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The History of Red Hair

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Does red hair come from Neanderthals?

It has been suggested that red hair could have originated in Paleolithic Europe, especially since Neanderthal also had red hair. The only Neanderthal specimen tested so far (from Croatia) did not carry the same MC1R mutation responsible for red hair in modern humans (the mutation in question in known as Arg307Gly). But since Neanderthals evolved alongside Homo Sapiens for 600,000 years, and had numerous subspecies across all Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia, it cannot be ruled out that one particular subspecies of Neanderthal passed on the MC1R mutation to Homo Sapiens. It is however unlikely that this happened in Europe, because red hair is conspicuously absent from, or very low in parts of Europe with the highest percentages of haplogroup I (e.g. Finland, Bosnia, Sardinia) and R1a (Eastern Europe), the only two lineages associated with Mesolithic and Paleolithic Europeans. We must therefore look for the source of red hair, elsewhere. unsurpisingly, the answer lies with the R1b people – thought to have recolonised Central and Western Europe during the Bronze Age.

12 Similarities between Rh(D) negative individuals and people with red hair

The origins of haplogroup R1b are complex, and shrouded in controversy to this day. The present author favours the theory of a Middle Eastern origin (a point upon which very few population geneticists disagree) followed by a migration to the North Caucasus and Pontic Steppe, serving as a starting point for a Bronze-age invasion of the Balkans, then Central and Western Europe. This theory also happens to be the only one that explains the presence of red hair among the Udmurts, Central Asians and Tarim mummies.

Why is red hair so frequent among the Udmurts?

Haplogroup R1b probably split from R1a during the Upper Paleolithic, roughly 25,000 years ago. The most likely location was Central Asia, around what is now the Caspian Sea, which only became a sea after the last Ice Age ended and the ice caps over western Russia melted. After the formation of the Caspian Sea, these nomadic hunter-gatherers, ended up on the greener and richer Caucaso-Anatolian side of the Caspian, where they may have domesticated local animals, such as cows, pigs, goats and sheep.

Did Neanderthals “become” Rh negative?

If the mutation for red hair was inherited from Neanderthal, it would have been from a Central Asian Neanderthal, perhaps from modern Uzbekistan, or an East Anatolian/Mesopotamian one. The mutation probably passed on to some other (extinct?) lineages for a few millennia, before being inherited by the R1b tribe. Otherwise, it could also have arisen independently among R1b people as late as the Neolithic period (but no later).


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  1. Jessy October 18, 2022

    n two of the more ancient Irish texts, the Echtra Nerai 2 or ‘Expedition of Nera’ there is the same belief expressed as now about November Eve being the time of all times when ghosts, demons, spirits, and fairies are free, and when FAIRIES TAKE MORTALS AND MARRY THEM TO FAIRY WOMEN; also the beliefs that fairies are living in secret places in hills, in caverns, or under ground–palaces full of treasure and open only on November Eve
    The second text describes one such ENCOUNTER of an old IRISH KING and one 3 men of the RED HEADED FAIRY FOLK. King Conaire, in riding along a road toward Tara, saw in front of him three strange horsemen, three men of the Sidhe:–‘Three red frocks had they, and three red mantles: three red steeds they bestrode, and THREE RED HEADS OF HAIR were on them. Red were they all, both BODY AND HAIR and raiment, both steeds and men They were men of the gentry .’ ‘Who is it that fares before us?’ asked Conaire. ‘It was a taboo of mine for those Three to go before me–the three Reds to the house of Red. Who will follow them and tell them to come towards me in my track?’ ‘I will follow them,’ says Lé fri flaith, Conaire’s son. ‘He goes after them, lashing his horse, and overtook them not. There was the length of a spear cast between them: but they did not gain upon him and he did not gain upon them.’ All attempts to come up with the red horsemen failed. But at last, before they disappeared, one of the Three said to the king’s son riding so furiously behind them, ‘Lo, my son, great the news. Weary are the steeds we ride. We ride the steeds of Donn Tetscorach (?) from the elf mounds. Though we are ALIVE WE ARE DEAD. Great are the signs: destruction of life: sating of ravens: feeding of crows, strife of slaughter: wetting of sword-edge, shields with broken bosses in hours after sundown. Lo, my son!’ Then they disappear. When Conaire and his followers heard the message, fear fell upon them, and the king said: ‘All my taboos have seized me to-night, since those Three [Reds] [are the] banished folks (?).’ In this passage we behold three horsemen of the Sidhe banished from their elf mound because they were found guilty of falsehood. Visible for a time, they precede the king and so violate one of his taboos; and then delivering their fearful prophecy they vanish. Perhaps the red hair originate with the fairy folk, who had INTERCOURSE with many celtic tribes, as well as the nordic tribes. could they simply have been NEANDERTHALS, or a separate half human / half spiritual race interacting with some ancient celtic / nordic bloodlines. .. MANY of the royals have claims to be connected either through birth or marriage to this “other mysterious and magical race of beings and unfortunately they do tie into the nephilim race

  2. Jes December 11, 2023

    Or perhaps the celts received their red hair genes through the MIXING of their lineage with that of the ancestors of Abraham’s lineage and later descendants, as many Israelites did marry cannanites, Egyptians and later europeans. Not sure if you are aware of the archeological discovery that had been made in EGYPT. location known as the city of Rameseses. a statue of a very important vizier to the pharoa had been discovered, he was sporting a MULTICOLOR COAT, not seen in Egypt before, has pale yellowish skin, muschroom hair style and of semitic / Asiatic origin and above all he has FLAMING RED HAIR. The statue dates to the timeline of JOSEPH’s arrival in Egypt, 12th Dynasty, and corresponds with the leadership of Sobekemhat. Let’s not forget that Esau was born with red hair and, a ruddy skin tone. Joseph and Esau were twin sons of Isaac and Rebekah. Some medical scholars believe that the fighting of Jacob and Esau in Rebekah’s womb was due to a medical condition called twin to twin transfusion syndrome, whereby one fetus receives ample amounts of bloodflow, and the other very little in utero, which could explain the plump and ruddy appearance of Esau and pale and timid appearance of Jacob at birth. Though this does not explain red hair, there are scholars and biblical archeologists that believe the avaris statue and tomb depicts Joseph’s father Jacob. Some where in Jacob’s lineage is the geneitc trait for red hair, long before the ancient israelites married into THE CANAANITE BLOODLINE. This staue was defaced for the very purpose of destroying the evidence of the genetic traits of RED HAIR AND PALE SKIN. between the statue and the asiatic / semitic people that were living in Egypt as the bible evidently declare the Joseph invited his father and 11 brothers to come and live in Egypt during the great famine. and from there the Israelites were born as a nation of 12 tribes and later enslaved by Pharoa.

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