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On 24/10/15 08:04, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> by limiting its focus
> to those whose grandparents were all born within 80 km of each other, it
> is obviously biased to immobility.

I felt that the criteria were rather lax.  I could manage all 4 
grandparents, indeed all 8 ggparents born with 8km.

Rather than rely in the Telegraph's report here are the links back to 
research:

http://www.peopleofthebritishisles.org/
http://www.peopleofthebritishisles.org/nl6.pdf
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v519/n7543/full/nature14230.html and
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v519/n7543/extref/nature14230-s1.pdf

The paper seems to be somewhat misnamed as it extends to N Ireland. OTOH 
if this is its full scope the project is also misnamed as the paper 
omits the bulk of Ireland.

 From an ecological point of view the most striking thing is that the 
map divides between the lowland & highland zones of Britain.  The 
lowland zone is somewhat homgenous and the highland zone is subdivided 
into a number of geographically distinct clusters.  The authors see 
these clusters as originating largely in pre-Roman population divisions, 
a possible break-down of these in the area of Roman occupation and then 
a superimposition of AngloSaxon settlement.  I think relative ease of 
communication in the lowland zone vs the highland zone may be another 
factor.

This goes a long way to explaining one facet of genealogy.  There seem 
to be a lot of genealogists who consider it feasible that everybody in 
Britain/UK/whatever are descended from Edward II/Edward 
III/Carlemagne/whoever whilst to others it seems completely infeasible.
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Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms, Oxford University finds Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2015-10-24 07:16 +0200
  Re: Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms, Oxford University finds "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> - 2015-10-24 08:04 +0100
    Re: Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms, Oxford University finds Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2015-10-24 09:29 +0200
      Re: Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms, Oxford University finds "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> - 2015-10-24 09:12 +0100
        Re: Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms, Oxford University finds Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> - 2015-10-24 09:45 +0100
          Re: Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms, Oxford University finds Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2015-10-24 14:02 +0200
    Re: Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms, Oxford University finds Ian Goddard <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-10-24 21:35 +0100
  Re: Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms, Oxford University finds Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> - 2015-10-24 08:37 +0100

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