Comments by "Iain Mc" (@iainmc9859) on "Pictish DNA, the Scythians and Ancient Pictish Symbol Stones" video.

Scythians - one of your favourite peoples ... never would have guessed 😁 My money's on them being 'Treaty' stones between different tribal groupings, with the rings being settlements and the broken arrow symbolising the end of hostilities, possibly through marriage alliances.
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@MAKDavid-1 Interesting hypothesis as well. Unfortunately we can't make direct comparisons between different cultures across different periods of time. Anything we put forwards in the present time can only be at best 'educated' guesswork. Our best hope is that a Roman text ,as yet undiscovered, sheds some light on Pictish symbolism.
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@MAKDavid-1 1 - Essentially you are saying there was genetic movement east and west, no doubt there was; as well as north to south, or from any other point of the compass. Gauls settled in Anatolia (St Paul's Letter to the Galatians) and were used as mercenaries across Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. 2 - Taking from that that Pictish symbol stones and specifically a broken arrow symbol are related directly to Hunnic/Scythian tribal symbolism is at best tenuous and anthropologically unproven. 3 - My point about the Romans is that they did have contact with the early Picts and as the Picts did not have a phonetic writing system that we know of the best we can hope for is an as yet undiscovered ancient latin text giving some insight as to what Pictish symbols meant. BTW - your link was blocked by Google Chrome.
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@MAKDavid-1 Dear Mr Makai, as we say in Scotland - you are trying to weave a very big plaid from very few threads, jumping from the very broad (genetic diaspora) to a few possible linguistic Indo-European links. Of course there are linguistic and genetic connections between western Asia and Europe (eg. Afghanistan) that's why they are called INDO-European languages. Alexander the Great also had a whole Empire out there. There is no such phrase as Indo-Jewropean ! You seem to have the opinion that none of the 'Hunnic/Scythian/Magyar' peoples or 'Celtic' peoples had contact with the Ancient Classical world, which is nonsense. The Picts are north-west European Pastoral Agriculturalists, that interbred and supplanted with the north-west European Hunter Gatherers to a greater or lesser extent. Do not put too much trust in ethno-DNA analysis. It is in its very early days with statistically insignificant numerical samples to work from, as yet.
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