Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest highlights the impact of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings on the island’s ancestry ...

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Anthony Chappel-Ross/York Museums Trust. Late in 2021, a metal detectorist named Peter Heads swept his device across an unass ...

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