![]() ![]() I did get a little lost at times when it fell to listing the markers that characterise this or that population, but for the most part Manco remembers to keep all the evidence in mind, and not simply regurgitate strings of haplogroup identifications. It’s also, to my mind, a pretty easy read. It’s quite attractively presented, too: it’s printed in colour throughout, with colours used to good effect to produce heatmaps and all sorts illustrating the density of certain genetic markers or linguistic groups. No doubt some of the details are wrong here and there, but I strongly suspect that the overall sweep of it is a good picture of how Europe was populated, and how populations interacted and lived together. The book presents tons and tons of evidence, drawing from genetic analysis, written records, archaeological remains and linguistic traces. I think Manco’s book shows that, in the end, it’s the middle road that’s the answer: sometimes there has been movement, sometimes not usually, there’s been some movement, whether of traders or invaders. ![]() There have been trends in understanding the movement of peoples that anyone dipping into the topic will know about, largely the great argument over migration and whether it’s ever really occurred or not. ![]() This is a multidisciplinary synthesis of all kinds of information about the populations of Europe and how they got here. ![]()
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