1988
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Guy Auboire, « Etude comparative de populations gallo-romaines et mérovingiennes en Ile-de-France et Normandie », Revue Archéologique de l'Ouest (documents), ID : 10.3406/rao.1988.923
Thanks to nine samples from ancient populations (three from the Gallo-Roman period and six from the merovingian one), the origins of which are Lower-Normandy and Ile-de-France, and thanks to an Irish pre-roman group totalling 417 masculine subjects, we are trying to put into light morphological ressemblances bet- ween thèse populations, with the help of the theory of generalized distances by Mahalanobis and Rao, modified by Pineau. The calculations, confirmed by an upward hierarchical classification and by an analysis of the main composing items, are made from cranial and post-cranial variables. They set out and confirm the continuity of the peopling between thèse two periods. Nevertheless, two groups draw attention to the little distance observed with the Irish : Réville in Cotentin and the series of french Vexin. This study could well be the starting point of historical and archaelogical research which could allow to check whether in the pre-christian era or later, a few groups of Irish extraction have been able to colonize the coasts of the Channel in our country, after having travelled through Great Britain.