This is a great article by Bryan Ward-Perkins & well worth a read! I have fond memories of discussing this with him :)https://twitter.com/Medievalists/status/965920259747254273 …
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This is well worth a look too, fwiw :) Hildegard Tristram, ‘Why don't the English speak Welsh?’ http://www.hildegard.tristram.de/media/tristram_manchester_30-07-07.pdf …
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in 2016 we got our first paper on Iron age British vs. AS period genomes see: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10408 … Obviously with new Bell Beaker paper we'll see more studies looking at Iron age/early medieval period hopefully.
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Hopefully so :) Certainly interesting paper, tho' obv can't fully address question of immigration etc given, e.g. theory that maj of popn in 5th-7thC weren't buried in 'Anglo-Saxon' cems, Might be interesting to look at 8th-9thC cems, perhaps, to look at period immediately after?
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Indeed well it's cumalative, at the moment it's sorta like when C-14 and isotope analysis was first brought in. In time it'll snowball, what would help as well is equivalent period genomes from continental Northern Europe to act as a comparison
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the Heinrich paper is interesting, but from a DNA point of view it's very much of it's time (2011) at that time we lack aDNA (ancient DNA) full genomes, so he's restricted to talking about modern Y-Chromosome distrubution (Y only makes up 2% of a man's DNA)
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You make me smarter , every day, Dr Green.
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