Ancient DNA
The genetic history of Europe has mostly been reconstructed from the modern populations of Europe, assuming genetic continuity. This is because it is far easier to retrieve DNA from living subjects than ancient human remains. However, a small number of ancient mtDNA and Y-DNA analyses are available from both the historical and prehistoric periods.
Read more about this topic: Genetic History Of Europe, Genetic Studies After Cavalli-Sforza
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“If I can catch him once upon the hip,
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Here [in London, history] ... seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire.”
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