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Authors: Oppenheimer
lack of celtic/Latin
12
,
324–5
,
338
Norse theory
349–50
seen as Germanic
340
Old Irish
98
Ordovices
69
Orkney Islands
253
,
258
,
455–6
,
459–61
,
481
Oscan dialect
89
Otte, Marcel
297
oxygen isotope analysis
268
Page, Raymond Ian
369
,
371
,
376
,
377
Palaeolithic
55
see also
Late Upper Palaeolithic; Middle Upper Palaeolithic; Upper Palaeolithic
Palearctic Biome
154
Papaver segiterum
203
Parisii (England/Gaul)
13
,
77–8
,
78
Parsons, David
326–7
Parthenius of Apamea
44
personal names
after Norman conquest
464–6
of Belgae
313
as celtic evidence
314–15
English surname types
464–6
Peterborough Ware
270
phenetic analysis
92
phylogeographic approach
417
,
428–9
,
443
,
449
physical appearance
Strabo on populations in England
11
,
311
Tacitus on Britons
11–12
,
311–12
Picts
217
place-names
Belgic evidence
482
celtic roots
320–3
in Domesday Book
464
inability to date
328–9
as language evidence
314
Viking
451
as ‘wipe-out’ evidence
10–11
plants
200
Pleistocene
154
Pliny the Elder
343
plough
255
poppy
203
population
463
post-Swiderian cultures
178
pottery
6
,
16
,
41
,
103–4
,
111
,
200–4
,
215
,
227–8
,
247
,
255
,
258–60
,
473
precious metals
273
Principal Components Analysis
270
,
284–90
,
297
,
414–6
processual archaeology
56
Procopius of Caesarea
15
,
378–9
,
422
,
441
Proto-Germanic
298
Proto-Italic
298
Pryor, Francis
359–62
,
363–4
,
402
,
478
,
480
Ptolemy, Claudius
on Brigantes
76
Carvetii omission
75
on Ireland
86
on Saxons
388
Punic pottery
41
Pyrene
32
Q-celtic
88–90
racial migrationism
113
‘racial packages’
112
Rankin, David
35
,
36
,
45–6
,
49–50
,
86
,
101
regional identity
244–5
Renfrew, Colin
7
,
17
,
64–5
,
84
,
99
,
111
,
285–9
,
291
,
301
Richards, Julian
455
Richards, Martin
122
,
164
,
212–13
,
218
,
219
,
228
,
476
Ringe, Don
293
Rivet, Leo
324
Rob R1b-8 cluster (Y)
172–3
,
197–9
,
456
Roman Britain
celtic (Brythonic?) in
311
likely British types in
12–15
Roman England
celtic languages in
482
general languages in
69–70
,
72
,
80
,
324
,
474
place-names in
325–8
Rootsi, Siiri
189
Rory R1b-14 cluster (Y)
135
,
144–5
,
221–2
Rostov R1a1 gene group (Y)
137
,
139
,
183–7
,
195
,
263–4
,
296
,
455–6
Rox R1b-9 gene group (Y)
141
,
143–4
,
166–7
Ruisko R1b gene group (Y)
133
,
137
,
139–40
,
143
,
149–50
,
165
,
169
,
183
,
246
,
270
,
457
,
459
,
460–1
runic script
distribution of
370
,
371
,
381
,
382
inscriptions
335
orthography vs location
374–6
Scandinavian roots
369
,
371
,
376–7
Ruslan R gene group (Y)
133
,
183
Ruy R1b-10 gene group (Y)
141
,
142
,
165–6
Saxon shore
359–63
,
376
,
439–40
,
448
,
451
,
480
Saxons
cruciform brooch void
381
evidence of kingdoms
373
Gildas on
305–6
homeland of
373
Norse language theory
349–50
in Roman Britain
357–69
,
376
,
480
term used loosely
388
Scandinavia
Balkan Y-chromosome input
195–6
Franco-Spanish mtDNA input
179
Iberian mtDNA input
195
king list convergence
385
longboats
445–6
ship burials
394–6
two-source Mesolithic colonization
178
Y-chromosome input
179–83
during Younger Dryas
177–8
Scotland