Saxons – Razib Khan

January 2, 2019 by Razib Khan 0

How the English abolished their British (Celtic) ancestors

Reading both Bryan Ward-Perkins’ 2000 paper Why did the Anglo-Saxons not become more British? and The fine scale genetic structure of the British population, published in 2015, is interesting. To date, this second paper is probably the “bes…

June 23, 2011 by Razib Khan 0

Anglo-Saxons, Anthroplogy, Barbarian Invasions, barbarians, British Genetics, Britons, Celtic Genetics, Celts, English Genetics, Folk Wandering, Genetics, Germanization, Historical Population Genetics, History, Magyars, Post-Roman, Saxons, Turks

Celts to Anglo-Saxons, in light of updated assumptions

Over the past week there have been three posts which I’ve put up which are related. Two of them have a straightforward relation, Britons, English, Germans, and collective action and Britons, English, and Dutch. But the third might not seem relate…

June 19, 2011 by Razib Khan 0

Angles, Anglo-Saxons, Britons, Celts, Genetic replacement, Genetics, Genomics, Germans, History, Jutes, Saxons

Britons, English, and Dutch

As a follow up to the previous post I’ve spent some of this weekend looking for the results which might shed some more light on the genetic impact of Germans on the British landscape between ~500-600 A.D. There are some problems here even assumin…

June 17, 2011 by Razib Khan 0

Anthroplogy, barbarians, Briton, Celts, Dark Age Britain, England, Folk Wandering, Germans, History, House of Wessex, Post-Roman, Saxons

Britons, English, Germans, and collective action

Quite often rather amusing articles which operate in the malleable zone between genetics and nationalism pop into my RSS feed (thanks to google query alerts). But this piece from Spiegel Online article, Britain Is More Germanic than It Thinks, actually…