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The end of Roman Britain: families, ancestors and DNA

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Family Connections at West Heselton

She's buried in the same place as that cemeter. She's effectively part of that family, and she's being buried aspart of that family. That's brilliant. We can immediately reject any sort of e hypotheses we might come up with about individuals of different ancestrybeing associated with different statuses within the communities. It shows us how important those families are to these communities. And really, for me, and look at a number other sights, we can see the same sort of family connections at west heselton through people male weapon burials who are biologically related to each other.

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