Æthelweardus redivivus

The tenth-century Chronicon Æthelweardi has usually been treated as nothing more than a Latin translation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. This article reinterprets it by postulating the chronicle's originality and its author's careful consideration of its composition. Both the content and the form of the Chronicon Æthelweardi are here discussed from several points of view: the question of the coming of the Anglo-Saxons to Britain; the ideological and narrative consequences of the book division and the use of time; and Æthelweard's use of genealogy.     

Evidence of biological differences between early British populations from neolithic to medieval times,as revealed by eleven commonly available cranial vault measurements

A series of 11 commonly occurring skull measurements for 53 early British samples were considered. These had dates extending from Neolithic to Medieval times. It is shown, by a multivariate analysis of this data, that even a restricted number of cranial dimensions can still show considerable morphological divergence in these earlier populations. Also, it seems clear from the data employed that some geographical variation may well occur in physique during some culture phases.