Here's a reminder about one of the most important results of the past thirteen years of ancient #DNA research.

Northern Europe was overrun by plague-spreading steppe nomads less than 5000 years ago, causing an almost complete population replacement. It's a 1492 event.

Everybody knows that us Northern Europeans aren't the original inhabitants of North America. *But we aren't even the original inhabitants of Northern Europe.*

#archaeology #immigration

Most Spanish words come from Latin, but did you know there are two different groups?

There are words that Spanish inherited from spoken Latin, but also words that it borrowed from written Latin during the Middle Ages and after.

Some took both routes, creating doublets. For instance, both ‘hablar’ (to speak) and ‘fabular’ (to make up) come from Latin ‘fābulāre’.

Here’s episode three in my ten-part series on doublets. Next: Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Galician, Dutch, and English.