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Liminal Fiction Aug 7, 2023

WRITER FUEL A new look at eight skeletons from two Pictish cemeteries in Scotland reveals that the enigmatic Picts weren't from afar, as medieval historians suggested, but that they had local roots.

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Writer Fuel: Who Were the Picts?

Ancient DNA reveals that the Picts, the "painted people" of Scotland who fought off the Romans, weren't an enigmatic group that migrated from faraway lands. Instead, the Picts had local roots and were related to other Iron Age people in Britain, a new study finds. An analysis of eight skeletons from two Pictish cemeteries, published...

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