{"id":490255,"date":"2022-09-04T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bodies-in-uk-well-killed-in-mediaeval-anti-semitic-massacre-study\/"},"modified":"2022-09-04T16:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T13:30:01","slug":"bodies-in-uk-well-killed-in-mediaeval-anti-semitic-massacre-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bodies-in-uk-well-killed-in-mediaeval-anti-semitic-massacre-study\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bodies in UK well killed in mediaeval anti-Semitic massacre: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3b39dcb01b6\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3b39dcb01b6\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bodies-in-uk-well-killed-in-mediaeval-anti-semitic-massacre-study\/#%E2%80%9CBodies_in_UK_well_killed_in_mediaeval_anti-Semitic_massacre_study%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Bodies in UK well killed in mediaeval anti-Semitic massacre: study&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CBodies_in_UK_well_killed_in_mediaeval_anti-Semitic_massacre_study%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Bodies in UK well killed in mediaeval anti-Semitic massacre: study&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/medieval-mass-burial-s.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/medieval-mass-burial-s.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Based on the skeletal remains, scientists reconstructed the face of a male adult (left) and a child (right). Credit: Professor Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores University\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/medieval-mass-burial-s.jpg\" alt=\"Medieval mass burial shows centuries-earlier origin of Ashkenazi genetic bottleneck\" title=\"Based on the skeletal remains, scientists reconstructed the face of a male adult (left) and a child (right). Credit: Professor Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores University\" width=\"800\" height=\"478\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Based on the skeletal remains, scientists reconstructed the face of a male adult (left) and a child (right). Credit: Professor Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores University<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Seventeen bodies found at the bottom of a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>eval English well were likely Jews who were murdered in an anti-Semitic massacre more than 800 years ago, scientists have revealed.<\/p>\n<section class=\"article-banner first-banner ads-336x280\">\n         <!-- \/4988204\/Phys_Story_InText_Box --><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>The massacre took place in 1190 AD in the eastern city of Norwich, where just decades prior the seeds had been planted for an &#8220;anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that persists up to the present day,&#8221; they said in a new study.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists used an array of techniques\u2014including analysing the oldest known Jewish genomes\u2014to unravel the mystery.<\/p>\n<p>It began when construction workers were digging up land for a future shopping centre in Norwich in 2004. They stumbled upon the remains of at least 17 people\u2014six adults and 11 children, including three sisters\u2014in the old well. <\/p>\n<p>The bodies were buried at strange angles, some head-first, suggesting the possibility of violent death.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Barnes, a geneticist at London&#8217;s Natural History Museum, first started looking into the remains while working on the BBC documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> &#8220;History Cold Case&#8221; in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We first thought it more likely that they were the victims of some sort of plague, epidemic, famine, something like that,&#8221; Barnes, one of the authors of the study published in the journal <i>Current Biology<\/i> this week, told AFP. <\/p>\n<p>Using radiocarbon dating, the team narrowed down the date of the deaths to between 1161-1216 AD.<\/p>\n<p><b>Population bottleneck<\/b><\/p>\n<p>DNA analysis of six of the victims found they were predisposed to certain genetic diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Computer simulations then showed that the frequency of these diseases was roughly the same for the Norwich victims as for modern Ashkenazi Jews, indicating a common ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>This would make them the oldest Jewish genomes ever analysed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody had analysed Jewish ancient DNA before because of prohibitions on the disturbance of Jewish graves,&#8221; Barnes said. &#8220;However, we did not know this until after doing the genetic analyses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It also sheds light on a known historical event when the number of Ashkenazi Jews suddenly dwindled\u2014called a population bottleneck\u2014which causes such genetic variants to occur.<\/p>\n<p>The bottleneck was previously believed to have taken place up between 500 to 800 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But Mark Thomas, a study co-author and geneticist at University College London, told AFP the new research &#8220;strongly suggests&#8221; that the bottleneck must have predated the Norwich victims, meaning it could have occurred hundreds of years earlier than thought.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8216;Conspiracy theory persists&#8217;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The scientists also found indications that a young boy in the well had blues eyes and red hair\u2014anti-Semitic stereotypes at the time often involved red hair.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we did more and more analysis,&#8221; Barnes said, &#8220;everything just kept getting more and more convincing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Their analysis pointed to a single event\u2014violence during anti-Semitic riots recorded in Norwich on February 6, 1190 AD.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes said that &#8220;anti-Semitic feelings were riding high because plans were in place to conduct the Third Crusade&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And less than 50 years earlier, a local boy had been brutally murdered in an event that cast a long shadow. The family of the boy, who was later dubbed William of Norwich, blamed his murder on local Jews. <\/p>\n<p>It became the first known version of the anti-Semitic &#8220;blood libel&#8221; myth, in which Jews are falsely accused of killing Christian boys to use their blood in rituals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This antisemitic conspiracy theory persists today, its origins lie within the soil of Norwich,&#8221; tweeted Adam Rutherford, a geneticist at University College London.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bodies in the well present a unique opportunity to assess the roots of this contemporary racism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none\">\n<p>                                            Medieval mass burial shows centuries-earlier origin of Ashkenazi genetic bottleneck\n                                        <\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"mb-4\"\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__more p-4\">\n                                                                                                <strong>More information:<\/strong><br \/>\n                                                Mark Thomas, Genomes from a medieval mass burial show Ashkenazi-associated hereditary diseases pre-date the 12th century, <i>Current Biology<\/i> (2022).  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-doi=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cub.2022.08.036\">DOI: 10.1016\/j.cub.2022.08.036<\/a>. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/fulltext\/S0960-9822(22)01355-0\">www.cell.com\/current-biology\/f \u2026 0960-9822(22)01355-0<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                \u00a9 2022 AFP<\/p>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>                                                 <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                 Bodies in UK well killed in mediaeval anti-Semitic massacre: study (2022, September  4)<br \/>\n                                                 retrieved  4 September 2022<br \/>\n                                                 from https:\/\/phys.org\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\/2022-09-bodies-uk-mediaeval-anti-semitic-massacre.html<\/p>\n<p>                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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