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"Two unrelated young people buried in cemeteries in England in the Early Middle Ages probably had grandparents from West Africa..the discovery implies that migrants in Anglo-Saxon times were coming from much further afield than previously thought"
www.newscientist.com/article/2492...
newscientist.com
DNA analysis reveals West African ancestry in early medieval England
An unrelated pair of people buried in cemeteries in 7th-century Britain probably had grandparents from West Africa