(geographically) will you find the oldest English bloodlines.
2007-01-24 20:02:26 · 12 answers · asked by Kennpark 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
i agree with above
2007-01-24 20:08:03 · answer #1 · answered by jaison_healer18 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you accept that at one time all of the earth's landmass was interconnected (I think it was called Gonwandaland or something similar) and that at that time man started to migrate from the part of G'land that is now Africa (where it is also generally accepted that we all came from) then the oldest bloodlines would originate from where what is now England was connected to G'land at that time i.e. the south coast.
This is the nearest you'll get on the grand scheme of things and is only accurate enough to say it definitely wouldn't be on the north coast because they didn't have boats to sail there.
2007-01-25 07:40:57 · answer #2 · answered by Sam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would imagine it was all over the UK.
Some while ago the TV programme 'The Time Team' did an excavation in a cave in the Cheddar gorge.
They did a DNA on a piece of human bone found in the cave and then did a test of all the people at the local school.
It turned out that one of the teachers there had an iron age ancestor that lived in the Gorge!
With regard to the avove answers I suppose that with the 'out of africa' theory we are all decended from just a handful of peole anyway so thye are correct.
2007-01-25 04:09:45 · answer #3 · answered by south_cheshire_cat 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you think of England even since Roman times it has been settled by several different peoples and so the chances that there is anyone whose genetic ancestry is completely unaffected by any of these colonisations must be pretty rare.
However, a general rule for looking for populations that might have been less affected by successive waves of colonisations is to look for places that are even today fairly isolated - rural areas away from the coast - parts of Exmoor or some parts of East Anglia for example might fit the bill - but the genetic ancestry of the two might be quite different.
2007-01-25 06:57:31 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm puzzled by this question. What's a bloodline? Everyone in England, and everyone else in the world, is descended in a continuous line from the first human.
2007-01-25 04:12:02 · answer #5 · answered by Gnomon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean by the oldest bloodlines?
Surely we all form part of the oldest bloodlines? Our ancesters all go back the same distance in time, don't they?
2007-01-25 04:07:04 · answer #6 · answered by Boofie 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Bury Park, Luton
2007-01-25 09:07:20 · answer #7 · answered by Chunky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Somerset has one of the oldest skeletons found in UK (Cheddar), there are people around that share the same DNA, it's documented on the net somewhere.
2007-01-25 04:15:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean by ''English''? We are a mixture of many races - Norman, Roman, Saxon, Celtic, Viking, Dane, and so on. No one is really sure just what type of people the 'originals' were.
2007-01-25 04:13:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
listen to boofie
2007-01-25 08:50:06 · answer #10 · answered by sky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