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English DNA one third Anglo-Saxon
BBC ^ | 1/20/15 | Paul Rincon

Posted on 01/20/2016 7:49:52 AM PST by ek_hornbeck

The present-day English owe about a third of their ancestry to the Anglo-Saxons, according to a new study.

Scientists sequenced genomes from 10 skeletons unearthed in eastern England and dating from the Iron Age through to the Anglo-Saxon period.

Many of the Anglo-Saxon samples appeared closer to modern Dutch and Danish people than the Iron Age Britons did.

The results appear in Nature Communications journal.

According to historical accounts and archaeology, the Anglo-Saxons migrated to Britain from continental Europe from the 5th Century AD. They brought with them a new culture, social structure and language.

Genetic studies have tackled the question of Anglo-Saxon ancestry before, but sometimes gave conflicting results.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: anglosaxon; celts; dna; english; fartyshadesofgreen; genetics; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; ireland
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To: Justa
Exactly: if you hold out, there will be a slaughter.

If you maake terms, you get a new boss.

The Anglo-Saxons did not speak Welsh.

Yet as recently as 100 years ago, 40% of Wales did.

Welsh is still a living language today.

Another factor: when you are conquered and you are a low-status native, it will take you longer to find a wife if one is available.

The conquerors will have taken all the youngest and most attractive.

And the one you eventually find will not have as many children.

41 posted on 01/20/2016 10:34:12 AM PST by wideawake
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To: ek_hornbeck

Looking at the triple burial photo notice that the wife and kid are still talking.


42 posted on 01/20/2016 10:42:25 AM PST by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: ek_hornbeck
The Normans were genetically identical to the Danes and other Scandinavian groups, hence Normandy the place of the North Men.

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

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43 posted on 01/20/2016 11:02:43 AM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: SunkenCiv

GGG Ping


44 posted on 01/20/2016 12:18:29 PM PST by Viiksitimali
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To: Timocrat

They’re still pissed that Henry VII(my ancestor) won the War of the Roses. If I recall, he married a Plantagent so I have the blood of both. Also descended from Louis the XIV, Ferdinand and Isabella, and kings from Scotland, Austria, Hungary, and Germany. Once you’re in the royal club you’re pretty much related every other royal. Even a descendant from the Medici family of Florence.


45 posted on 01/20/2016 1:38:44 PM PST by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: wideawake

“Another factor: when you are conquered and you are a low-status native, it will take you longer to find a wife if one is available.”

It’s much simpler than that and mentioned in the Harvard article. Danegeld. The invaders place high taxes and regulations on the native Britons. In five generations they were extinct.

High taxes and regulations resulting in low birth rates. Where do we see that today, aimed at whom?


46 posted on 01/20/2016 3:11:16 PM PST by Justa
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To: ek_hornbeck
When they dug up the remains of what is now thought to be Richard III, I remember the archaeologists using the DNA of a Canadian carpenter with Plantagent ancestry as a validation. So there must still be a lot of Plantagenet blood around!
My first thought on seeing that was the opposite - they had to go abroad to find a second descendant. But maybe the idea was to try to find people who would have no other common ancestor than the Plantagenet line . . .

47 posted on 01/20/2016 3:47:14 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: Viiksitimali; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Viiksitimali.

48 posted on 01/20/2016 4:22:45 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: ek_hornbeck

>> I wonder if the Normans are sufficiently distinct genetically <<

Their grandfathers were Vikings, so their Y-chromosome DNA should be identical to that of the Vikings — somewhere in the “I” haplogroups.


49 posted on 01/20/2016 6:16:36 PM PST by Hawthorn
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To: AU72

‘e’s a bloody German, ‘e is!


50 posted on 01/20/2016 6:22:00 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (I don't know what Claire Wolfe is thinking but I know what I am thinking.)
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To: ek_hornbeck

I have a rather unusual personal connection with this story. In the 1970s I lived for several years in Driffield Terrace, York. The garden where these skeletons were later discovered was also in Driffield Terrace, only a few yards from my house.


51 posted on 01/21/2016 1:19:41 AM PST by Winniesboy
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To: ek_hornbeck

The Scandinavians have bigger teeth than do all other Europeans.


52 posted on 01/21/2016 11:22:29 AM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: Hawthorn

I M253, I1A, is the marker.


53 posted on 01/21/2016 11:59:36 AM PST by Little Bill (o)
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To: Little Bill

>> I M253, I1A, is the marker <<

Yep, a typical Viking haplogroup, as I understand such matters.

But there are probably other haplogroups carried by the Vikings and their male-line descendants. I just don’t know.

(And I guess I’m just too lazy or too disinterested to research the matter thoroughly.)


54 posted on 01/21/2016 12:25:18 PM PST by Hawthorn
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Note: this topic is from 1/20/2016. Thanks ek_hornbeck.

A few related topics from the FRchives:

55 posted on 10/16/2017 6:32:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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