Bronze Age immigration to Orkney mostly female

[Duncan Head]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-60290483

Original study at https://www.pnas.org/content/119/8/e2108001119:

We find clear evidence for Early Bronze Age immigration into Orkney, but with an extraordinary pattern: continuity from the Neolithic on the male line of descent but immigration from continental Europe on the female side, echoed in the genome-wide picture. This suggests that despite substantial immigration, indigenous male lineages persisted for at least a thousand years after the end of the Neolithic.

[Anton]

That's very interesting.  It brings to mind Iceland where the female line of descent is mainly Celtic from Britain and Ireland.  We have a good idea how that came about.  Maybe something similar was going on?

Then there is that odd story about the women less migrating Picts requesting and getting women from the Irish. 

[Mark G]

Scots travelling to where they might meet Irish women, to avoid their own women?

No jokes to be made there - no, none at all.

[Nick Harbud]

Clearly this happened long before the Scottish government closed all nightclubs....   

[Mark G]

I can reliably report that there is no chance of nightclub attendees being motivated enough to migrate anywhere.

By the time the "come down" is over, it's Friday night again.

[Erpingham]

I can think of numerous reasons to migrate to Orkney but I don't think the club scene would be one.

[Cantabrigian]

I can think of numerous reasons to migrate to Orkney but I don't think the club scene would be one.

The Neolithic cultures were famous for the quality of their clubs.