DNA shows Anglo Saxon girl had West African grandparent in 650

DNA tests on 7th-century remains at an 'upper crust' Anglo-Saxon cemetary in Kent, England, reveal some of those buried there had far-flung genetic origins. One girl's paternal grandfather was '100% West African,' writes Stephan Schiffels, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and co-author of the research, published in Antiquity. — Read the rest
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