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Loading... Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Irelandby Bryan Sykes
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Too little science, too much potted history, too much padding: http://stromata.typepad.com/stromata_... (  )TomVeal | Mar 7, 2008 |   There is some interesting science here, but perhaps not enough to justify a book. The methodology and conclusions could have gone into a normal journal article (and probably did, at one time). The book is more about how the work was done, with some history of the British Isles thrown in. I was left feeling it had been padded quite a bit to get up to book length. Larxol | Feb 4, 2008 | 0.017 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0393062686, Hardcover)WASPs finally get their due in this stimulating history by one of the world's leading geneticists.Saxons, Vikings, and Celts is the most illuminating book yet to be written about the genetic history of Britain and Ireland. Through a systematic, ten-year DNA survey of more than 10,000 volunteers, Bryan Sykes has traced the true genetic makeup of British Islanders and their descendants. This historical travelogue and genetic tour of the fabled isles, which includes accounts of the Roman invasions and Norman conquests, takes readers from the Pontnewydd cave in North Wales, where a 300,000-year-old tooth was discovered, to the resting place of "The Red Lady" of Paviland, whose anatomically modern body was dyed with ochre by her grieving relatives nearly 29,000 years ago. A perfect work for anyone interested in the genealogy of England, Scotland, or Ireland, Saxons, Vikings, and Celts features a chapter specifically addressing the genetic makeup of those people in the United States who have descended from the British Isles. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:05 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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