Skip to content
By using Twitter’s services you agree to our Cookies Use. We and our partners operate globally and use cookies, including for analytics, personalisation, and ads.
  • Home Home Home, current page.
  • Moments Moments Moments, current page.

Saved searches

  • Remove
  • In this conversation
    Verified accountProtected Tweets @
Suggested users
  • Verified accountProtected Tweets @
  • Verified accountProtected Tweets @
  • Language: English
    • Bahasa Indonesia
    • Bahasa Melayu
    • Català
    • Čeština
    • Dansk
    • Deutsch
    • English UK
    • Español
    • Filipino
    • Français
    • Hrvatski
    • Italiano
    • Magyar
    • Nederlands
    • Norsk
    • Polski
    • Português
    • Română
    • Slovenčina
    • Suomi
    • Svenska
    • Tiếng Việt
    • Türkçe
    • Ελληνικά
    • Български език
    • Русский
    • Српски
    • Українська мова
    • עִבְרִית
    • العربية
    • فارسی
    • मराठी
    • हिन्दी
    • বাংলা
    • ગુજરાતી
    • தமிழ்
    • ಕನ್ನಡ
    • ภาษาไทย
    • 한국어
    • 日本語
    • 简体中文
    • 繁體中文
  • Have an account? Log in
    Have an account?
    · Forgot password?

    New to Twitter?
    Sign up
caitlinrgreen's profile
Dr Caitlin Green
Dr Caitlin Green
Dr Caitlin Green
@caitlinrgreen

Tweets

Dr Caitlin Green

@caitlinrgreen

History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.

Cornwall/Lincolnshire
caitlingreen.org
Joined August 2014

Tweets

  • © 2018 Twitter
  • About
  • Help Center
  • Terms
  • Privacy policy
  • Cookies
  • Ads info
Dismiss
Previous
Next

Go to a person's profile

Saved searches

  • Remove
  • In this conversation
    Verified accountProtected Tweets @
Suggested users
  • Verified accountProtected Tweets @
  • Verified accountProtected Tweets @

Promote this Tweet

Block

  • Tweet with a location

    You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more

    Your lists

    Create a new list


    Under 100 characters, optional

    Privacy

    Copy link to Tweet

    Embed this Tweet

    Embed this Video

    Add this Tweet to your website by copying the code below. Learn more

    Add this video to your website by copying the code below. Learn more

    Hmm, there was a problem reaching the server.

    By embedding Twitter content in your website or app, you are agreeing to the Twitter Developer Agreement and Developer Policy.

    Preview

    Why you're seeing this ad

    Log in to Twitter

    · Forgot password?
    Don't have an account? Sign up »

    Sign up for Twitter

    Not on Twitter? Sign up, tune into the things you care about, and get updates as they happen.

    Sign up
    Have an account? Log in »

    Two-way (sending and receiving) short codes:

    Country Code For customers of
    United States 40404 (any)
    Canada 21212 (any)
    United Kingdom 86444 Vodafone, Orange, 3, O2
    Brazil 40404 Nextel, TIM
    Haiti 40404 Digicel, Voila
    Ireland 51210 Vodafone, O2
    India 53000 Bharti Airtel, Videocon, Reliance
    Indonesia 89887 AXIS, 3, Telkomsel, Indosat, XL Axiata
    Italy 4880804 Wind
    3424486444 Vodafone
    » See SMS short codes for other countries

    Confirmation

     

    Welcome home!

    This timeline is where you’ll spend most of your time, getting instant updates about what matters to you.

    Tweets not working for you?

    Hover over the profile pic and click the Following button to unfollow any account.

    Say a lot with a little

    When you see a Tweet you love, tap the heart — it lets the person who wrote it know you shared the love.

    Spread the word

    The fastest way to share someone else’s Tweet with your followers is with a Retweet. Tap the icon to send it instantly.

    Join the conversation

    Add your thoughts about any Tweet with a Reply. Find a topic you’re passionate about, and jump right in.

    Learn the latest

    Get instant insight into what people are talking about now.

    Get more of what you love

    Follow more accounts to get instant updates about topics you care about.

    Find what's happening

    See the latest conversations about any topic instantly.

    Never miss a Moment

    Catch up instantly on the best stories happening as they unfold.

    1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 16 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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

      6 replies 112 retweets 136 likes
    2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Post mentions 3 poss burials of African women in 9th-11thC England, incl N. Elmham burial discussed here: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1311/1/1311.pdf  pp.224-6

      1 reply 31 retweets 44 likes
    3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Another African woman, aged 18-24, was found at Fairford, Gloucestershire, in 2013—radiocarbon dated to AD 896–1025:http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/10688142.Schoolboys_amazed_that_skeleton_is_1_000_year_old_African_woman/ …

      8 replies 102 retweets 81 likes
    4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 18 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Hadrian, the L7-E8thC Abbot of St Augustine's,Canterbury, was 'a man of African race' (Bede) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=egy-k7LV-e4C&lpg=PA170&pg=PA170#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/ze0xufAot7

      6 replies 122 retweets 117 likes
    5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 18 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

      In this context, worth noting that multiple ppl buried at 7th-9thC Bamburgh may well have African origin too... Seehttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/657981747154522112 …

      Dr Caitlin Green added,

      Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
      Some oxygen isotope evidence for Africans in Britain, c. 1100 BC–AD 800---new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/10/oxygen-isotope-evidence.html … pic.twitter.com/fUiIFCbj9r
      1 reply 57 retweets 61 likes
    6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 18 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Similarly, 2 people in the 7thC monastic cemetery at Ely may well have grown up in N Africa http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6135608&fileId=S0003581509990102 …pic.twitter.com/xWbw7AZUOm

