Unpublished mtDNA and Y-chromosome genetic data has rapidly piled up about the British people. Synthesising the new genetic evidence with linguistics, archaeology and history, Stephen Oppenheimer breaks dramatic findings about the origins of the British people. The first scoop is that the roots of English identity lie over 6000 years ago, not with the Anglo-Saxons. The 'Anglo-Saxon invasion' contributed only 5-10 per cent of male English genes. Instead, the genetic evidence reveals that the majority of English people derive ...
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Unpublished mtDNA and Y-chromosome genetic data has rapidly piled up about the British people. Synthesising the new genetic evidence with linguistics, archaeology and history, Stephen Oppenheimer breaks dramatic findings about the origins of the British people. The first scoop is that the roots of English identity lie over 6000 years ago, not with the Anglo-Saxons. The 'Anglo-Saxon invasion' contributed only 5-10 per cent of male English genes. Instead, the genetic evidence reveals that the majority of English people derive directly from before the first farmers. Secondly, new genetic findings finally answer the question of Celtic genetic identity. The putative origins of the Celts is an issue real for millions of people, from sore-lunged Glasgow football fans to the refined Celtic diasporas of North America and Australia. Gene lines prove once and for all the continued existence of a discrete, British Atlantic coast-based population that first spread north from the Basque country at the end of the last Ice Age - not Iron Age Europe. The division between England and the Atlantic fringe started to build up from that time. Finally, Oppenheimer puts new detail on the genetic legacy of the Viking invasions. He reveals that Orkney and Shetland, far from being victims, had been part of the Scandinavian world long before the Viking onslaught and, through the evidence of their genes, participated actively in raids on Ireland and the colonization of Iceland.
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Stephen Oppenheimer's books are always interesting, even though they ask the reader to keep in mind a vast amount of information collated and compared from half a dozen disciplines. "The Origins of the British" is probably the most readable of his books. He brings to bear DNA studies, archeologogy, history, and linguistics on some thorny questions about the origins of the people of Britain. The book came into being when journalists misrepresented a carefully nuanced statement that Oppenheimer gave in an interview regarding how far back Celtic and Germanic people have inhabited the British Isles. We are richer for it. His account takes us back to the repeopling of northern Europe following the Last Glacier Maximum and subsequent migrations and cultural diffusion movements into the area of the British Isles. In the process, he reveals not only some extraordinary facts based on DNA studies, but he also presents evidence that the Celts originated in southern France, not Central Europe, and that the roots of English go back to a Germanic presence in Britain that predates the Roman occupation. This book is a welcome feast from many viewpoints. My only criticism is that the U.S. edition, which I bought, is printed on paper of poor quality and occasionally names or places mentioned in the text are not to be found on maps or in the index. One gets the impression that the book was prepared in record time. Yet, over-all, the editing standard does credit to its publishers. Highly recommended.
