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So the brits arent who they thought they were after all
It has long been held that most Brits are the descendants of the people who walked across the English channel at the end of the last ice age - but recent DNA studies reveal that up to 90% of the population of these islands was replaced by new comers about 4300 years ago.
It has long been known that the pan European phenomena of 'Beaker people' arrived in England in about 2200BC bringing with them their eponymous beakers, copper tools and different methods of disposing of the dead but it was always thought that this was a cultural change not a population change - itself a slightly bizarre belief because it has long been recognized that the burials in the older 'long barrows' had longer 'dolichocephalic' skulls whilst those in the later 'round barrows' has round 'brachycephalic' skulls - hence the old saying -
"long barrows, long heads round barrows round heads"
you would think that this sudden change in skull shape might have suggested a change in population but no it was usually explained as being caused by differences in diet (although no one ever said what this difference actually was!)
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2018/article/ancient-dna-tells-tales-of-humans-migrant-history
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