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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 3092569, member: 76086&quot;]Well, one doesnt have to look too far to explain the article.&nbsp; Up at the top, their logo states &quot;Academic Rigor, Journalistic Flair&quot;.&nbsp; In the opening paragraph:&nbsp; &quot;New research has rubbished our perception of it as a region inhabited solely by white Europeans.&quot; Who&#039;s perception?&nbsp; The authors of course and certainly not academia, which has long known that prehistoric Britons (and I use that term loosely to describe the various peoples who inhabited the island) were more closely &#039;black skinned&#039;.&nbsp; I was taught this in my Intro to Anthropology class 30 years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>Articles like these are more about getting the authors name into the spotlight and little else.&nbsp; Remember a few years ago when the two British Museum guys &#039;shocked&#039; the world when they revealed the had &#039;just discovered new coins&#039; showing that Cleopatra VII was actually ugly and not beautiful as Hollywood portrayed?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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