Category Anglo Saxons

Speculation on Possible New R-ZP121 Anglo-Saxon Burials

fenland with old windmill. credit alamy

Genetic results from a new paper, Continental Connections Transformed the Genetics and Appearance of Early Medieval England, were released before publication. Here is a link to the genomic data and an abstract from the paper at ENA. Nicely, a person…

Now and Not Now

Ed Elmer's name on the obelisk at Hartford Connecticut.

Old Norse Specialist Jackson Crawford I’ve listened to a lot of Jackson Crawford videos over the past several years. If you’re interested in the sagas and the eddas, or the differences between old Norse and other Germanic languages, you should…

R-CTS12023 R-DF95 Homeland

two boats on shore

In this round of notes, I’m going to look at Iain McDonald’s draft paper again, with subclade information that happily includes R-DF95 Background The draft paper is well worth a read. Regarding R-Z18, Iain laments the lack of information…

Notes on R-Z18 in Steppe Ancestry Pre-print

These are my notes from the pre-print Steppe Ancestry in western Eurasia and the spread of the Germanic Languages. It hasn’t been peer-reviewed. This is, at it’s heart, an autosomal study, but it does contain some Y-DNA information. They’re trying…

More Wandering Thoughts on Ancient DNA

Two Pine Island

Leaving behind Anglo-Saxon England, there are currently no R-CTS12023/R-DF95 ancient DNA results to look at and compare. It’s as if we popped up in England even though the results of the recent Anglo-Saxon DNA study clearly show an affinity for…

Wandering Thoughts on Ancient DNA

Baston Fen photo Terry Barnatt

A fellow ZP121 person recently asked how many ZP121 men I thought might exist in the world. It’s a tricky question because there are about 57 men known now. Each might represent a family with tens or hundreds of living…

Navel-Gazing About the R-DF95 Jutes Part Two

kingdom of Kent

In my previous post I swung back around to Dover, Kent, and the Jutes and tried to find evidence for their existence along with some explanation that would get them from the top of Jutland to the bottom of Brittain…

Navel-Gazing About The R-DF95 Jutes

Two Pine Island

Three of the R-DF95/CTS12023 men from the Anglo-Saxon migration study show up in Kent. One of those men is on a Y male line that is currently very rare (R-PH1163), with only two modern testers. One tester is from Norway,…

T2A1A in the Early Middle Ages in England

Worth Matravers taken by Petr Titze

Another follow-up on the Article on Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool. See my previous posts for more information on R-DF95 Y DNA and Continental Northern European migration to Britain part 1 and part 2.…

It’s My Swamp – Anglo-Saxon DF95 Follow Up

Baston Fen photo Terry Barnatt

I didn’t have to wait long to follow up on my previous post. The paper on The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool is published along with supplementary data. The DF95/CTS12023 men in the samples…