The Saxons were a Germanic people. Germans, Celts and Romans all belonged to a larger ethno-linguistic group called "Indo-European."
The Picts appear to have been a non-Indo-European people who arrived in Western Europe during The Bronze Age (c. 5,000 - 3,000 B.C.). Their closest relatives in Europe were probably the Silurians in Wales, the Basques, Iberians and Aquitanians of northern Spain and western Gaul and the Rhaeto-Etruscan peoples of Switzerland and northern Italy. They would have looked different from the the Celts and Anglo-Saxons in physical appearance, with darker hair and complexions.
However, there are only a few vague references by Ancient Roman writers to the dark complexions of the Picts and Silurians. The Romans were fascinated by the way the Picts painted and tattooed themselves and commented more on these things instead.
2007-03-22 19:26:46
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answered by Brennus 6
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I often get comments about my pointy ears. I understand that this is a throwback trait to the picts, who were little people with pointy ears who dwelt in the forests and are likely the origin of stories about elves.
But for the most part they did not interbreed with the Angles or the Saxons when they arrived. Instead they lived seperately and eventually for the most part died out.
The Anglo-Saxons are still the basic stock of the people living in Britain; the Normans did conquer them and take over the country 1000 years ago and changed the language and interbred with the local population, but they did not arrive in sufficient numbers to seriously dilute the Anglo-Saxon bloodlines.
The Celts were progenitors of a lot of populations in Western Europe, including Angles, Saxons, Normans, and maybe even Picts. Their bloodlines were diluted through many other interceding polulations along the way; everything from Romans to Slavs, but you'd be hard pressed to find any person of European descent who doesn't have any Celtic blood. So for the most part they probably looked much like modern populations. They ate a similar diet too, with lots of fruits and vegetables, cheese and dairy, and meat. So developmentally they were about the same size, general overall health, and with about the same teeth as you now see in germany, England, France, and North America.
Later medieval Europeans got a bit smaller because their nutrition took a backwards step.
2007-03-22 18:07:07
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answered by Anonymous
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Nobody is aware of the entire solutions. However as Will and Ariel Durant say someplace of their booklet "The Lessons of History" so much colonization is selective. The English who settled in New England, they are saying, weren't consultant of the whole English populace. You can lengthen this analogy to any sort of colonization. For illustration, Iceland used to be settled by means of each Norwegian and Swedish Vikings. They additionally introduced a few Lapps, Irish and Hebridean Scots alongside as slaves too (and perhaps even an Anglo-Saxon or Frenchman or 2). Yet, in all instances those settlers most effective represented distinctive segments of the Irish, Scots and Scandinavian populations. So just a pick quantity and sort of genes have been announced into Iceland from those nations. Thus, in these days you are going to see a few Swedes and Norwegians who seem just like the traditional Icelander even as you are going to see different Swedes and Norwegians whose bodily sort is not represented in Iceland in any respect. Geography has a few affect in shaping individuals bodily, culturally and psychologically too however we nonetheless have no idea absolutely in what approaches. Ethnographers and anthropologists have spotted this primarily within the Jews due to the fact they've lived in lots of special nations around the globe for the period of their historical past. Consequently, Jews in New York seem quite special from Yemeni Jews in southern Arabia or Central Asian Jews in Samarkand and feature an excessively special cultures too. Here in America, individuals from New York City, Texas and California have a tendency to face out even to Americans in different states like myself. We can mainly spot a person who grew up in those areas irrespective of whether or not they're white or black, Jewish or Gentile, English, Irish, Scandinavian, German or Italian in historical past. They are precise areas that depart an indelible mark on any person who has lived in them for many years.
2016-09-05 12:46:29
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answered by rosebeckjr 4
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They all looked more or less the same.
DNA research has debunked the tales the other answerers repeat about huge waves of population. In fact they were relatively small war-bands or ruling classes; the indigenous population of the British Isles has been fairly stable since before the Celtic influx, and has most similarities with the Basques.
2007-03-22 20:46:16
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answered by Anonymous
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I think that they were somewhat different. They spoke different languages.
2007-03-22 18:03:03
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answered by Susan M 7
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