IIRC he talked about after the last Ice Age — seventeen thousand years ago, the people who came to live in Britian then (it being to cold for anyone else to have survived there during the ice age), those are the people who he was describing as indigenous Britons.
Which is stupid, because they were a bunch who rolled onto the island like so many have done before and after, and because with 17000 years since, everyone with any even a tiny bit of vaugely British Caucasian heritage will be slightly related to them, and no-one will have a particularly strong lineage of them.
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Date: 2009-10-25 11:13 am (UTC)Which is stupid, because they were a bunch who rolled onto the island like so many have done before and after, and because with 17000 years since, everyone with any even a tiny bit of vaugely British Caucasian heritage will be slightly related to them, and no-one will have a particularly strong lineage of them.