I got Jeannette's reply to this, but she sent it privately to me, though probably by mistake. I can't assume that and post it back to the list. I dug out my copy of Saxons, Vikings, and Celts, which, like several British books on genetic anthropology, has two titles, one for Britain and one for the United States. My copy is Blood of the Isles. He does discuss hair color, in some depth. He reviews studies even older than his own; actually he reviews the history of genetic anthropology and sometimes silly attempts to classify people by physical traits into ethnic groups - over several chapters that take up different topics. Most of the chapter on skull snatchers is about hair and eye color. Now, he spends the most time on various indexes and categorization schemes that generally go from light to dark. Usually red hair is categorized with blond hair, and the only thing it is possible to get out of that is that some parts of Britain are richer in people with dark skin and hair. His map graphic of that is consistent with the fact that Neolithic migrants selectively settled the western coast of England and the eastern coast of Ireland; they sailed up from the coast of Spain, and came from the Middle East and southeastern Europe. The paleolithic people of western Europe should have been as dark; some of their descendants are American Indians, and dark skin and hair never went away in Europe. Now, the main theory he reviews argues that the indigenous Britons, Celts, and whatever were dark skinned. Of course there is no such thing as an indigenous Briton, and the Celts were immigrants. In fact, they migrated to Britain up to a few hundred years before the Saxons did, and from lands immediately south of them. He has LIGHT coloring in northern England the result of the Norman conquest, which is nonsense. Relatively few people came with the Normans, and they didn't tend to end up in northern England. He is evidently trying to tell us the Saxons and the Danes caused the light hair coloring. Dora -----Original Message----- From: Jeannette Walton Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 12:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Lanark] Saxons, Vikings, and Celts The above is the name of a book by Bryan Sykes. He is also the author of "The Seven Daughters of Eve" and "Adam's Curse". Husband has read it and tells me it is very descriptive of the origins of the various peoples who have made up the British Isles. Perhaps there is information about red heads, too. I guess I'll have to read it. This is not a commercial for this book. Has anyone else read this? Thanks, Jeannette ------------------------------- WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier message. Be sure the reply to address shows as [email protected] You may contact the List Admin at [email protected] or click on the following link to the list information page online: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com