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

bookofjoe 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

nerdralph 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This doesn't make sense: "With summertime temperatures typically -10°C to -20°C". Maybe the negative was mistakenly added, and nobody noticed in editing? 10°C to 20°C would be reasonable for a "forested and grassland plateau".

	▲	Rumudiez a minute ago \| parent \| next [-]
		it's reinforced in the same sentence after you cut off your quote and is repeated again further into the article: > Nash said the caves would have been "quite a cosy place to live, especially compared with the -20°C outside".
	▲	rjsw an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		There was an ice sheet starting just north of this area, it would have melted at 10°C.
	▲	illwrks 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Agreed, that jumped out at me also. Those numbers make no sense

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rhdunn 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So this would suggest that the Goidelic languages (Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Manx) are derived from the Brittonic languages (Welsh, Breton, Cornish). [1]

I wonder how this affects the different proto-Celtic to modern Celtic languages hypothesis. [1]

This would suggest the following language tree: Breton -> (Cornish / Welsh) -> Irish Gaelic -> (Manx / Scottish Gaelic).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_languages

	▲	biorach 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This migration predates the arrival of Celtic speakers by many thousands of years.
	▲	geocar 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		There were no Brythonic languages 15,000 years ago. What are you talking about?