Some evidence for people of 'East Asian' ancestry living in Roman London — new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/09/east-asian-people-roman-london.html …pic.twitter.com/ibCwBoXakZ
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Most obvious parallel for ppl w/ East Asian ancestry buried in Roman London is 1st-2ndC AD burial at Vagnari, Italy:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/754659882226348032 …
Incidentally, this is not a doughnut but a 1st-4thC AD Roman glass bead found in a 5thC AD tomb in Japan...! :) http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/17691 pic.twitter.com/IptLs4OwYY
A Roman blue glass bowl found in a 5thC AD tomb in Japan: http://www.archaeology.org/news/2705-141113-japan-nara-tomb …pic.twitter.com/8OPv724A9U
Gold imitation of a 6thC Byzantine coin of Justinian, struck on one side only, found in the Astana cemetery, China: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/gold-imitation-of-a-byzantine-coin-found-in-china/PQEWwpJjUKikOw …pic.twitter.com/5qqvFbjlhp
Mint gold Byzantine solidus of Anastasius (491–518) found in tomb of Emperor Jiemin (498-532), Northern Wei dynasty: http://primaltrek.com/blog/2013/10/31/byzantine-gold-coin-found-in-tomb-of-emperor-jiemin-of-northern-wei/ …pic.twitter.com/tkFW9f1U2g
For more on this cemetery and the methodologies used, see the full paper here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440316301030 … (£)pic.twitter.com/uBUPne6bQa
And here's a sceptical reaction to the headlines the piece generated:https://twitter.com/carolemadge/status/779949408238657536 …
Incidentally, I would say this seems slightly hyper-sceptical to me... No, doesn't have DNA, but neither did this:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/744286383771127808 …
Used related methodologies & part of well-respected recent 'Diaspora Communities in Roman Britain' project:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/736605178502238208 …
Similarly, Forbes piece says assigning ancestry on basis of only 2 or less traits is dubious... However, study is v clear on this and... >
>...it isn't what they do in case of 2 probable Asian ppl in this cem! One has Asian ancestry assigned based on *15* traits, the other on 7!
In sum, the 'pinch of salt' may need a pinch of salt, so to speak ;) Study authors being slightly unfairly treated here,or so seems to me...
In my view, little real difference between this study+York one, & if accept latter (as everyone seems to) then no reason to reject this one.
Love your tweets!
Thanks! :)
I saw a resent study that showed early Carthaginians had DNA from Western Europe.
is it that unusual that people of N. African descent would be in British isles?
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