@caitlinrgreen Just heard Prof Donnelly interviewed on BBC R4 Inside Science: excellent interview. Hear it again on http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b055jpnq … >
@DrSueOosthuizen > from c800-915 for admixture (dates from memory as out & about, but def that sort of area!). So potentially 450 yrs after!
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@caitlinrgreen that implies a steady stream of a smaller no of migrants across the 1st mill. Makes sense. Puts paid to Hengest tho :) -
@DrSueOosthuizen Hah! Yes, pondered same, though gets difficult into 7/8C as DNA doesn't allow for signif Scan component but N German...> -
@DrSueOosthuizen > But what about linking to acculturation? I.e. By and large immigrant-descended ppl not avoiding all Britons but rather > -
@DrSueOosthuizen > unacculturated ones, which then explains later main admixture date, as acculturation prob primarily 7-8thC phenomenon! > -
@DrSueOosthuizen > And w/ some continuing into L8/9C or later, as we've discussed before? This model might work to explain DNA data, no? :) -
@caitlinrgreen that's interesting - worth pursuing. Interestingly more complex than the ASC
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