From Continental Europe to England

Archaeogenetic study reveals large-scale continental migration into the East of England during the early Medieval Period

In the largest early-medieval population study to date, an interdisciplinary team consisting of geneticists and archaeologists – led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Central Lancashire – analysed over 400 individuals from ancient Britain, Ireland, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. The results show in detail one of the largest population transformations in the post-Roman world.

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Publication: Joscha Gretzinger, et al., The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool, Nature (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05247-2.

Original Story Source: MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE