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Beleza et al. (2005) published an extensive study of Portugese haplotypes andhaplogroups. 53% were R-M269. Of these 4% were R-M167.R-U152 predictions – It seems evident that R-P312/S116* or R-L21* will predominate inIberia. It is a toss up as to whether R-M269 (apparently scattered widely throughoutIberia) or R-U152 will be the next most frequently occurring subtype. Since relativelyfew from this area have tested it is difficult at this point to come up with anything morespecific. It is possible that some of the Celtiberians, believed to have emigrated from theeast in the 8 th or 7 th Centuries BC are R-U152, and if so, the numbers of Spaniards whoare U152+ could be much larger than anticipated. It is not expected, if the U152+ inSpain is via La Tene migrations, that this haplogroup will make up more than 10% of theR-M269 in that country.It is probable that there was a migration of La Tene Celts from Spain to Portugal, butthere is insufficient information upon which to make any sort of informed estimate. Areasonable guess would be the same percentage as R-M167, in other words less than10%.R-U152 findngs – In a small commercial sample there is one individual from Avila,Spain (in what is known as the Meseta region), others from Cantabria, and another from aCeltic enclave on the Mediterranean coast have been determined to be U152+. There isno data from Portugal to date.IRELAND: There is nothing in the historical or archaeological record that wouldsuggest that Ireland experienced any influx of people during the La Tene expansion. Thefew La Tene artifacts all appear to be locally made and there is nothing else in the recordthat would point to anything other than an indigenous population who adopted some ofthe La Tene cultural “package”, adapting it to fit within their own cultural framework(e.g., Raftery, 1991). In the McEvoy et al. (2004) genetic study of the Celtic origins ofIreland and the Atlantic Façade of Europe, they state, archaeological evidence for largescaleIron Age migrations into the British Isles has been singularly lacking. In Ireland,for example, La Te`ne artifacts are relatively rare and are almost always of indigenousmanufacture rather than of external origin (Raftery 1994), leading archaeologists andhistorians to question the accepted idea of Celtic migration to Ireland (O´ ’Donnabha´ in2000). More generally, Renfrew (1987), among others, proposed that the roots of insularCeltic identity lay within the region in which the Celtic languages were historicallyspoken, in the diffusion of Indo-European speakers into Britain and Ireland with thearrival of the Neolithic in 4000 B.C. They summarize the studies of both mtDNA and Y-DNA and conclude that there is little evidence of any Central European influence, but ashared ancestry across the, Atlantic zone, from Iberia to western Scandinavia, that datesback to the end of the last Ice Age (p.693). There is nothing in the genetic orarchaeological data that would suggest any Hallstatt or La Tene immigration to Irelandand no support for the “Book of Invasions” relating to the Gaels and Fir Bolg (e.g.,James, 1993). La Tene metalwork does not appear until about 250 BC, and this is in a17