What exactly is the population history of Britain? How was it peopled? What historic migration was there, especially after the Anglo-Saxon period ended at Hastings?
>celticHow are those populations celtic if they don't cluster with """celtic""" populations, descend from proto-germanic bell beakers who were genetically indistiguishable from anglo saxons and are genetically closer to anglo saxons than the english themselves?
>>18225265Bump
>>18225419It says on the image Celtic = iron age British & Irish.
so french=gaulish blood?
bump
>>18225265After Hastings, you had a some flows of people across the channel from France, sometimes in waves, sometimes as trickles. The Scots for instance had a whole period of inviting Bretons, Flems, Normans, and Frenchmen in the 12th and 13th centuries. The Stewarts and the Bruces both came to Scotland in this period of migration. But it wasn’t just nobles and knights bust also skilled craftsmen and merchants. England had a larger and more consistent flow from the continent through the Norman, Angevin, and Plantagenet periods. The Norman Conquest completely replaced the landowning class of England within a generation. While that class was the minority of the population, it was still a significant number in an already scarcely populated kingdom (compared to France). Then factor in all the knights and household servants that much have also come over with lords freshly establishing themselves in England. It didn’t completely change England’s core demographics like the Anglo-Saxon migrations, but it was significant and surely had a good impact. With England connected to French realms, you often had some knights or other nobility cross the channel, but never on the same scale. The next major movement into England came with the Huguenots, French Protestants flee persecution in the 1500s. I personally don’t know much about it, but it was significant and I’ve seen people put it forward as an explanation for some of the French dna found the 2022 paper in OP.
Obviously how Britain was peopled is one of the most well-studied and the anthropological phenomenon that seems to garner the most interest, and yet always poorly understood broadly. I think this is because when you get to pre-history and all the fun linguistic terms (that everyone mistakes for ethnic terms) stop getting used, peoples' brains turn off. Solutrean peoples repopulated what is pretty likely to be an empty Britain from the last glacial maximum refugia in Spain and southern France. Then Farming populations (EEF) ultimately from Anatolia, these people do not completely replace WHG but they definitely are predominant; NEXT Epoch you finally have PIE speaking metallurgists or "bell-beaker" which is the point at which people start to chimp out but they are just a yamnaya influenced eef people; this is the peopling of the island (and frankly its rather similar in the rest of western europe) what happens next is just a matter of linguistic curiosity, because the people movements after this at least for a very long time are just going to be effectively genetically similar people with very "innovative" languages (languages that change relatively rapidly). This is the simplest way I could put it and I did my best to be as accurate as possible, I could have some minor details wrong.
