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Pointing to the Great Migration of the Bronze Age
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3 Jan 2022 12:01
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Middle Bronze Age to Late It was during this time that the settlement of farming communities spread across the southern landscape of the United Kingdom. Simultaneously, trade routes were developed widely to allow the movement of metal ore to produce bronze.
Recently, a new major research report. Led by experts from the University of York in England, Harvard College of Medicine. in the United States and the University of Vienna in Austria, which traced the movement of people in the southern United Kingdom during the Bronze Age. They examined the genetic material or DNA of nearly 800 ancient populations. was mixed with the population of southern England thoroughly during 1000-875 BC. The origins of these immigrants are yet to be determined. But most likely came from communities in and around present-day France.
Researchers have revealed that some of the earliest genetic anomalies found in the British city of Kent
indicate that the southeastern United Kingdom
The kingdom could be a target for immigration to the UK. It is also expected that new DNA evidence may shed light on a long-standing question.
about when the early Celtic languages arrived in England.
(Image credit: Wessex Archeology)
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