque family lives two doors up the street from me in Central Texas, and my family is predominantly Scottish and Scots-Irish. Question: Have you been googling David Icke?

I would like to hear what you have been hearing as there is no "genetic" link. The Basque people are from the western end of the Pyrenees a region that is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay and straddles parts of north-eastern Spain and south-western France. If there is a similarity it is in the raising of sheep and wool production. If there is a genetic connection it would have occurred over 12,000 years ago at the end of the last major ice age.