      6 replies 41 retweets 73 likes
    7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 19 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Isotope evidence for poss movement between South Wales & Byzantine N. Africa in the 5th-7thC http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544031300023X …pic.twitter.com/jmcswBsf2Q

      9 replies 98 retweets 115 likes
    8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 19 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      A woman in the 4th-7thC cem at Balladoole, Isle of Man, may similarly have N.African origins http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440314003185 …pic.twitter.com/hlvEjP2NmF

      2 replies 38 retweets 41 likes
    9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 20 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

      Period with highest proportion of sites w/ prob evidence for people from N.Africa is, of course, the Roman era e.g.https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/744286383771127808 …

      Dr Caitlin Green added,

      Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen
      Interesting paper on 2 cemeteries from Roman York suggesting considerable diversity then: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.21104/abstract … pic.twitter.com/Qd3QpZXHKZ
      1 reply 33 retweets 41 likes
    10. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 20 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      A nice overview by Hella Eckardt---'Seeing Black: Africans in Roman Britain' (2014): https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dIgbBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA63&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/ZLMQ487s6D

      5 replies 62 retweets 60 likes
      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 20 Jun 2016

      Some of the African sites that people came to Roman Britain from, via https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dIgbBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA63&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/0jdNzXVcdS

      10:21 AM - 20 Jun 2016
      • 47 Retweets
      • 53 Likes
      • Ray Ellis Mela Eckenfels Peter Stewart Montse Campoy 🎗🇹🇩 Luis Torras Ritterton Dr Mike Nevell Azor Eirik Welo
      7 replies 47 retweets 53 likes
        1. New conversation
        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 20 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

          Interestingly, not simply one-way traffic---evidence for some Britons+British artefacts in Roman-era N Africa too:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/726122772309626880 …

          Dr Caitlin Green added,

          Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
          Some Romano-British objects found in Europe & North Africa -- new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/romano-british-finds-europe-africa.html … pic.twitter.com/aBkNgZ0sec
          2 replies 7 retweets 7 likes
        3. T S P‏ @morangles 20 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Logical NorthAfriacns Numides get into the Legions Older&wiser return home for retirement (&probably the weather)

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 20 Jun 2016
          Replying to @morangles

          Yes, mixture of this + some British units recorded in N Africa & some units from N Africa in Britain + then in Africa again etc!

          0 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
        5. End of conversation
        1. New conversation
        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          2 replies 34 retweets 49 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

          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 …

          Dr Caitlin Green added,

          Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen
          'Beachy Head Lady', 3rdC AD, of African descent+prob high status but grew up in SE England: http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art474162-beachy-head-lady-was-young-sub-saharan-roman-with-good-teeth-say-archaeologists … pic.twitter.com/TBRvesXH0n
          1 reply 14 retweets 20 likes
        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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 …

          2 replies 20 retweets 26 likes
        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          6 replies 55 retweets 70 likes
        6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          2 replies 10 retweets 11 likes
        7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          3 replies 26 retweets 42 likes
        8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

          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 …

          Dr Caitlin Green added,

          Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
          A Mediterranean anchor of the 5th-2ndC BC found off the coast of Britain---new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/08/a-mediterranean-anchor.html … pic.twitter.com/0zMzLMLrwN
          2 replies 19 retweets 24 likes
        9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Poole port c.300BC: 2 piers, 8m wide, paved stone surface+best parallels=Punic/Mediterranean..?(via @awhitingdorset)pic.twitter.com/fhAKAibwnv

          4 replies 24 retweets 34 likes
        10. 12 more replies
        1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 10 Nov 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          0 replies 3 retweets 8 likes
          Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo
          Undo
        1. New conversation
        2. Ellie Rose Elliott‏ @gaijinrose 28 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          And the majority of those people would have been, from the distribution, Punic. If not Punic, Berber. Algerian/Tunisian/Lebanese DNA not POC

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Jul 2017
          Replying to @gaijinrose

          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 >

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen @gaijinrose

          > refer specifically to percentages of people in those Roman cems who are identifiable as being of probable 'Sub-Saharan' African ancestry…

          5 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        5. Ellie Rose Elliott‏ @gaijinrose 28 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          And the Severan family? oh please. So Punic his sister didn't speak Latin. The Severan forum at Leptis celebrates Melqart and Shadrapa...

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Jul 2017
          Replying to @gaijinrose

          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*

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        7. End of conversation
        1. New conversation
        2. AncientBlogger‏ @ancientblogger 21 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          fascinating - cheers! I've done a couple of articles on my blog about African influence in Greece/Rome. This is brilliant!

          3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Jun 2016
          Replying to @ancientblogger

          Thanks! Glad you like! :)

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. End of conversation
        1. New conversation
        2. John Ma‏ @Nakhthor 24 Aug 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          As noted earlier, there were 2 auxiliary units from Britain in Mauretania Tingitana. I want cartoon with "typically Roman" family of Britons

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 24 Aug 2017
          Replying to @Nakhthor

          Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

          There were indeed, left inscriptions and possibly small number of finds too, depending on interpretation!https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/726122772309626880 …

          Dr Caitlin Green added,

          Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
          Some Romano-British objects found in Europe & North Africa -- new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/romano-british-finds-europe-africa.html … pic.twitter.com/aBkNgZ0sec
          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. End of conversation

      Loading seems to be taking a while.

      Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

        Promoted Tweet

        false

        • © 2018 Twitter
        • About
        • Help Center
        • Terms
        • Privacy policy
        • Cookies
        • Ads info