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I am inclined to agree with you. It was about 40 thousand years ago when they first came to Europe and about 10 thousand years ago they came to the British Isles. Surely they must have evolved lighter skins in order to get more vitimin D. Yet the reconstruction of Cheddar man shows him to be as...

Before Dal Riata expanded its kingdom into western Scotland, there was a Caledonian tribe located in Argyle called the Epidii, who were already speaking Gaelic.

The term 'Pict' was never used before 297AD. Prior to that time the Romans refered to the peoples of northern Scotland as the Caledonians. I expect the reason for this was because by 297AD the Caledonains may have been the only northern tribal group encounted by the Romans who still painted...

S530 is unique to Scotland. It is seldom found outside Scotland and is considered to be Pictish. Roughly 10% of Scotsmen carry it. There will be other Pictish subclads such as L21 and some I2 subclads, which were shared by other tribal groups in the British Ilses.

According to Eupedia's section on haplogroup R1a, it says the following: Fair hair was another physical trait associated with the Indo-Europeans. In contrast, the genes for blue eyes were already present among Mesolithic Europeans belonging to Y-haplogroup I. The genes for blond hair are more...

The original Western Hunter Gatherers were black or dark skinned with jet black hair. They probably evolved lighter skins by the time the came to either Scandinavia or the British Isles, but they certainly would not have been blonde haired. Until of course they started to inter breed with the...

The WHG are represented by I1 and I2. When they first came into Europe about 40,000 years ago they were Black, had blue eyes and Caucasian facial features and hair texture. They never arrived to the British Isles and Scandinavia until about 10,000 years ago. According to the reconstruction of...