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The end of Roman Britain: families, ancestors and DNA

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What Can You Tell Us About Migrant Dens?

duncan is involved with a really big project that has examined over 500 individuals from across northwestern europe, including 350 individuals from early mediaeval england. The remains were excavated from cemetery sites across south and eastern england. These cemetery sites have been radio carbon and artifact dated to the fifth to seventh century so slap bang in our period. So if he can tell us something about the ancestry of these people from their dene, well, that is breaking news.

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