What is the origin of Rh- blood?

Where does your Rh negative blood REALLY come from?

Did Neanderthals “become” Rh negative?

Being Rh- means you are Rh(D) negative meaning you test negative for the D antigen of the Rhesus Blood Group System.

Was there a gene deletion?

Did several such gene deletions take place in various parts among various tribes and at various times?

When discussing regional origin of Rh- people, one must look at where conditions were great during those times for those with Rh- blood. Nowadays pollution and bad food are responsible for a lot, so it is imperative to go back in time and image areas such as the Black Sea region in summer.

Some Rh-s are sensitive to heat, others cold. This is also of interest to me.

As for the Pyrenees: Mountain regions may be somewhat problematic as oxygen supply is lowered, but just as the ocean area of the Pyrenees could be an ideal place of origin (if it was), chances are that the Proto-Basques simply went west until stopped by the ocean and of course, were comfortable along the coast.

Geographical range of Neanderthals

The Neanderthals were not Rh+ or Rh-, they were partial D, a potential stepping stone from the D present to absent.

Since we are talking thousands of miles distance between locations of Neanderthal findings all testing partial D, Mourant may have been correct about Neanderthaloids being responsible for Rh- blood in southwest France area 50,000 years ago, but they also could be responsible for high Rh- frequencies in the Yamnaya as well as today’s descendants, the Celts.

Indo-Europeans in general, Persians, Mesopotamian, Sumerians, you name it.

Now that many false claims of cannibalism, low intelligence, brutal behavior among Neanderthals has been disproven, many new more carefully conducted studies about them can be expected. Much of what we already have, such as evidence in certain traits such as the occipital bun which Neanderthals are known for also being at elevated presence in groups such as the Basques indicates that while the often cited (and in so many ways misleading) article “How the Neanderthals turned into the Basques” mixes in plenty of fiction, the original premise of the article is in fact at least partially correct.

Neandertals in Central Asia and Siberia

I can never understand people claiming intuition being able to read through an entire article despite red flags hitting them in the head. However, the beginning and important parts can be used for ongoing and upcoming research. But how can you not stop when outrageous claims are being presented in such a way that you are forced to adapt a belief in order to continue rather than taking a break to verify or disprove or at least make a serious attempt to?

The Extinction of Iberian Neandertals and Its Implications for the Origins of Modern Humans in Europe

When reptilianagenda.com and Blood of the Gods are listed as references, why would you blindly accept the content and even, in worst cases, simply share the link to the whole thing on social media?

The earliest Homo erectus migration events into Western Europe and the Basque Country had very little impact on history, culture and settlement forms. Notable is nonetheless the Atapuerca Mountains complex in northern Spain, that was inhabited in sizable communities by Homo antecessor (or Homo erectus antecessor), Homo heidelbergensis and Neanderthals for many generations. The first substantial settler groups have arrived during the Riss-Würm interglacial period, between 150,000 and 75,000 BP, who left traces of Acheulean culture and technology. These groups usually settled in the riverine lowlands, near the rivers Ebro and Adour in the regions of Araba, Navarre, Labourd and Lower Navarre.

Homo neanderthalensis Mousterian culture is introduced during the Middle Paleolithic. Neanderthals left a rather rich and long cultural sequence in northern Spain, who in the Basque Country populated the high coastal lands of Biscay and Gipuzkoa. Neanderthal remains have also been found in the Lezetxiki and Axlor caves.

Homo sapiens first arrived on the Iberian peninsula during the Upper Paleolithic period that starts the process of replacement of Mousterian industries by the Aurignacian culture. A number of researchers suggest that the Ebro river functioned for extended periods of time as a major biological/cultural frontier that separated the anatomically modern humans in the Franco-Cantabrian region to the north from the rest of the Iberian peninsula which is occupied by Neandertals for several thousand years longer. As modern humans settled in the northern territories from around 40,000 years BCE, earliest evidence from the south dates to between 34,000 and 32,000 years BCE. The term Vasco-Cantabrian is now often used for the coastal area of the modern Basque Country and neighbouring Cantabria.

Radiocarbon and U-Th dates from several sites in Portugal and Southern Spain now place the replacement of Mousterian industries by the Aurignacian at ca. 28-30 Kyr BP. In Cantabria and Northern Catalonia, however, the earliest Aurignacian is now dated at ca. 38 Kyr BP. A stable frontier corresponding approximately to the Ebro river valley thus seems to have separated Aurignacian modern humans from Mousterian Neandertals for some ten thousand years. This long coexistence without mutual acculturation forces a reappraisal of current models on the causes for Neandertal extinction. Among physical anthropologists, it is common to attribute this event to a biologically based intellectual inferiority of the latter. The Iberian pattern, however, falsifies the explanation of the Chatelperronian and similar industries as related to a phenomenon of “imitating, but not understanding, modern symbolical behavior” resulting from the inevitable acculturation of Neandertals brought about by contact with Aurignacian moderns. It would seem more parsimonious, instead, to approach the issue of the replacement of Neandertals by anatomically modern humans as a traditional problem of contact between isolated populations with different cultural trajectories. In this case, as has often been documented in both the historical and the ethnographic records, the long-term outcome of contact was that one of those trajectories was truncated and the corresponding genetical lineage went extinct.

Whether Homo sapiens or Neanderthal are to be attributed to the Châtelperronian (also called Lower Périgordian) culture is debated among specialists. Nonetheless there are Châtelperronian remains (deposited between 33,000 and 29,000 BCE) that were found in the Basque Country in caves such as Santimamiñe (Biscay), Labeko Koba, Ekain (Gipuzkoa), Isturitz (Lower Navarre) and Gatzarria (Soule) as well as the open-air site of Le Basté (Labourd).