The Origins of the British: The New Prehistory of Britain
The New Prehistory of Britain
Stephen Oppenheimer
Stephen Oppenheimer's extraordinary scientific detective story
combining genetics, linguistics, archaeology and historical record
shatters the myths we have come to live by. It demonstrates that the
Anglo-Saxon invasions contributed just a tiny fraction (5%) to the
English gene pool. Two thirds of the English people reveal an unbroken
line of genetic descent from south-western Europeans arriving long
before the first farmers. The bulk of the remaining third arrived
between 7,000 and 3,000 years ago as part of long-term north-west
European trade and immigration, especially from Scandinavia - and may
have brought with them the earliest forms of English language. As for
the Celts - the Irish, Scots and Welsh - history has traditionally
placed their origins in Iron Age Central Europe. Oppenheimer's genetic
synthesis shows them to have arrived via the Atlantic coastal route from
Ice Age refuges including the Basque country; with the modern languages
we call Celtic arriving later. There is indeed a deep divide between
the English and the rest of the British. But as this book reveals the
division is many thousands of years older than previously thought.
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