The ancient British were replaced by 90% of the genes 4,500 years ago

The people of Anatolia from the British islands 6,000 years ago have been replaced almost entirely by a new group from the Eastern European-Central Asian plateau 1,500 years later. The February 23 issue of Nature's genetic research on the ancient group of people living in the UK six millennia ago showed that up to 95% of their genes replaced by a wave of Beaker immigrants.

The oldest group in, said to be building up buildings, left only 10% of the genes in the inhabitants of the British Isles. The new population, coming from the prairie from now on Ukraine to Kazachstan, went to England 4,500 years ago and spread to almost all of the islands.

The work of the genetic research team led by Professor David Reich from Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachussetts, shows that up to 90% of the genes of ancient English were replaced within a few hundred years.

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Culture from Eastern Europe brought about 4,500 years to the British island before pottery and terracotta jars called 'beaker' with forging.(Photo: Getty).

From stoneware to bronze

Ancient Britons came from this region of Anatolia, Turkey, and brought to megalithic culture and built. Their culture is hunting and gathering.

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Stonehenge in Wiltshire is the most famous ancient architectural work of the Stone Age tribe of England.Photo: AFP).

The buildings at Stonehenge, a residential landmark in Skara Brae, Orkneys, are traces of this population. For over 1,000 years, these groups lived separately from the European continent until the Beaker group spilled over.

The Beaker, whose name comes from beaker vessels, has an external pattern that creates a culture and another way to bury dead people. The tribal chiefs were buried in the grave of high land.

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In Skara Brae, the Orkneys of Scotland also have the remains of the ancient people.(Photo: Reuters).

The group also spread throughout Europe and brought to the British islands agricultural lifestyle, though rudimentary. They created many bronze objects, cooking utensils and contained terracotta food.

They also left arrows, stone bracelets and special motifs. The Beaker started to know the craft of forging. Culture called the Beaker tradition appeared on the Iberian Peninsula about 5,000 years ago, then transmitted back to Central Europe and spread everywhere.

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A stone monument at Avebury, England, with works that people believed was erected 2,600 BC.(Photo: Getty)

Some British newspapers believe that after about 1,000 years of " Stone " Brexit , new residents from Eastern Europe have changed the entire structure of the population of the British islands.