For anyone still interested in the new DNA study, worth noting that despite issues, are a couple of interesting things to note. Perhaps >
@VoxHiberionacum > idea of a signif time period before major intermarriage... So absence odd & adds to sense that this was done by ppl not >
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@VoxHiberionacum > entirely familiar w/ recent scholarship on post-Roman period (I'd expect peer-review to pick up, but hey...!)
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@caitlinrgreen (Maybe they took a look at new Vikings and had 2nd thoughts ;) [V. interesting conservative regionality/movements though]. -
@VoxHiberionacum Yes, that aspect is intriguing--though am I alone in wishing they had data from rest of Ireland?! Feels incomplete without!
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@caitlinrgreen a case of funding/jurisdiction/data protection I imagine. Future studies surely will. https://www.academia.edu/3363365/Interlaced_scholarship_genealogies_and_genetics_in_twenty-first-century_Ireland … -
@VoxHiberionacum Oh, thanks! Will have a read :) And, yes, hope so... maybe next time they could also, oooh, I dunno, look at the DNA of >
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@VoxHiberionacum > continental ppl from 'Anglian homelands' too (the new study ignored this area & almost tries to pretend ASs all Saxons!)
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@caitlinrgreen I hope you're gonna blog all this.#justsayin ;) -
@VoxHiberionacum It's tempting! I mean, seriously--most major arch evidence for mass-migration comes from the Anglian areas of England! ;)
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