However, this article goes beyond simply reconstructing her cranial features. It makes several comments regarding her race. Namely, that she exhibited both 'black' and 'white' features.pic.twitter.com/KSHaCLMsjR
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However, this article goes beyond simply reconstructing her cranial features. It makes several comments regarding her race. Namely, that she exhibited both 'black' and 'white' features.pic.twitter.com/KSHaCLMsjR
To be clear, I believe this woman is from Africa and it is important for scholars of Roman and Medieval Europe to affirm that yes, people from Africa and the Middle East and Asia travelled to Europe, settled in Europe, had children, and were a part of communities there.
We know this from the texts as well. I recall seeing an epigraph from a man likely from Syria, dedicated to his wife (also Syrian), found in northern England (may have been southern Scotland though, I can't recall).
But while the article highlights that this woman is important for showing the diversity of Roman Britain, language like this strikes me as highly defensive and does not reckon with the issues inherent within equating race with someone's skull structure.pic.twitter.com/ODUkkPUDck
I looked up some more stuff on cranial recon. I saw the three different reconstructions of Tutankhamun and I saw three different men. It seems that making any kind of conclusions from the cranial construction of this woman relating to geophysical location and race are problematic
Related to this is the Beachy Head Lady, another person who is apparently of Sub-Saharah African descent according to the wikipedia page. But no aDNA evidence has been collected.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beachy_Head_Lady …
Isotope analysis says she lived most of her life in S. Britain, but the issue here was she was identified as being Sub-Saharan African descent because of her cranial structure.
I cannot find anything on this woman past that apparently David Olusoga discusses her in his book, Black and British: a Forgotten History, but I don't have access to the book atm so if someone does and can check, I would appreciate it.
Oh, one other thing regarding the Ivory Bangle Lady. Her cranial structure was compared with African American women from the nineteenth century. This strikes me as being as problematic as comparing modern DNA with ancient DNA.pic.twitter.com/9l7REX4PZZ
They are seriously using craniometry for this?! UG! Did not realize that.
yes they are, and defending it hard.
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