The Origins of the British: The New Prehistory of Britain (90 page)
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Authors: Oppenheimer
Danish gene matches
451
Iberian influence
437
Irish links
84–5
Mesolithic in
157–8
Neolithic intrusions
230
,
234
,
241
,
243
Pictish in
71
pre-Viking ponies
278–80
Scandinavian settlement
459–61
Scotti
85
Scottish Gaelic
and Gaulish
98
as Pictish replacement
81
,
82
,
84
sea levels
after Younger Dryas
146
,
155
,
167
during LGM
115
Semitic languages
249–50
Senones
46
Shetland
456–61
Sims-Williams, Patrick
85
,
321
,
324
,
326
,
327
,
335
Skara Brae
198
Skye
461
Smith, Colin
324
Snettisham
12
Snorri Sturlusson
387
,
388
,
389
,
391
Solutrean culture
125
southern England
few Anglo-Saxon matches
439–40
Mesolithic in
160
Neolithic intrusions
308
post-Roman illiteracy
380–1
Spain
celtic in
34
metal industries
111
Welsh link
69
‘staged parallel mixing’
417
Stone Age
cultures within
125
types of
55
stone circles
255–8
stone monuments
199
stone tool typology
55
stone tools
Cresswellian
120
flint blades
159
flint spear/arrow points
125
Ice Age finds
117
microliths
156
perforated axes
260
polished axes
199
Strabo
on appearance of people from England
11
,
311
STRs (single tandem repeat sequences)
138–9
,
140–1
,
419
,
443
Sweden
393
Tacitus
on Belgic/Germanic tribes
318
,
320
on British-Belgic language
313
on common language
12
West German division
343
Tambets, Kristiina
182
teeth, evidence from
268
Thames, River
448
Thierry, Amédée
51–2
Torroni, Antonio
182
trade
England–Continent
16
and La Coruña
76
Neolithic
104
and Scandinavia
264
stone materials
161
Trans-Alpine Gaul
61
transport
255
TRB
see
funnel-necked-beakers;
Trichterbecherkultur
(TRB) pottery
Tribal Hidage
396–7
Trichterbecherkultur
(TRB) pottery
253
Tuatha Dé Danann
101
U mtDNA group
126
Umbrian dialect
89
United States
72
Upper Palaeolithic
164
Ussher, Bishop
51
V mtDNA group
124
Vasconic language
249
Venerable Bede
on ‘Angle invasion’
10
Veneti
48
Venneman, Thomas
39–40
,
84
,
369–71
Vennemann, Thomas
249–51
Vera (Pre-V) mtDNA group
126
,
127–9
,
181–2
Vikings
established colony links
480
genocide theory
461
migration levels
485–6
naming of
444–5
Norman link
467
Shetland re-expansion
456–61
Volcae Tectosages
48
Wales
English–Welsh divide
4
,
69
,
301
,
405–7
,
413–16
Iberian influence
12
,
270–1
,
308
,
437
,
473–4
,
476
post-LGM colonization
144
Watchfield
373–4
‘wave of advance theory’
288–9
weapons
Armorican bronze axes
273
Carp’s tongue swords
273
‘Celtic’ assumption
54–5
flint spear/arrow points
125
Grundlingen swords
276
Hemigkofen swords
276
Iron Age
7
Welsh language
as P-celtic
89
Wessex
cultural continuity
404
henges/grooved ware
258–60
Neolithic
272
West Germanic languages
341–3
Western Europe
language vs gene flow
296–7
recolonization
124
wheeled vehicles
255
William, Duke of Normandy
464
,
468
Wilson, Jim
418
Winchester MS
393
Woden/Odin
cult of
390–1
descendants of
389
king list convergence
386–7
,
390
Wuffa, king
393–4
Y chromosome
Anglo-Saxon intrusions
15
,
438–9
Atlantic Celts
5–7
