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4th April 09, 05:35 PM
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 Originally Posted by Sketraw
I thinks we need to look at a bit of history here. ....After reading some of Dr.Wilsons work in the past I would not rely on the accuracy especially on DNA of any bones of that period as the Picts cremated their dead (a parctice I am sure picked up from the bronze-age Scandinavian Beaker People, who settled in the East of Scotland) and there are few if any DNA evidence in the few surviving bones there is.
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Yes, history, rather than myth and legend, much of it preserved in writing for the first time only hundreds of years after the events it purports to describe.
There was no testing of DNA contained in bones. If you read the article carefully, you will see that it was the DNA of "studies of Scots living on Islay, Lewis, Harris and Skye" that was researched.
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