[Stones] Anglo-Saxon apartheid

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An interesting snippet of news on the radio this morning suggests that -

"Foreign invaders of early Britain established a kind of apartheid society based on a 'racially segregated master-servant relationship'... Scientists believe that a small population of migrants from Germany, Holland and Denmark established a segregated society when they arrived in England from the 5th century. The researchers believe they have found evidence that the incoming population changed the local gene pool by using their economic advantage to out-breed the native population.
The Anglo-Saxon genetic dominance has puzzled experts because some archaeological and historical evidence points to only a relatively small number of Anglo-Saxon migrants. Estimates range between 10,000 and 200,000 Anglo-Saxons migrating into England between the 5th and 7th Century AD, compared with a native population of about two million. 'The native Britons were genetically and culturally absorbed by the Anglo-Saxons over a period of as little as a few hundred years..."*

Can't help wondering how much the Anglo-Saxons were influenced by the native peoples during those few hundred years... :-)

* Full text at http://science.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1182239.php/New_research_points_to_apartheid_in_early_Britain
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