An Anglo-Saxon burial mound in Taplow Court, England. (Credit: mbarredo/Shutterstock)
Posted on 08/30/2021 9:07:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The results we obtained suggested a substantial difference between the Early Anglo-Saxon Period sample and the Middle Anglo-Saxon Period. We found that between 66 and 75 per cent of the Early Anglo-Saxon individuals were of mainland European ancestry, while between 25 and 30 per cent were of local ancestry. In contrast, we found that 50 to 70 per cent of the Middle Anglo-Saxon Period individuals were of local ancestry, while 30 to 50 per cent were of mainland European ancestry.
While our estimates of the percentage of Anglo-Saxons who had mainland European ancestry fall comfortably within the range of estimates derived from genetic data, they contradict the picture painted by both the historical documents and the isotopic evidence. Specifically, our estimates suggest that there was greater persistence of the Romano-British population than the historical documents claim, and a larger number of immigrants than the isotope evidence has been taken to indicate.
We think these discrepancies can be explained relatively easily. It seems likely that the mismatch between our results and the historical documents relates to the fact that the documents were written long after — in some cases, several hundred years after — the migration, and therefore are of questionable accuracy, which a number of scholars have argued.
We suspect the difference between our results and the isotopes may be the consequence of a misunderstanding. While strontium and oxygen isotopes are informative about where an individual grew up, they don’t tell us about a person’s ancestry. Hence, it is feasible that some, if not all, of the individuals with local isotopic signatures were second-generation immigrants — that is, their parents originated in mainland Europe but they themselves were born and raised in the British Isles.
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An Anglo-Saxon burial mound in Taplow Court, England. (Credit: mbarredo/Shutterstock)
More “we are all immigrants” propaganda to try to legitimize the immivasion in Britain.
Perhaps. But they were not multicultural. In fact, the Anglo-Saxon conversion to Christianity led them to sever many existing cultural ties to Scandinavia and tied them much more closely to Merovingian and Carolingian France.
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Slightly off topic: I watched ‘The Dig’ last weekend - interesting ‘based on true story’ UK archeological movie … it was pretty good
Did you watch The Dig?
LOL — noticed your comment after posting mine.
If you read Tacitus, he describes hundreds of Germanic tribes. Most of them were amalgamated into just a few groups only 500 years later. Since their languages were mutually intelligible, this was a relatively straightforward process, and they gradually joined up into quasi-national groups.
Generally speaking, tribal peoples are not very picky about merging. American Indian tribes would fight wars, and the losing tribe would just be taken over by the winner. Many of the male warriors were killed, but whoever was left was absorbed.
Nobody asked for any documents, because nobody could read or write.
The story of the Sutton Hoo discovery is pretty great, not even considering how spectacular the finds were. The landowner always thought it was a king’s burial up there, a hunch, or premonition, or what have you.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/death-and-memory/anglo-saxon-ship-burial-sutton-hoo
https://freerepublic.com/tag/suttonhoo/index
Netflix ‘The Dig’ author John Preston meets Time Team
13,204 viewsPremiered Feb 16, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBvm9cvBm54
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=vid&q=%22the+dig%22
All right, raise your hands: Who thought of biden, pelosi, kerry, waters et all when seeing the phrase “ancient skulls”?
Not me.
Well, the word Cretin does come to mind...
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