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The end of Roman Britain: families, ancestors and DNA

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Is There Evidence for Mass Migration?

There's evidence for a substantial population movement from what's now northern europe into britain in the fifth and sixth centuries. What we probably have to do really is start talking about it in terms of mass migration, which isa phraseology thatas probably been avoided over the last 20 years. We talk about leat migration, or the sort of migration of culture, rather than the movement of people. But absolutely on the cards is that is that idea of mass migration. And i think tha's quite important, because you've almost certainly got them people who are moving and settling in established units already they are families who a moving a. People inspired by where they came from, and coming

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