The Origins of the British: The New Prehistory of Britain
The New Prehistory of Britain
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- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
12 April 2007
Summary
‘British prehistory will never look the same again.’ Professor Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781845294823 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1845294823 |
| Author: | Stephen Oppenheimer |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 2007 |
| Weight: | 466g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 135mm x 42mm |
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Be prepared to have all your cherished notions of English history and Britishness swept away.– Clive Gamble
Be prepared to have all your cherished notions of English history and Britishness swept away. * Clive Gamble *
The historians’ account is wrong in almost every detail. In DrOppenheimer’s reconstruction of events, the principal ancestorsof today’s British and Irish populations arrived from Spainabout 16,000 years ago.
* New York Times *He upends some of the most deeply rooted notions of wherethe British people come from, and does so in a clear, painstakingand detailed way. The result is both fascinating and unexpected.
* Geographical *Particularly illuminating … The author carefully lays out the genetic data that show how three-quarters of Britishness dates to the repopulation after the northern ice sheets last retreated, andtakes us through a fascinating investigation of what this means for some cherished notions of Britishness.
* Nature *About The Author
Stephen Oppenheimer
Stephen Oppenheimer of the University of Oxford is a leading expert in the use of DNA to track migrations and his previous book Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World rewrote the prehistory of man’s early colonization of the world. He is also the author of Eden in the East: The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia, which challenged the orthodox view of the origins of Polynesians as rice farmers from Taiwan.
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