{"id":3376,"date":"2017-10-26T19:50:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2019-09-29T07:21:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T07:21:32","slug":"red-hair-celtic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/red-hair-celtic\/","title":{"rendered":"Is red hair Celtic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Is red hair Celtic?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Note: The following article needs to be updated with information regarding origin of red hair and origin of today&#8217;s Celts going back further towards <\/strong><\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the ancient population of the Yamnaya (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/rh-negative-origins-the-yamnaya-people\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>the ancient population of the Yamnaya<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Not too long ago have I asked if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/rh-negative-blood-celtic\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">rh negative blood is Celtic<\/a> and of<br>\ncourse the conclusion was that we cannot simplify such thing&#8230; or could<br>\nwe? R1b is known as the Celtic marker and now that I have gone back to<br>\nEupedia to look up the origin of red hair, I have found the following:<br>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3378\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/red-hair-celtic-curly-300x200.jpeg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/red-hair-celtic-curly.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/red-hair-celtic-curly.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/red-hair-celtic-curly.jpeg?w=940&amp;ssl=1 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People with red hair can be<br>traced back to a single Y-chromosomal haplogroup: R1b.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although red hair is an almost exclusively northern and central<br>\nEuropean phenomenon, isolated cases have also been found in the Middle<br>\nEast, Central Asia (notably among the Tajiks), as well as in some of<br>\nthe Tarim mummies from Xinjiang, in north-western China. The Udmurts,<br>\nan Uralic tribe living in the northern Volga basin of Russia, between<br>\nKazan and Perm, are the only non-Western Europeans to have a high<br>\nincidence of red hair (over 10%). So what do all these people have in<br>\ncommon? Surely the Udmurts and Tajiks aren&#8217;t Celts, nor Germans. Yet,<br>\nas we will see, all these people share a common ancestry that can be<br>\ntraced back to a single Y-chromosomal haplogroup: R1b.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3382\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/assad-369308-300x178.jpg?resize=300%2C178\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/assad-369308.jpg?resize=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/assad-369308.jpg?w=590&amp;ssl=1 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">So what about other groups of people not known as &#8220;being Celtic&#8221;?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>The origins of haplogroup R1b are complex, and shrouded in controversy<br>\nto this day. The present author favours the theory of a Middle Eastern<br>\norigin (a point upon which very few population geneticists disagree)<br>\nfollowed by a migration to the North Caucasus and Pontic Steppe,<br>\nserving as a starting point for a Bronze-age invasion of the Balkans,<br>\nthen Central and Western Europe. This theory also happens to be the<br>\nonly one that explains the presence of red hair among the Udmurts,<br>\nCentral Asians and Tarim mummies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But what about the claim that red hair could come from Neanderthals?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the mutation for red hair was inherited from Neanderthal, it would<br>\nhave been from a Central Asian Neanderthal, perhaps from modern<br>\nUzbekistan, or an East Anatolian\/Mesopotamian one. The mutation<br>\nprobably passed on to some other (extinct?) lineages for a few<br>\nmillennia, before being inherited by the R1b tribe. Otherwise, it<br>\ncould also have arisen independently among R1b people as late as the<br>\nNeolithic period (but no later).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More here:<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eupedia.com\/genetics\/origins_of_red_hair.shtml\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The genetic causes, ethnic origins and history of red hair<\/a><\/p><div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Is red hair Celtic?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Is red hair Celtic?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>Note: The following article needs to be updated with information regarding origin of red hair and origin of today&#8217;s Celts going back further towards the ancient population of the Yamnaya. Not too long ago have I asked if rh negative blood is Celtic and of course the conclusion was that we cannot simplify such thing&#8230; or could we? R1b is known as the Celtic marker and now that I have gone back to Eupedia to look up the origin of red hair, I have found the following: Although red hair is an almost exclusively northern and central European phenomenon, isolated cases have also been found in the Middle East, Central Asia (notably among the Tajiks), as well as in some <div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Is red hair Celtic?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"amp_status":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/red-hair-celtic-curly.jpeg?fit=940%2C627&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DV68-Ss","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5610,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions\/5610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}