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Dr Caitlin Green
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Dr Caitlin Green

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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

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    1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 20 Sep 2016

      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

      A fifteenth-century map of the world based on the second-century AD Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, with the British Isles on the far left and China on the far right.
      A first- to fourth-century AD Roman glass bead found in a fifth-century AD grave in Japan.
      A bronze coin of the Roman emperor Constantius II (337–61), found in China.
      12 replies 383 retweets 478 likes
    2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 20 Sep 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

      Also in this cem=multiple ppl w/ African ancestry + 45% w/ isotope results=childhood in Africa or further afield, cfhttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/734829125404364800 …

      Dr Caitlin Green added,

      Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
      A note on the evidence for African migrants in Bronze Age–Medieval Britain — new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/a-note-on-evidence-for-african-migrants.html … pic.twitter.com/lnldjbZaKI
      5 replies 35 retweets 54 likes
    3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Sep 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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

      Title: Going south of the river: A multidisciplinary analysis of ancestry, mobility and diet in a population from Roman Southwark, London
      1 reply 7 retweets 7 likes
    4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Sep 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Following Hadrian  🧔🏻

      And here's a sceptical reaction to the headlines the piece generated:https://twitter.com/carolemadge/status/779949408238657536 …

      Dr Caitlin Green added,

      Following Hadrian  🧔🏻 @carolemadge
      Chinese Skeletons In Roman Britain? Not So Fast via @forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/09/23/chinese-skeletons-in-roman-britain-not-so-fast/#361981cfef9b …
      1 reply 5 retweets 3 likes
    5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Sep 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

      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 …

      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
      2 replies 3 retweets 2 likes
    6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Sep 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

      Used related methodologies & part of well-respected recent 'Diaspora Communities in Roman Britain' project:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/736605178502238208 …

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      Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen
      A Long way From Home: Diaspora Communities in Roman Britain -- http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/diaspora_ahrc_2011/ …, via @ADS_Update pic.twitter.com/MXOgP9lEAU
      1 reply 5 retweets 5 likes
    7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Sep 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Similarly, Forbes piece says assigning ancestry on basis of only 2 or less traits is dubious... However, study is v clear on this and... >

      1 reply 3 retweets 2 likes
    8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Sep 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      >...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!

      1 reply 3 retweets 3 likes
    9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Sep 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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...

      2 replies 3 retweets 5 likes
      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 27 Sep 2016

      Brief note by me on why we should be sceptical of the Forbes 'rebuttal' of the 'Asians in Roman London' research :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/09/east-asian-people-roman-london.html#fn2 …pic.twitter.com/cMWXFMUBst

      Detail of East and Southeast Asia in Ptolemy's world map, with the Gulf of the Ganges (Bay of Bengal) on the left, Southeast Asian peninsula in the centre, and South China Sea rig with "Sinae" (China) on the right.
      2:04 AM - 27 Sep 2016
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        1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 27 Sep 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Incidentally, image above=Ptolemaic map of China/SE Asia; Ptolemy in 2ndC AD derived info from Greek who visited Cattigara, prob Vietnam...

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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Sep 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted The World at One

          Interview w/ Dr Rebecca Redfern, Museum of London, on their identification of ppl w/ Asian ancestry in Roman London:https://twitter.com/BBCWorldatOne/status/779332288681218048 …

          Dr Caitlin Green added,

          Re-enactors dressed as Roman soldiers on Hadrian's Wall
          The World at OneVerified account @BBCWorldatOne
          Two Chinese skeletons discovered in a Roman burial ground could rewrite history http://bbc.in/2csXRvV  pic.twitter.com/DnH689hFsh
          2 replies 49 retweets 60 likes
        3. Laura Cosby‏ @cosby_laura 26 Jun 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          It wouldn't be too unusual surely Palmyra lead to the silk road and traders could have travelled far to see or find goods for exchange?

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 26 Jun 2017
          Replying to @cosby_laura

          I agree :) Also via sea route: Roman & Greek traders mentioned in Vietnam/S. China area… See also East Asian person buried in Roman S.Italy…

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Oct 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          For interest+poss further context, evidence for long-distance migrants living in the 4th-5thC Red Sea port of Aila: https://www.academia.edu/22932720/Strontium_isotope_evidence_for_long-distance_immigration_into_the_Byzantine_port_city_of_Aila_modern_Aqaba_Jordan …pic.twitter.com/9DV69LwA54

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        2. Ahmed Aloirati‏ @Ahmed_Aloirati 27 Sep 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          You stand w/ dealing with London's cases as w/ other cases before,which their conclusions were accepted without DNA analysis.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Ahmed Aloirati‏ @Ahmed_Aloirati 27 Sep 2016
          Replying to @Ahmed_Aloirati @caitlinrgreen

          but I think you're not against using DNA to confirm the results, if it's possible to extract it.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 27 Sep 2016
          Replying to @Ahmed_Aloirati

          Yes, that'd be my position on both counts :)

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        5. Ahmed Aloirati‏ @Ahmed_Aloirati 27 Sep 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Both counts; that's fair & scientific judgment.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Sep 2016
          Replying to @Ahmed_Aloirati

          Thank you :)

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. Tom Metcalfe‏ @globalbabel 29 Sep 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Forbes' contrib Dr Killgrove is a clickbait artist with a PhD, is all

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Dorothy‏ @DLVLK 17 Dec 2016
          Replying to @globalbabel @caitlinrgreen

          😂😂😂 (she's "corrected" the research of so many people I know)

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Tom Metcalfe‏ @globalbabel 17 Dec 2016
          Replying to @DLVLK @DorothyKing @caitlinrgreen

          she was having a go at correcting me also

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. End of conversation

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