We've found a few tidbits but nothing thorough in archae/anthro research. This is another reason why BIPOC archaeologist work is important. In no one interested in these figures? They are not just blips in history. One news article asks a historian for thoughts & the response 2/
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is that she was probably a slave. ?? There is also this reference to the remains of an African girl in Norwich around 1000. This is from Sue Niebrzydowski's article "The sultana and her sisters: black women in the British Isles before 1530." There seems to be a disconnect 3/pic.twitter.com/OQvPDiyJWn
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in the archaeo/anthro community that works in the early medieval period when it comes to these sorts of finds. It may be there is unpublished work out there on these women (& others) but perhaps we need to discuss how this is another type of erasure to suit a whitewashed 4/
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narrative. Anyway, hey archaeologist/anthropologist friends, do you know anything about this or have any leads? Bat signal out for my ppl!
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Sending out the batsignal to you all too:
@AdmiralHip@UglyShmugly@shovelingferret@FrauFry1 I think@DavidOlusoga references some instances in his book, but is there any extensive research we can draw on? 6/6#archaeotwitter#anthrotwitterShow this thread -
Addendum: I know that there's a blogpost by Dr. Caitlin Green on at least one set of remains and her work has some additional resources but we can't seem to find anything detailed or extensive.pic.twitter.com/JiPxvL4jLD
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Hi MRO and EW -- I'll email you a draft of an essay I have under review that might be helpful -- fingers crossed
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Yes please! Thank you!
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I'm actually getting very interested in trying to look at "race" concepts in medieval Ireland from your guys' work. Though I'm not sure I'm qualified nor competent enough to look into the topic.
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Well, do lots of reading before you do anything. We have the reading list we posted over the weekend. At the bottom of that it leads to an even more extensive one by Dr. Jonathan Hsy & Dr. Julie Orlemanski. There should lots of open access material too.
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