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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Incidentally, image above=Ptolemaic map of China/SE Asia; Ptolemy in 2ndC AD derived info from Greek who visited Cattigara, prob Vietnam...
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 …
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?
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…
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
You stand w/ dealing with London's cases as w/ other cases before,which their conclusions were accepted without DNA analysis.
but I think you're not against using DNA to confirm the results, if it's possible to extract it.
Yes, that'd be my position on both counts :)
Both counts; that's fair & scientific judgment.
Thank you :)
Forbes' contrib Dr Killgrove is a clickbait artist with a PhD, is all


(she's "corrected" the research of so many people I know)
she was having a go at correcting me also
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