![]() ![]() The concept of migration in prehistory, so long out of favour, is back on the agenda. It will be essential reading for the growing number of people who want to trace their ancestry through DNA and understand what the results mean. Unprecedented in the scope of its research, this paradigm-shifting, highly readable book challenges our established ways of looking at Europe’s past and its people. Mallory, author of ‘The Origins of the Irish’ In tackling so many areas of current controversy this will undoubtedly provide a base line for future debates on the origins of the Europeans’ – J. ‘An ambitious and lucid full narrative account of the peopling of Europe from the perspectives of archaeology, language and genetics. ![]() Jean Manco is an admirable and reliable guide in this fascinating, yet constantly shifting, terrain’ – David Miles, former Chief Archaeologist, English Heritage ‘Genetics is blazing new pathways through the tangled jungle of the human past. Jean Manco, Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings, Thames & Hudson, ISBN 9780500051788, 312 pp., 124 ill. ![]()
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