Vasco Basque dna

[SwordandCompass]

www.dienekes.com/blog/archives/000421.html

:"Studies of pre-historic basque populations should consider that all the linguistic evidence points that basques are relative newcomers to the area where they know live. They probably came from north of the Pirinees, from present -day Gascoigne, 2,000 years ago. I can provide bibliography.
Posted by: eufrenio at November 10, 2003 01:00 PM"

Basque are not "iberian" coming from the south upwards but going down "north" of Pyrenees like eufernio suggests?any comments people?

[SwordandCompass]

Ok skip over the altantean and cayce thing.I want to hear what the people who understand this stuff better than have to say. Mel? hehe mel knows everything

[eufrenio]

SwordandCompass said:

www.dienekes.com/blog/archives/000421.html

:"Studies of pre-historic basque populations should consider that all the linguistic evidence points that basques are relative newcomers to the area where they know live. They probably came from north of the Pirinees, from present -day Gascoigne, 2,000 years ago. I can provide bibliography.
Posted by: eufrenio at November 10, 2003 01:00 PM"

Basque are not "iberian" coming from the south upwards but going down "north" of Pyrenees like eufernio suggests?any comments people?

Just before Roman times, the "vascones" ("basques") inhabited the Northern part of Navarre. They then moved into the present basque country and South as far as modern Rioja (look for Logroño on a map). We know that the oldest place names in the basque Country are Indo-European in origin, as they are over much of the Northern part of the Peninsula: names for rivers, mountains, etc...
The evidence suggests that the Basque country is not the ancestral homeland of the basques. We do have epigraphic evidence that there were basque speaking populations North of the Pyrenees, in present day Gascoigne.
The question remains whether the Basques moved in large numbers into Iberia, or if they just happened to transmit their language and culture to the older established populations in the area.
In my opinion, the latter is more likely.