Origins Of The British

'British prehistory will never look the same again.' Professor Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge

Stephen Oppenheimer's extraordinary scientific detective story combining genetics, linguistics, archaeology and historical record shatters the myths we have come to live by. It demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxon invasions contributed just a tiny fraction (5%) to the English gene pool.

Two-thirds of the English people reveal an unbroken line of genetic descent from south-western Europeans arri...