Comments by "" (@jboss1073) on "Were The Ancient Romans Nordic? The Truth" video.
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@SockAccount111 They did not. That is just something historians say because they have very little sources to go off of and need to come up with interesting stories to tell.
First of all, different cultures don't usually mix. The moors were genetically Natufian and of a newly-invented muslim religion. They were also much prouder of their ancestry than Iberians at the time, so that the moors would not want to mix their blood with that of the vanquished.
But most importantly, we know there was no mix because Iberian autosomal DNA still plots exactly in the same place it did in the Copper Age, much earlier than the moors' invasion of Iberia. Therefore whatever happened between the Copper Age, after Germanic people mixed with EEF southern Europeans to form the Bell-Beakers, and today, is as good as not having happened, as it had no effect on the current gene pool of Iberians.
In other words the only mixture that can be detected in Iberians is the Germanic admixture of 2,500 BC when Corded-Ware peoples of the Eastern Bell-Beaker culture entered Iberia which was 100% EEF at the time and mixed with them leaving them at 60% EEF and 40% Yamnaya.
Since the Copper Age, the gene pool of Iberians has remained constant and unchanged. However, the Iberians are not an exception - the gene pool of all of western Europe has not changed since 2,500 BC.
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OPEN LETTER TO METATRON:
In your "Were the Ancient Romans Nordic? The Truth" video, at 8:37, you said:
"But the wars between the Romans and the Gauls in both Cisalpine Gaul and Gallia Narbonensis brought into home Celtic slaves, therefore Nordic, if you will"
At 9:13 you repeat this idea that slaves from the "Celtic world" would have brought "Nordic types" to Rome.
Please make a publicly official correction to this statement.
There is not, nor has there ever been, "Nordic" Celts in Gallia Cisalpina and Gallia Narbonensis.
Strabo (Geographia 4.1.1, 4.1.14, 4.4.1) and Diodorus Siculus (V.32.1), and Posidonius (cited by Strabo and Siculus) all say that the Celtic race south of the Alps was not the same as the Gallic race north of the Alps; in other words, that it was clear even then, that the Narbonenses and the Cisalpines were of the same southwestern European ethnicity as those Celts in Iberia whose descendants are modern-day Iberians.
And what race was that? Well, Polybius in Historiae, Book 34, Chapter 9, Section 3, Line 3, tells us:
"And in terms of the prosperity of the land, both the pleasantness and the political stability followed the Turdetani, and with the Celts due to their proximity, as Polybius has stated, because of their kinship."
Hence, the Celts were of the same ethnicity as the extreme southwestern Europeans of southwestern Portugal.
What you said, that "if you will, Celts being brought into Rome from Gallia Cisalpine and Gallia Narbonensis brought Nordic blood into Rome", is a patent lie, a misunderstanding of basic history, and a continuation of Nordicist claims against the heritage of the modern-day people of southern France whose ancestors called themselves Celts (according to emic evidence such as personal pottery items, votive altars and tombstones, not according to disparate etic Greco-Roman sources).
My patience is really running thin with you disgracing the history and heritage of the Celts and assigning them to the Nordic people.
If you do not correct your statement publicly and I have to end up doing that, I will definitely put you in your place such that your audience forever knows what a careless researcher you are.
You say you hire a team to help you make these videos - why don't you hire me to help with sources to do with the Celts? There is no one in the world more familiar with every piece of evidence to do with the Celts than I am.
FYI I am participating in a decade-long project that will revise every single mention of the Celts in all of history from the Greco-Roman sources to today's scholars, and our publication will make sure that every incompetent scholar who has opined on the Celts from a position of authority will have their name dragged in mud through a meticulous autopsy of every single thing they have said about the Celts and how exactly they did a disservice to their audience by being able to easily know the truth but choosing not to, and choosing to continue to listen to Nordicist, Victorian, Romanticist British sources for information on the Celts.
Mark my words, this project will upend "Celts", and if you are no found to be putting out correct information on the Celts, you will be exposed as a fraudulent scholar and as a cavalier, intolerant person, for continuing to slander the Celts through the Nordicist myth perpetrated by Romanticist, Victorian British scholars.
I am very disappointed in you for showing no respect to your southwestern European Celtic brothers and sisters. You keep giving their name and heritage away to the Nordics just like the British did. All of that is wrong and the time is coming where you will have to answer to your audience for your lies.
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