Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and IrelandFrom the best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, a perfect book for anyone interested in the genetic history of Britain, Ireland, and America. One of the world's leading geneticists, Bryan Sykes has helped thousands find their ancestry in the British Isles. Saxons, Vikings, and Celts, which resulted from a systematic ten-year DNA survey of more than 10,000 volunteers, traces the true genetic makeup of the British Isles and its descendants, taking readers from the Pontnewydd cave in North Wales to the resting place of the Red Lady of Paviland and the tomb of King Arthur. This illuminating guide provides a much-needed introduction to the genetic history of the people of the British Isles and their descendants throughout the world. |
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Page 8
... Europe during the five millennia since his death. Sometimes the DNA from modern people can solve long- standing riddles that had proved to be intractable by any other means. The outstanding example of this was the research on 8 SAXONS ...
... Europe during the five millennia since his death. Sometimes the DNA from modern people can solve long- standing riddles that had proved to be intractable by any other means. The outstanding example of this was the research on 8 SAXONS ...
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... Europe that I found myself drilling into the Cheddar tooth. My colleagues and I had followed the same procedure that had yielded such compelling results in Polynesia. We had collected almost 1,000 DNA samples from all over Europe and ...
... Europe that I found myself drilling into the Cheddar tooth. My colleagues and I had followed the same procedure that had yielded such compelling results in Polynesia. We had collected almost 1,000 DNA samples from all over Europe and ...
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... Europe was far less than previously thought. A few months after finding the DNA from the 12,000-year-old Cheddar tooth I got permission to repeat the process with a younger specimen from the same cave. This was the famous 'Cheddar Man ...
... Europe was far less than previously thought. A few months after finding the DNA from the 12,000-year-old Cheddar tooth I got permission to repeat the process with a younger specimen from the same cave. This was the famous 'Cheddar Man ...
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... Europe north of the Alps. mammoth The descendants of the Red Lady and their contemporaries had retreated to refuges in southern France, Italy and Spain, abandoning northern Europe to the frost and ice. Great glaciers flowed downhill ...
... Europe north of the Alps. mammoth The descendants of the Red Lady and their contemporaries had retreated to refuges in southern France, Italy and Spain, abandoning northern Europe to the frost and ice. Great glaciers flowed downhill ...
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... Europe. The sea was 100 feet lower than it is now and large tracts of land that are now under water were well above sea level. Ireland was connected to mainland Britain through a broad plain that joined it to the west coast of Scotland ...
... Europe. The sea was 100 feet lower than it is now and large tracts of land that are now under water were well above sea level. Ireland was connected to mainland Britain through a broad plain that joined it to the west coast of Scotland ...
Contents
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The Resurgent Celts | 44 |
The Skull Snatchers | 59 |
The Blood Bankers | 78 |
The Silent Messengers | 92 |
The Nature of the Evidence | 110 |
Scotland | 165 |
The Picts | 177 |
The DNA of Scotland | 186 |
Wales | 219 |
The DNA of Wales | 231 |
Saxons Danes Vikings and Normans | 255 |
The Blood of the Isles | 277 |
Index | 293 |
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ancestors ancestry ancient archaeologist Argyll army arrived Arthur Atlantic became Beddoe began blood group bones Britain British Britons Brutus Caratacus cells Celtic Celts cent century Cheddar chromosomes clan of Oisin colour Dál Riata Danes descendants DNA samples DNA sequence donor East Anglia England English Europe evidence Gaelic gene-coins genes Genetic Atlas Project Genghis Grampian hair Hebrides Highlands human inhabitants inherited invasion Ireland Irish Ursulans islands Jasmine killed King land language large numbers living look mainland maternal clans mDNA Mesolithic metres mid-Wales miles mitochondrial DNA Mount Sandel mountains mutations myth Neanderthals Neolithic Norman Norse Northern Isles Norway once origin Orkney Orkney and Shetland patrilineal Pictish Pictland Picts race raids regions Roman Saxon Scotland Scottish Shetland Sigurd Skara Brae Skye stone surnames Tara Tayside thousands tooth transfusion Tuatha Dé Danaan Ulster Viking Vortigern Wales Welsh Western Isles Wodan women Y-chromosome