The odd world distribution of ancient Haplogroup X Mitochondrial DNA

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4. The earliest settlers came to Ireland around 10,000 years ago,

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The latest research into Irish DNA has confirmed that the early inhabitants of Ireland were not directly descended from the Keltoi of central Europe. In fact the closest genetic relatives of the Irish in Europe are to be found in the north of Spain in the region known as the Basque Country...... which the language itself is not Indo/European in origin..

The Basque are a mystery too.

https://www.sott.net/article/263587-DNA-shows-Irish-people-have-more-complex-origins-than-previously-thought

Another strange anomaly is the large ancient copper mines in the Great Lakes region

In prehistoric times, large quantities of copper were mined on Isle Royale and the nearby Keweenaw Peninsula. The region is scarred by ancient mine pits and trenches up to 20 feet deep. Carbon-14 testing of wood remains found in sockets of copper artifacts indicates that they are at least 5700 years old. In Prehistoric Copper Mining in the Lake Superior Region, published in 1961, Drier and Du Temple estimated that over 750,000 tons of copper had been mined from the region. However, David Johnson and Susan Martin contend that their estimate was based on exaggerated and inaccurate assumptions.[7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_Royale

NBC news Stonehenge in Lake Michigan?

According to BLDGBLOG, in 2007, Mark Holley, professor of underwater archeology at Northwestern Michigan College, discovered a series of stones arranged in a circle 40 feet below the surface of Lake Michigan. One stone outside the circle seems to have carvings that resemble a mastodon—an elephant-like animal that went extinct about 10,000 years ago.



http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Stonehenge-in-Lake-Michigan.html




Wall Street Journal........ Minoan connection?


Well this article is just food for thought on the discussion

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB126593477531544685

Also Minoan ship found
http://nauticalarch.org/projects/seytan-deresi-shipwreck-survey/

So it is a mystery but maybe seafaring in ancient times before the melting of the ice caps is not out of the realms of ancient man. Rather than just following the ice bergs, who knows? Modern Humans such as ourselves have been around at least 200,000 years so we have a gigantic gap in our understanding of what they were able to achieve before the ice caps melted.

Aristotle said

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

But this is just a thought experiment such as
Maxwell's Demon or Schrödinger's cat.