Now, the map of passage graves in Brittany is highly suggestive of maritime incursion – and these passage graves start to appear 1) in the very same centuries as the green Sahara starts to dry up 2). Now, the aDNA 3) tells us that people of the European Megalithic Culture migrated first to Central Europe (the Michelsberg Culture), and thence to Northern Germany and Southern Scandinavia 4) (the Funnel Beaker Culture) where their language is the most likely candidate for the Proto-Germanic substrate (or Pre-Proto-Germanic substrate). Now, the Megalithic Culture becomes visible a few centuries later amongst that same mix of farmers and Western Hunter-Gatherers that arose when the Mediterranean and Central European streams of colonizing farmers met up again, West of the Alps – and, indeed, the non-Indo-European half of a Proto-Germanic Swadesh List throws up the very pattern of Basque-E.Caucasian cognates that some academics 5) would expect of the Cardial Ware Culture spreading West along the coasts of the Mediterranean. But that same half of that same Swadesh List also turns out to include Afro-Asiatic cognates from four sub-families: Cushitic, Chadic, Semitic and Egyptian… which could reflect a long and complicated history of shamanic, priestly contacts up and down the Atlantic coastline during – and before – the Megalithic era… And, indeed, the Egyptian cognates in particular seem to chart to a semantic field that reflects the ritual language of a Sun, Moon and Nature Religion… Even ‘night’ and ‘light’ could be from the name of the Egyptian night goddess, Nut, and from the Pyramid-Text-era word for ‘horizon’, ‘lucht’… fashioned into a pretty sounding doublet, so typical of East Caucasian languages – and of English schoolyard rhymes still, millennia later!!!
1) ‘Radiocarbon dates and Bayesian modeling support maritime diffusion model for megaliths in Europe’ – by B. Schulz Paulsson
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period
3) ‘When the Waves of European Neolithization Met: First Paleogenetic Evidence from Early Farmers in the Southern Paris Basin’ and ‘Ancient genome-wide DNA from France highlights the complexity of interactions between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers’ – by Maïté Rivollat
4) ‘Multi-scale ancient DNA analyses confirm the western origin of Michelsberg farmers and document probable practices of human sacrifice’ – by Alice Beau and Maïte ́ Rivollat
5) in particular John D. Bengtson