Isn't it? I'm going to track down the report in Nature, though I'll probably understand 1 word in 3.
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Replying to @llewelyn_morgan @holland_tom
If not found yet, here it is. There's a link at the top of the other Oxford Uni article.https://www.nature.com/news/uk-mapped-out-by-genetic-ancestry-1.17136 …
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Replying to @bootjangler @llewelyn_morgan
But not clear whether the evidence PROVES that the A-Saxons only arrived post-Roman, or whether that is merely being assumed?
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Replying to @holland_tom @llewelyn_morgan
I'll leave that to the historians etc. I'm just disappointed that the Vikings left little genetic influence. I was hoping I had a bit of that flowing about.......
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Fwiw, it's an oldish study (2015) and has been subject to some scepticism about how significant the differences are and alternative interpretations e.g. on the 'absence' of the Vikings in it, see https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/div-classtitlethe-people-of-the-british-isles-project-and-viking-settlement-in-englanddiv/54E19CAFF9AC2BEB39EAEC826BEDBC63 … :)
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Thanks! Exposing some of the assumptions you were wondering about, potentially, Tom.
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Potentially, yes. I have at the back of my mind that
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Replying to @holland_tom @llewelyn_morgan and
There's an overview of the criticisms of this & other genomic research in The Anglo-Saxon Fenland
. As @caitlinrgreen sugg., the genomic research is flawed because it makes unfounded assumptions about what the data 'should' reveal, 1/21 reply 0 retweets 7 likes -
Replying to @DrSueOosthuizen @holland_tom and
rather than looking at what the data *does* reveal. As things stand we still don't know whether post-Roman migration was greater/the same/less than the usual ebb/flow; nor where people came from; nor whether / how it was/was not special in any way
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Replying to @DrSueOosthuizen @holland_tom and
That’s superbly concise, thx. Tangentially, I was cycling around the fringes of Otmoor today (long story: a dentist & no car), & the landscape, very Fenny, intrigued me. It’s your tweets, more than anything, that have opened my eyes to the history conveyed in a landscape.
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Sue is simply the best for this, her reading of the landscape is so inspiring! :)
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