• DOI:10.1038/ncomms10326
Corpus ID: 13817552

Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons

@article{Martiniano2016GenomicSO,
  title={Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons},
  author={R. Martiniano and Anwen Caffell and Malin Holst and Kurt Hunter-Mann and J. Montgomery and G. M{\"u}ldner and R. McLaughlin and M. Teasdale and W. van Rheenen and J. Veldink and L. H. van den Berg and O. Hardiman and M. Carroll and S. Roskams and J. Oxley and Colleen Morgan and Mark George Thomas and I. Barnes and Christine McDonnell and M. Collins and D. Bradley},
  journal={Nature Communications},
  year={2016},
  volume={7}
}

R. Martiniano, Anwen Caffell, +18 authors D. Bradley

Published 2016

Biology, Medicine

Nature Communications

The purported migrations that have formed the peoples of Britain have been the focus of generations of scholarly controversy. However, this has not benefited from direct analyses of ancient genomes. Here we report nine ancient genomes (∼1 ×) of individuals from northern Britain: seven from a Roman era York cemetery, bookended by earlier Iron-Age and later Anglo-Saxon burials. Six of the Roman genomes show affinity with modern British Celtic populations, particularly Welsh, but significantly… CONTINUE READING

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