Posted on 04/23/2008 2:49:29 PM PDT by blam
Germanic invaders may not have ruled by apartheid
00:01 23 April 2008
NewScientist.com news service
Emma Young
When a strong Germanic signal was discovered in the Y-chromosome of British men, geneticists at University College London suggested that enslavement and apartheid imposed by Saxon invaders was responsible.
It was an idea that, given 20th-century European history, had a particular resonance.
The argument is, that from AD 430 to 730, the Germanic conquerors of Britain formed an elite, with a servant underclass of native Britons. Inter-marriage was restricted, and the invaders and their genes flourished.
"But it is just not necessary to assume an apartheid-like system," argues John Pattison of the University of South Australia in Adelaide. "The evidence is compatible with the idea of a much more integrated society."
Lengthy influx
Pattison reviewed existing archaeological and genetic evidence, and conducted a new analysis of British DNA. Then, starting in 2001 and working backwards to pre-Roman times, Pattison calculated for each generation the net population growth and the origins of immigrants.
He concludes that people with Germanic origins came to Britain well before and after the early Anglo-Saxon period, and this long period of immigration can explain a relatively strong Germanic genetic signal today.
He adds that about 60% of the current British population still has some native Briton DNA, arguing against the idea, put forward by Mark Thomas at University College London and colleagues that Saxon invaders ethnically purged the country.
The textual and archaeological evidence collected by Thomas's team is also controversial, says Pattison.
Brutal times
While the Anglo-Saxon King Ine of Wessex did formulate a code that imposed heavier taxes on native Britons than Saxons, for example,
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So, in fact, Ich bin ein Berliner.
So, in fact, you are NOT a jelly filled donut ;) It’s, Ich bin Berliner, I am a Berliner. Which is the correct way to say it. (Poor JFK, someone on his staff should have caught this booboo)
I think Marilyn Monroe caught his booboo, and maybe on film.
isn’t that what the house of windsor is,
an incestuous tribe of german invaders?
The house of Windsor is descendent of the house of Hanover, which has been in England for longer than the US has been a country. So they are as much “invaders” of Britain as 95%+ of modern day Americans are of the USA.
"Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall!" was better - and more effective!
it was a joke.
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sorry
My Grandfathers (Mothers side) family were supposedly descended from the seventh son, the horseman, McGaughey, but I think that they exaggerate.
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