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/ …
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A 2ndC AD Roman cemetery at Leicester with 6% of those interred possibly of African descent: http://m.leicestermercury.co.uk/why-roman-skeletons-could-be-first-evidence-of-leicester-s-african-population/story-29953169-detail/story.html …pic.twitter.com/aUqyZjiAus
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(The link on this post appears to be currently broken, so here's the BBC report on this fascinating cemetery: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-38172433 …)
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North Africans are NOT Sub-Saharan Africans. How many times are you going to dishonestly use this trick?
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This was posted nearly a year ago and uses the terminology of the paper.
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And Roman Britain had a population of 2.8 to 3 million by late 2nd century. What % was Sub-Saharan African? 70%, 50%, 30%, 5%, 0.3%?
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Lest we forget, for the first several decades of the 3rd century Britain was ruled by African emperors.
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