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The Origins of the British: The New Prehistory of Britain

Finally, Oppenheimer puts new detail on the genetic legacy of the Viking invasions. He reveals that Orkney and Shetland, far from being victims, had been part of the Scandinavian world long before the Viking onslaught and, through the evidence of their genes, participated actively in raids on Ireland and the colonization of Iceland.

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  • "The author offers a revolutionary theory about the origins of the British people, based on the very latest genetic evidence."
  • "Finally, Oppenheimer puts new detail on the genetic legacy of the Viking invasions. He reveals that Orkney and Shetland, far from being victims, had been part of the Scandinavian world long before the Viking onslaught and, through the evidence of their genes, participated actively in raids on Ireland and the colonization of Iceland."@en
  • "Stephen Oppenheimer's extraordinary scientific detective story combining genetics, linguistics, archaeology and historical record shatters the myths we have come to live by. It demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxon invasions contributed just a tiny fraction (5%) to the English gene pool. Two thirds of the English people reveal an unbroken line of genetic descent from south-western Europeans arriving long before the first farmers. The bulk of the remaining third arrived between 7,000 and 3,000 years ago as part of long-term north-west European trade and immigration, especially from Scandinavia -"@en
  • "The mtDNA and Y-chromosome genetic data has rapidly piled up about the British people. Synthesising the genetic evidence with linguistics, archaeology and history, this work aims to break the findings about the origins of the British people. The first scoop is that the roots of English identity lie over 6000 years ago, not with the Anglo-Saxons."@en

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  • "The Origins of the British: The New Prehistory of Britain"@en
  • "The origins of the British : a genetic detective story"@en
  • "The origins of the British : a genetic detective story"
  • "The origins of the British : a genetic detective story: the surprising roots of the ENglish, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh"
  • "The Origins of the British"@en
  • "The origins of the British a genetic detective story : the surprising roots of the English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh"@en
  • "The Origins of the British : a genetic detective story"
  • "The origins of the British : a genetic detective story : the surprising roots of the English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh"@en
  • "The origins of the British : a genetic detective story : the surprising roots of the English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh"
  • "The origins of the British [the new prehistory of Britain and Ireland from ice-age hunter gatherers to the Vikings as revealed by DNA analysis]"
  • "The origins of the British"@en
  • "The origins of the British"

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