Wow! They found DNA from a Michigan rock band? They must have been on tour, or something.
My mother always told us that Gypsies steal babies. Maybe the Anglo-Saxons stole one back, huh?
Sailors?
Romani = Gypsy
But calling it Gypsy DNA is not PC.
Romani = Gypsy
But calling it Gypsy DNA is not PC.
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I presume that by Romani is meant the people also known as gypsies. As they were nomadic traders, tinkers and horsemen I don't think that finding the gene there is so surprising. Since it is mitochondrial DNA, then it means a woman is involved, so family travel makes sense.
Some time ago I read that the Romans used troops along Hadrians Wall from far in the East, Sythians or Sogdians I think it might have been.
Has Mike Nifong charged anyone yet?
The Byzantine Empire hired English warriors as mercenaries during that period. They also hired others like Russians, leading eventually to the Orthodox religion taking root in Russia.
What? they finally linked a white guy to the Duke "rape" case?
People got around early on more than most people think. OTOH, one skeleton does not a population make.
Maybe the gene's found in other populations besides Romani. They've only been testing DNA for a couple of decades.
What are the odds that a mutation would only occur once?
There is no such thing as "Romani" - they're talking about gypsies. They have nothing to do with Rome, and it's a deliberate misassociation with "Romania". Repeat: Gypsies.
"Ancient warrior classes of India" my foot.
White men once again dig up graves in a known Church graveyard. Typical. Of course it's in the name of science, do that makes it okay.
Interesting Romani-related link...
An early instance of being left on the door step by Gypsies.
This man may be a descendant of Vikings. The Vikings penetrated far into Russia and Eastern Europe during the Dark Ages, as far as the Black Sea and Persia. One of them may have courted (or more probably, kidnapped) a fetching gypsy girl and brought her back to Denmark as his wife (or more likely, his servant and concubine). All of their offspring would have had the Romani mitochondrial DNA, and all of their female descendants would have passed it on, perhaps for centuries.
So perhaps this man was born of a Saxon father, and a woman of mixed Saxon and Danish blood who had a Gypsy great-great-grandmother. The Danes invaded much of the eastern part of England, including Norwich, in the 8th through 10th centuries. They might well have brought along some gypsy blood acquired in the 6th or 7th centuries.
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