Well the Britons and Picts were also Celtic-speaking people, and they may have displaced the actual indigenous pophttps://twitter.com/TR_Macbeth/status/768708376708526080 …
Or the indigenous pop was assimilated into the Britons and the Picts.
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But Celtic is a language group, and is not necessary defined by descent as well.
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But by that time in Scotland, it tended to be based on royal descent, tbh. Usurpers existed, such as Macbeth, but he was cousin of prev king
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Also, the link talks about how tanistry was used for succession...it is unclear how extensive tanistry was.
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mitochondrial DNA results suggest no wholesale replacement of British pop in prehistoric times per Pryor, _Britain BC_
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Don't ask me nothin about post 0CE though, that's not really my bailiwick.
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