History has long maintained that the Anglo-Saxon overtaking of the Iron Age Celts was the origin of the British people. "Celtic Britain" reconstructs the peopling of Britain -- through a study of genetics, climatology, archaeology, language, culture, and history -- and overturns that myth and others. The Anglo-Saxons, who supposedly conquered the Celts, contributed only five to ten percent of the British gene pool. The "Atlantic Celts," long believed to have migrated to Britain from Central Europe around 300 BC during the ...
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History has long maintained that the Anglo-Saxon overtaking of the Iron Age Celts was the origin of the British people. "Celtic Britain" reconstructs the peopling of Britain -- through a study of genetics, climatology, archaeology, language, culture, and history -- and overturns that myth and others. The Anglo-Saxons, who supposedly conquered the Celts, contributed only five to ten percent of the British gene pool. The "Atlantic Celts," long believed to have migrated to Britain from Central Europe around 300 BC during the Iron Age, can be linked genetically to the people of Basque country. And linguistic evidence suggests that, besides Celtic languages, a Germanic-type language similar to Norse was also spoken in Britain long before the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons. In this groundbreaking study, Stephen Oppenheimer explaines the surprising roots of the present-day cultural identities of the English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh.
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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.
