In an otherwise interesting article about an archaeological discovery in Berkshire printed in the Guardian today Maev Kennedy tells us about "the Beaker Folk, new arrivals in Britain from the continent..."
This statement is so inaccurate as to be an untruth.
All we know about the Beaker Folk is that they used "beakers" that are found elsewhere in Europe. Whether the "folk" were immigrants who brought the beakers with them, or whether they were indigenous "folk" who simply imported the beakers from abroad no-one knows. Maybe we will know the truth about the Beaker Folk at some time in the future, but for the time being the evidence just isn't there.
I can understand the eagerness of the left to "prove" that everyone is an immigrant and therefore the modern occurrence of unrestricted unregulated unauthorised immigration is no big deal.
But they will not help their case by falsifying the archaeological record.
Maev Kennedy is herself an immigrant, and so presumably has a vested interest in promoting a pro-immigrant agenda.
She is the author of the Hamlyn History of Archaeology (her unproven claim today makes me question the veracity of that book, but generally it is highly thought of).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/apr/22/remains-woman-buried-discovered-windsor
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