Find it fascinating that c.20% of ppl in post-Roman cemeteries in S Wales seem to have grown up in N Africa...Bizarrely, seems much easier >
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> to identify ppl involved in this largely unrecorded migration to western Britain than is to id definite Anglo-Saxon migrants in the east!
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In any case, evidence of N African migrants in post-Roman Wales suggests Byzantine trade w/ W Britain even more signif than usually thought!
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For those interested, the paper on early medieval migration between Wales & the Mediterranean is available here :) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544031300023X …
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For fun, 2 refs comparing the difficult name Gildas to Late Roman N. African name Gildo ;) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=q2U3i1X8B50C&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24#v=onepage&q&f=false … &https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=k9Rjq8EnQ44C&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false …
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Also intriguing that 3 or 4 ppl buried in 11-9thC BC cem in Kent prob grew up in N Africa: http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/kent/ramsgate/cliffs_end … >pic.twitter.com/yIEKD1jKmD
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> Oxygen isotope results of 1 person so high that origin in 11-9thC BC Nile Valley credible...! Brings to mind this?https://www.academia.edu/10159599/Between_Egypt_Mesopotamia_and_Scandinavia_Late_Bronze_Age_glass_beads_found_in_Denmark …
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@caitlinrgreen They're been looking for tin, perhaps. A german novel suggested it. :-) http://www.amazon.de/Bronzeh%C3%A4ndler-Hanns-Kneifel-ebook/dp/B006FOT4MA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1445769251&sr=8-1&keywords=hanns+kneifel+bronzeh%C3%A4ndler … -
@AndreGottwald Def one possibility! :)
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'A Lady of York: migration, ethnicity and identity in Roman Britain'--available online here: http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/17041/1/M_Lewis_Bangle_Lady.pdf …pic.twitter.com/myl9b3bJ9a
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Another paper on Roman York w/ craniometric analysis--suggests considerable diversity, esp in higher-status cem: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.21104/abstract …
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@caitlinrgreen how are you Dr Caitlin? Everything fine on your side?? A massive earthquake just ended here :( -
@Umarkarim89 Oh, heck :( Thoughts & prayers for all affected & hope you're ok -
@caitlinrgreen yeah till now reports suggest of not extensive damages bt deaths hv bn reported we went outside and even our gate was jolting -
@Umarkarim89 Sounds frightening :( -
@caitlinrgreen yeah it was indeed anyways my sister visited the city of bath and Stonehenge and it was wonderful with Sheep grazing there :)
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At Roman Gloucester, 28-33% of those tested had oxygen isotope results suggestive of origins in S. Iberia/N. Africa: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440309003288 …
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@caitlinrgreen In other words, how does science know that the isotopes found in bone were present when the person was alive? -
@STORI3D_PAST Derives from dental enamel which is largely resistant to diagenetic change & recent meta-analyses support this, w/ ranges > -
@STORI3D_PAST > from teeth showing good link to levels in environmental water :) -
@caitlinrgreen Brilliant! Still amazes me how much migration there was, esp given that even today many never travel over 50 miles from home. -
@STORI3D_PAST 2012 meta-analysis indicates c.4% of those tested so far from Britain have values poss indicative of long-distance movement..! -
@STORI3D_PAST (that's only those results indicative of a southern/warmer origin; yet more suggest northern/eastern/colder origin than UK!)
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