The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story: The Surprising Roots of the English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006. Cloth, xxi, 534 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), maps; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Carroll & Graf edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "History has long maintained that the Anglo-Saxon overtaking of the Iron Age Celts was the origin of the British people. Celtic Britain reconstructs the peopling of Britain--through a study of genetics, climatology, archaeology, language, culture, and history--and overturns that myth and others. The Anglo-Saxons, who supposedly conquered the Celts, contributed only five to ten percent of the British gene pool. The 'Atlantic Celts,' long believed to have migrated to Britain from Central Europe around 300 BC during the Iron Age, can be linked genetically to the people of Basque country. And linguistic evidence suggests that, besides Celtic languages, a Germanic-type language similar to Norse was also spoken in Britain long before the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons. In this groundbreaking study, Stephen Oppenheimer explaines the surprising roots of the present-day cultural identities of the English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh. / Stephen Oppenheimer of the University of Oxford is an expert in the use of DNA to track migrations. His Out of Eden rewrote the prehistory of man’s peopling of the world in a thesis since confirmed in Science, while Eden in the East: the Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia challenged the view of the origins of Polynesians as Taiwanese rice farmers." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.