Hi everyone
I already posted this somewhere else but this might be the better place for this. I recently stumbled over this article:One-million-Brits-descended-from-Romans on the site telegraph. (sadly i cant post post the link)
which suggests that at leas 1 million british men have a roman Y-dna. Now if you look at the population of england today (53 million) isnt that quite a lot? doesnt that mean that, if we assume every family, no matter if roman or native, had the same amount of children on average the last 1000 years that at least every fiftieth briton women back then who had children during roman occupation had them with a roman? Or is it at least every 25th if we assume that only half of the population is male? And if we consider the big immigration of germanic saxons and angles the number could in reality be even higher because some roman Ys were replaced by germanic ones?
I also wonder how it looks in todays france. does anyone know of studies in france?
I already posted this somewhere else but this might be the better place for this. I recently stumbled over this article:One-million-Brits-descended-from-Romans on the site telegraph. (sadly i cant post post the link)
which suggests that at leas 1 million british men have a roman Y-dna. Now if you look at the population of england today (53 million) isnt that quite a lot? doesnt that mean that, if we assume every family, no matter if roman or native, had the same amount of children on average the last 1000 years that at least every fiftieth briton women back then who had children during roman occupation had them with a roman? Or is it at least every 25th if we assume that only half of the population is male? And if we consider the big immigration of germanic saxons and angles the number could in reality be even higher because some roman Ys were replaced by germanic ones?
I also wonder how it looks in todays france. does anyone know of studies in france?