1 posted on
03/17/2004 5:19:16 PM PST by
blam
To: farmfriend
Cheddar Man (Descendent Of Stone Age Skeleton Found, 9,000 Year Old)
2 posted on
03/17/2004 5:22:12 PM PST by
blam
To: blam
3 posted on
03/17/2004 5:25:10 PM PST by
blam
To: blam
The teeth in the photo obviously could not belong to a Brit--they're much too straight! ;^)
4 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.
5 posted on
03/17/2004 5:26:53 PM PST by
marron
To: blam
7 posted on
03/17/2004 5:32:09 PM PST by
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.
9 posted on
03/17/2004 5:43:29 PM PST by
Plutarch
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
12 posted on
03/17/2004 6:45:56 PM PST by
blam
To: blam
To: blam
How about some DNA testing and comparisons on that?
16 posted on
03/17/2004 6:57:57 PM PST by
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?
20 posted on
03/17/2004 7:49:00 PM PST by
gcruse
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23 posted on
03/18/2004 7:38:26 PM PST by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: blam
The guy in the photo reminds me of Tom Petty.
To: Rytwyng
You may find this of interest
To: blam
"Chemical analysis of human teeth from a Medieval cemetery in Yorkshire found few individuals of continental origin."
Wrong cemetary. Possibly very few Anglo Saxons were killed at the time; those burried in that section were locals; it never happened.
29 posted on
03/24/2004 11:57:56 AM PST by
Henchman
(I Hench, therefore I am!)
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