this should be interesting maybe they are based
on the remains from the future british paper
ISOTOPIC AND GENETIC EXPLORATIONS OF CROSS-CHANNEL CONNECTIVITY IN BRONZE AGE AND IRON AGE KENT
Madeleine Bleasdale1, Claire-Elise Fischer1, Lindsey Büster1, Jane Evans2, JacquelineMcKinley3, David Reich4, Ian Armit11 University of York, UK2 National Environmental Isotope Facility, British Geological Survey, UK3 Wessex Archaeology, UK4 Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, USA
Persistent long-distance networks of connectivity between Britain and the Continent have been evidenced archaeologically through shared aspects of material culture.
During the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, cross-channel exchanges resulted in the formation of abroad, common cultural entity on both sides of the Channel: the “Manche—Mer du Nord(MMN) complex”. Such interactions persisted during the Iron Age, becoming more visible in the Late Iron Age, when new continental imports (e.g. Mediterranean pottery) reached southern Britain. Lastly, as the Roman provinces expanded, textual sources frequently evoke resources originating from northwestern France and southern Britain.
Existing sources demonstrate that, rather than being a barrier, the channel was adynamic maritime axis during the Bronze and Iron Age. Nevertheless, reconstructing the nature of cross-channel interactions remains challenging. In recent years, aDNA has confirmed movements between the Continent and Britain (Fischer et al., 2018), and strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and oxygen (ẟ18O) isotope measurements of tooth enamel have identified potential migrants in southern Britain (McKinley et al., 2014).
This paper synthesizes existing and new multi proxy data at a regional-scale, focusing on sites from Kent, including Margetts Pit and Cliffs End Farm.
Given its proximity to the Channel, Kent is an important locale for exploring cross-channel connections. Indeed,several individuals from Cliffs End Farm have already yielded isotope measurements demonstrating they spent their childhood outside of Britain. New aDNA analysis targeting individuals from Cliffs End Farm and elsewhere has now identified the continent, and perhaps France as a potential point of origin for incoming individuals.The revaluation of pre-existing data, combined with new analysis demonstrate that Kent was an important crossroads between continental Europe and Britain throughout the Bronze and the Iron Ages. Our study also highlights the strength of multi-proxy approaches for reconstructing the timing and tempo of mobility, and individual life histories.
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