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Teeth Unravel Anglo-Saxon Legacy
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| 3-17-2004
| Paul Ricon
Posted on 03/17/2004 5:19:15 PM PST by blam
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03/17/2004 5:19:16 PM PST
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blam
To: farmfriend
Cheddar Man (Descendent Of Stone Age Skeleton Found, 9,000 Year Old)
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:22:12 PM PST
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blam
To: blam
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:25:10 PM PST
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blam
To: blam
The teeth in the photo obviously could not belong to a Brit--they're much too straight! ;^)
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:25:31 PM PST
by
Auntie Dem
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
To: blam
Demonstrating that most of the people buried in a Saxon cemetary were born in England doesn't tell us much about a Saxon invasion. And 24 bodies is a pretty small sample.
As he says in the article, the Saxons rolled in the 5th century. The cemetary dates from the 5th to the 7th century, which means it would be surprising if anyone there wasn't born on the island. And in fact that is what they find.
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:26:53 PM PST
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marron
To: blam
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03/17/2004 5:28:59 PM PST
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blam
To: blam
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:32:09 PM PST
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blam
To: blam
I'm surprised the ancient English had any teeth to be examined.
Maybe their lack of dental hygiene is a relatively new phenomenon.
To: blam
It seems more likely that there was a small-scale immigration from continental Europe and that the existing British population adopted the customs of these outsiders as their own. I am sure that being enslaved encouraged the native Britons in that regard.
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:43:29 PM PST
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Plutarch
To: Plutarch
This is so bogus. It says absolutely nothing. The scientists found some skeletons that do not have certain continental isotopes. Of course not. Life was short and the AS children would not have their parents isotopes
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posted on
03/17/2004 6:12:02 PM PST
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mlmr
(Now that same sex marriage is legal, who will John Kerry marry next? Bill Gates? Warren Buffet?`12)
To: blam
I'm not so sure this finding means much. True, only one set of teeth developed across the water. The others could have been second-generation, third-generation, whatever. That test only shows where you grew up, not how you came to be there or whether you were Celtic or Saxon.
To: blam
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posted on
03/17/2004 6:45:56 PM PST
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blam
To: VadeRetro; Plutarch
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posted on
03/17/2004 6:50:59 PM PST
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blam
To: blam
Now that's better evidence for the same proposition.
To: blam
To: blam
How about some DNA testing and comparisons on that?
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posted on
03/17/2004 6:57:57 PM PST
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nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: VadeRetro
"Now that's better evidence for the same proposition." I agree. I thought I had seen something like that...took me a while to find it. You've probably already seen the article linked below.
English And Welsh Are Races Apart
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posted on
03/17/2004 7:10:49 PM PST
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blam
To: nmh
"How about some DNA testing and comparisons on that?" See the link in post #13.
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posted on
03/17/2004 7:11:59 PM PST
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blam
To: blam
Thanks. I'll read through it.
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posted on
03/17/2004 7:36:15 PM PST
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nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: blam
History books say Anglo-Saxons replaced the Britons in England
Well, now I am lost. I always thought that Anglos were Britons, hence the name England.
What was the country of origin of the Anglos, in not England?
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03/17/2004 7:49:00 PM PST
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gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
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