Free public lecture in Preston will reveal the 'Love Island' nature of English medieval history as shown by UCLan discoveries
UCLan and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology recently led the largest ever early medieval population study, which revealed a host of individual and family stories, after experts analysed DNA from more than 460 skeletons across 37 archaeological sites. These results were published in Nature and a special issue of Current Archaeology last month.
Using next generation genetic sequencing, the study provides unprecedented insight about migration, tradition, and loss in England’s early medieval families, impossible to see before. The analysis found that about 76 per cent of the ancestry in early medieval English populations originated from what is today northern Germany and southern Scandinavia, providing strong evidence for mass migration into the British Isles after the end of Roman occupation, and all the cultural changes that followed.
One of the most striking individual stories from the study is that of a young girl buried in early 7th-century Kent, dubbed 'Updown Girl'. She was buried in much the same way as the other early medieval individuals laid to rest at Updown, however new genetic research highlights that her ancestry was very different.33 per cent of Updown Girl’s DNA points to West African ancestry, where as two sisters found buried close by had predominantly continental Northern European ancestry.
Current Archaeology's editor Carly Hilts said: “The exciting thing about this study is how it brings long-forgotten human stories to life, revealing otherwise invisible family relationships and intrepid journeys made centuries ago, and shedding light on questions of migration, integration, and how burial customs varied.
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