Grave goods from inhumation grave 3532 at Issendorf cemetery.©Landesmuseum Hannover
Posted on 09/25/2022 6:35:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Almost three hundred years after the Romans left, scholars like Bede wrote about the Angles and the Saxons and their migrations to the British Isles. Scholars of many disciplines, including archaeology, history, linguists and genetics, have debated what his words might have described, and what the scale, the nature and the impact of human migration were at that time.
New genetic results now show that around 75 percent of the population in Eastern and Southern England was made up of migrant families whose ancestors must have originated from continental regions bordering the North Sea, including the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. What is more, these families interbred with the existing population of Britain, but importantly this integration varied from region to region and community to community....
Using published genetic data from more than 4,000 ancient and 10,000 present-day Europeans, Gretzinger and colleagues identified subtle genetic differences between the closely related groups inhabiting the ancient North Sea region.
Upon arrival, the migrants intermixed with the local population. In one case, in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery from Buckland near Dover, researchers were able to reconstruct a family tree across at least four generations and identify the point in time when migrants and locals intermarried. This family showed a large degree of interaction between the two gene pools...
...women of immigrant origin were buried with artifacts more often than women of local origin, especially considering items such as brooches and beads. Interestingly, men with weapons were found to have both genetic origins equally often. These differences were locally mediated with prominent burials or wealthy graves seen across the range of origins. For example, a woman buried with a complete cow in Cambridgeshire was genetically mixed, with majority local ancestry.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenorway.no ...
Grave goods from inhumation grave 3532 at Issendorf cemetery.©Landesmuseum Hannover
genetically mixed with a cow?
I was just getting around to that:
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It’s right next to Oxfordshire, so...
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What about the Jutes? They’re always left out.
That’s because everyone blames the Jutes for everything. Wait, what?
The Saxons are also left out (it’s called England, after all) and Alfred the Great was the Saxon king of Wessex. :^) The Jutes left their name on Jutland in Denmark, and the Saxons left theirs on Saxony in Germany, and on the first “National Treasure” movie.
I was Jute askin’
Nowadays the Jutes are running wild all over Europe, burnin’ stuff, breakin’ stuff, rapin’ women... wait, what?
Once you get your answer, you’ll probably have all the Angles figured out, huh?
“I know more (or,at least,I *think* I know more) about early Asian and African history that I do about Europe’s.”
Can you recommend any good books? About either early Asian or African history. You kind of wonder what history is completely lost to us or was partially preserved in legends, etc. Those would be interesting things to know more about.
And the Picts, don’t forget the Picts.
saxons also are extant in the kingdom-names Essex, Sussex, Wessex - east, south, and west saxons. iirc old english for saxon was ‘seaxe’ (nominative singular?)
angles, aside from engleland itself, are in the placename east anglia.
poor picts.
carved standing stones with symbols I am not sure anyone is really sure of the meaning of, some placenames mostly in central eastern scotland (north of edinburgh), and a kings list of names (suggestive of P=gaelic names), is all we can guess at with.
Place-names with Pit- prefix (pitlochry, etc) are suggested as being pictish, with pit- related to welsh peth- (~thing) iirc. all this from decades-old memory.
Yup.
angles saxons jutes and recently I’ve seen added a new name: the frisians
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