The Origins of the British by Stephen Oppenheimer
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.
"* 'The thrill of this book lies in the vast reaches of time and space that one is deftly guided through' Emma Crichton-Miller, Sunday Telegraph * 'I can put my finger on a map and say that is where my people came from... research by Dr Oppenheimer and others has now given us all the right to say that.' The Economist"
Stephen Oppenheimer of University of Oxford is a leading expert in the use of DNA to track migrations. His last book Out of Eden rewrote the prehistory of man's peopling of the world in a thesis that has since been confirmed in Science. 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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| ISBN 13 | 9781845291587 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845291581 |
| Title | The Origins of the British |
| Author | Stephen Oppenheimer |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2006-09-11 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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