Evidence for an apartheid-like social structure in early Anglo-Saxon England

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1601, 2006, Pages 2651-2657

  Thomas, Mark G ^a   Stumpf, Michael P H ^b   Härke, Heinrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Ethnicity; Migration; Population; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

APARTHEID; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CHROMOSOME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETHNICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTORICAL RECORD; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MARRIAGE; MIGRATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MIGRATION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; UNITED KINGDOM; Y CHROMOSOME;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33750029349     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3627     Document Type: Article

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