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Sancho

(9,070 posts)
Sun May 8, 2016, 06:56 AM May 2016

Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms, Oxford University finds

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/14/britons-still-live-in-anglo-saxon-tribal-kingdoms-oxford-univers/

Britons are still living in the same 'tribes' that they did in the 7th Century, Oxford University has found after an astonishing study into our genetic make-up.

Archaeologists and geneticists were amazed to find that genetically similar individuals inhabit the same areas they did following the Anglo-Saxon invasion, following the fall of the Roman Empire.

In fact, a map showing tribes of Britain in 600AD is almost identical to a new chart showing genetic variability throughout the UK, suggesting that local communities have stayed put for the past 1415 years.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/science/2016/03/14/816-14267045631796800873-xxlarge_trans++raxzbuq6qvucJcteAiGkVG-YXbkBJcsVi9PwTqHXS4w.png
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Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms, Oxford University finds (Original Post) Sancho May 2016 OP
Cousins in Devon say we flamingdem May 2016 #1
Follows the cat-in-the-box axiom packman May 2016 #2
 

packman

(16,296 posts)
2. Follows the cat-in-the-box axiom
Sun May 8, 2016, 11:08 AM
May 2016

"If it fits, we sits"




Probably could do the same study for family clans in Appalachia America.

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