Cato Carthaginem delendam censuit

[sovay]

Something that makes me happy and is not Barack Obama's election: Phoenician DNA. (Though I file traceable ancient lineages under extremely cool multiculturalism, so I suppose a line between the two could be drawn.) Now I want to know who's inherited the Etruscans.

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[sovay]

I'm still on my "Lets figure out prehistoric migrations with DNA" kick, but am slowly getting into more recent times with things like this article.

There's a whole corner of the newly reorganized Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History devoted to DNA-tracking prehistoric populations; I discovered it when I was in New York City in June. It's pretty awesome.

if I could just remember the title.

Let me know if you do!

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

It was one of these two:

The Origins of the British, by Stephen Oppenheimer (http://www.amazon.com/Origins-British-Stephen-Oppenheimer/dp/1845294823/ref=pd_sim_b_6/177-3281845-8440662)

or

Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland, by Bryan Sykes (http://www.amazon.com/Saxons-Vikings-Celts-Genetic-Britain/dp/0393330753/ref=pd_sim_b_2/177-3281845-8440662).

At any rate, Oppenheimer also published an essay a couple of years back that is (as far as I can tell) an abridged version of his book:

Myths of British Ancestry (http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7817).

[sovay]

Very cool. Thanks!