Where did the early English come from?
Paper: The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool
Gretzinger et al. · Nature 2022 · doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05247-2
What the trailer says
Where did the early English come from? Scientists read ancient DNA from 460 medieval northwestern Europeans. In Iron Age England, about 1% of ancestry came from across the North Sea. Among the early medieval people sampled in England, it averaged 76% That ancestry closely matches people from Germany and Denmark, and was strongest in eastern England. Together, it points to large-scale migration, though ancestry varied a lot from place to place.