When did haplogroup I1c enter the jewish population?

Question

what is its origin? I know it is high in Europe but was it also in Judea, was it part of sephardic jews (maybe flow from the spanish people)?????????

Answer 1

Scientists believe that haplogroup I originated with the Gravettian culture of Paleolithic Europe.

Subclade I1c, which has occasionally been mistaken for a variant of haplogroup G in previous studies, occurs in parts of Northern Ireland and Western Scotland, as well as in the Northern Germanic parts of Europe. Like I1a, I1c is believed to have originated during the Paleolithic, and to have taken refuge from the Ice Age in Iberia. Afterwards, it spread into other portions of Europe, especially The Low Countries, Germany and, possibly, the British Isles.

Many of the Celts who colonized the British Isles from continental Europe may have belonged to I1c. I1c may even have come to the British Isles far earlier. The Caledonians, a Pictish tribe that was defeated by Agricola at the battle of Mons Graupius, were described as Germanic in appearance. Other tribes were described as dark and Iberian. This anecdotal evidence of an ethnic difference among the aborigines of Britain does suggest a mixture of haplogroups in their ancestry.  It also supports the coexistence of both "Iberian" R1b and "Germanic" I1c on British soil prior to either Roman or Anglo-Saxon colonization.

I1c Haplotype #5 appears Southern European in origin. It may have entered Britain with the Romans - or, possibly, with Sephardic Jewish merchants in the wake of the Norman conquest.