Drawing on the latest scientific techniques and discoveries, archaeologist David Miles offers a fresh look at the peoples of Britain and Ireland.
Who are the English, Scots, Welsh, and Irish? They are "a ragbag of migrants, reflecting thousands of years of continuity and change." Now, new scientific techniques can be used to explore this complex genetic jigsaw—ancient Britons and Saxons, Celts and Romans, Vikings and Normans, and more recent migrations. Drawing on the latest discoveries, this book both challenges traditional views of history and provides new insight into the British and Irish today. Previously an Associate Professor at Stanford University in California, David Miles is a Research Fellow of the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford and a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. The author of many books, he is also a former columnist for the London TIMES.