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The Origins of the British: The New Prehistory of Britain (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Origins of the British: The New Prehistory of Britain (Paperback, New Ed)
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'British prehistory will never look the same again.' Professor
Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge Stephen Oppenheimer's
extraordinary scientific detective story combining genetics,
linguistics, archaeology and historical record shatters the myths
we have come to live by. It demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxon
invasions contributed just a tiny fraction (5%) to the English gene
pool. Two-thirds of the English people reveal an unbroken line of
genetic descent from south-western Europeans arriving long before
the first farmers. The bulk of the remaining third arrived between
7,000 and 3,000 years ago as part of long-term north-west European
trade and immigration, especially from Scandinavia - and may have
brought with them the earliest forms of English language. As for
the Celts - the Irish, Scots and Welsh - history has traditionally
placed their origins in Iron Age Central Europe. Oppenheimer's
genetic synthesis tells a different story. There is indeed a deep
divide between the English and the rest of the British. But as this
book reveals the division is many thousands of years older than
previously thought. 'Be prepared to have all your cherished notions
of English history and Britishness swept away' - Clive Gamble
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