Saxons Vikings and Celts The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland

Name: Saxons Vikings and Celts The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
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ISBN: 9780393330755

ISBN-10: 0393330753

ISBN-13: 9780393330755

Edition: 2007

Authors: Bryan Sykes

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From the best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, an illuminating guide to the genetic history of the British Isles. One of the world's leading geneticists, Bryan Sykes has helped thousands find their ancestry in the British Isles. Saxons, Vikings, and Celts, which resulted from a systematic ten-year DNA survey of more than 10,000 volunteers, traces the true genetic makeup of the British Isles and its descendants, taking readers from the Pontnewydd cave in North Wales to the resting place of "The Red Lady" of Paviland and the tomb of King Arthur. Genealogy has become a popular pastime of Americans interested in their heritage, and this is the perfect work for anyone interested in…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Bryan Sykes is professor of genetics at the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University & was the editor of "The Human Inheritance: Genes, Language, & Evolution".



Acknowledgements


List of illustrations


North American Preface


Maps


Prologue



Twelve Thousand Years of Solitude



Who Do We Think We Are?



The Resurgent Celts



The Skull Snatchers



The Blood Bankers



The Silent Messengers



The Nature of the Evidence



Ireland



The DNA of Ireland



Scotland



The Picts



The DNA of Scotland



Wales



The DNA of Wales



England



Saxons, Danes, Vikings and Normans



The DNA of England



The Blood of the Isles


Appendix


Index