On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 04:19  PM, Theola Walden Baker wrote:
> traced back so far to give any of us a clue.  Peoples of antiquity
> were far
> more mobile than many of us usually believe.  And such "recent" events
> as
> the Thirty Years' War in Europe (1618-1648), for example--virtually a
> world
> war of the day--left soldiers at war's end and/or their semen strung
> from
> one end of Europe to the other.

And not to forget the numerous asiatic invasions of Europe, Huns,
Magyars, Arabs etc. just since the Roman era. Some of these made it as
far west as France, certainly leaving a swath of raped women behind
them. In the Roman armies there were plenty of Africans as well, all
neatly blended in by now. No way to tell until gene mapping gets a lot
further along than it is now. Genetic purity freaks just don't know
their history.