The Origins of the British: The New Prehistory of Britain

ISBN-13: 9781845294823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 656 str.

Stephen Oppenheimer

Opis

A scientific detective story combining genetics, linguistics, archaeology and historical record that shatters the myths we have come to live by. It demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxon invasions contributed just a tiny fraction to the English gene pool.

Recenzje

Be prepared to have all your cherished notions of English history and Britishness swept away. Clive Gamble

O autorze

Oppenheimer, StephenStephen Oppenheimer, author of Eden in the East, qualified in medicine from Oxford to begin a career in tropical paediatrics. He has spent 20 years working and travelling in the Far East and Pacific region and is a world-recognised expert in the synthesis of DNA studies with archaeological and other evidence to track ancient migrations. His first book Eden in the East: The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia challenged the orthodox view of the origins of Polynesians as rice farmers from Taiwan.