Vikings in Morocco & Africans in 9th-11thC Ireland and England: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/09/a-great-host-of-captives.html …pic.twitter.com/9xPm4qgCA4
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Interestingly, not simply one-way traffic---evidence for some Britons+British artefacts in Roman-era N Africa too:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/726122772309626880 …
Logical NorthAfriacns Numides get into the Legions Older&wiser return home for retirement (&probably the weather)
Yes, mixture of this + some British units recorded in N Africa & some units from N Africa in Britain + then in Africa again etc!
A high status, mixed-race 4thC Roman woman poss from the Med/N Africa + buried at York: http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/17041/1/M_Lewis_Bangle_Lady.pdf …pic.twitter.com/DQ8aYOJX2n
NB isotopes only show 1st gen immigrants, but Roman Britain also incl ppl of African descent who grew up here too eghttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/735761635806060544 …
Fwiw, Roman York has multiple ppl prob from N Africa, but even more ppl who are of 'black'/'mixed' ancestry (11–51%) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/10/oxygen-isotope-evidence.html …
A 10th–3rdC BC cem on Isle of Thanet, Kent, w/ multiple ppl who prob grew up in N Africa: http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/kent/ramsgate/cliffs_end …pic.twitter.com/OdbTH1bzX6
See further http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/10/oxygen-isotope-evidence.html … on this cem; 2 ppl from here (9thC + 3rdC BC) have v v high results, consistent w/ origin in Nile Valley
Poss that African ppl present as Thanet="transit centre" for trade between Med+Scandinavia: https://www.academia.edu/12497151/Rock_art_and_Metal_Trade …pic.twitter.com/shqiTc0pGf
Other poss evidence for pre-Roman contact between N. Africa/Med+Britain incl anchors & 4th-3rdC BC harbour at Poole:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/637703618725040128 …
Poole port c.300BC: 2 piers, 8m wide, paved stone surface+best parallels=Punic/Mediterranean..?(via @awhitingdorset)pic.twitter.com/fhAKAibwnv
For interest, another Roman-era migrant to Britain, 3DRIF-26 (York), probably from the Lower Nile Valley, Nubia, or further afield: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10326 …pic.twitter.com/egv2eQ6FRw
And the majority of those people would have been, from the distribution, Punic. If not Punic, Berber. Algerian/Tunisian/Lebanese DNA not POC
I assume you're primarily responding to my thread for today; if so, worth noting the figures I give from York, London and Leicester all >
> refer specifically to percentages of people in those Roman cems who are identifiable as being of probable 'Sub-Saharan' African ancestry…
And the Severan family? oh please. So Punic his sister didn't speak Latin. The Severan forum at Leptis celebrates Melqart and Shadrapa...
I didn't mention them…? I think you're either misreading me or setting up straw men, and tbh I just. can't. be. bothered. So, bye *block*
fascinating - cheers! I've done a couple of articles on my blog about African influence in Greece/Rome. This is brilliant!
Thanks! Glad you like! :)
As noted earlier, there were 2 auxiliary units from Britain in Mauretania Tingitana. I want cartoon with "typically Roman" family of Britons
There were indeed, left inscriptions and possibly small number of finds too, depending on interpretation!https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/726122772309626880 …
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