Have a browse through the phone book at the distribution of names. It's surprising how many names from a similar origin remain within a 20 mile radius. A few years ago they did a dna test around the village of Cheddar to see if anyone was related to the Neolithic man found buried in one of the caves and found an astonishing number were. Place names are also a good indicator of origin, and especially names for local landmarks.
Is he still on here? Like his previous incarnations is he still suffering from French mentionitis? Is he slipping up and talking in euros and kilometres? Using terms like 'over there' when talking about the UK? Frothing at the mouth about racial inequality yet? He normally implodes when he gets to that stage. If not, perhaps he's learning from past mistakes although I doubt it.
According to the latest studies the vast majority of people in the British Isles are of pre Celtic stock with some admixture from Vikings ,Norman's ect.
I don't doubt it. Science has been running around to prove all manner of origins when the relevant information has been there all along. Genealogy can go so far in maintaining a family tie to the region where you're from and dna will establish the science from the known facts of those origins. Australian Aborigines insisted for decades they'd been on the continent for 100,000 years and it wasn't until recent genetic mapping it turned out they were more or less correct.
Irrelevant, as already pointed out.
The article did not refer to the average Brit. Read the article carfully, especially this bit: "most white British people"
www.theguardian.com
Read the article carefully, especially the bit about other 'immigrants' to the UK:
I said neither of those things.
Vinty lives in a fantasy land.
Your understanding of maths and DNA is at fault.
dna-explained.com
Are you trying to remind us that your ears and eyes are still closed to anything that disproves your world view?
Show us any number of these studies.
I like this one better.It isn't telling us anything we didn't already know...
ucl.ac.uk
I have a much read copy of 'The Celts' written by Nora Chadwick and one of the maps is very similar to the one published above in a study conducted in 2015:
An international team, led by researchers from the University of Oxford, UCL and the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Australia, used DNA samples collected from more than 2,000 people to create the first fine-scale genetic map of any country in the world. Their findings, published in Nature, show that prior to the mass migrations of the 20th century there was a striking pattern of rich but subtle genetic variation across the UK, with distinct groups of genetically similar individuals clustered together geographically.
By comparing this information with DNA samples from over 6,000 Europeans, the team was also able to identify clear traces of the population movements into the UK over the past 10,000 years. Their work confirmed, and in many cases shed further light on, known historical migration patterns.
The term 'Celt' is a 19th century definition that broadly groups Cornish, Welsh, Scots and Irish into a big bowl and stirs up a genetic soup to satisfy the tastes of Nationalists in the era when those nations were close to losing their character through English domination.
DNA testing doesn't tell the whole story and other influences like art, poetry and literature should be taken into consideration. It's a bit like describing the treasure trove found in a lake at Neuchatel and lumping the whole lot under the name 'La Tene' to describe the various tribes and clans that had distinct identities at the time.
They have the north-south border about right.
