Remediating Viking Origins: Genetic Code as Archival Memory of the Remote Past.
This article introduces some early data from the Leverhulme Trust-funded research programme, ‘The Impact of the Diasporas on the Making of Britain: evidence, memories, inventions’. One of the interdisciplinary foci of the programme, which incorporates insights from genetics, history, archaeology, li...
| Publicado en: | Sociology Vol. 47; no. 5; pp. 921 - 939 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Oct2013
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