This is not rewriting history. It is history. There are evidence, I am sorry you cannot deal with facts. Britain wasn't all white. https://twitter.com/dankriviera/status/889994731316543488 …
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I think this is why archaeologists and historians are all a bit 'huh!?' at claims that no people of African ancestry in Roman Britain...! :)
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Fwiw, at the higher-status The Railway cemetery at Roman York, up to 51% of the population are potentially of 'black' or 'mixed' origins...!
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Sure :) See https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/744286383771127808 … The conservative minimum estimate is 11%, 51% is possible max. Summary here: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/10/oxygen-isotope-evidence.html …
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The research project incl full archive of the skulls+teeth examined from Roman York is available online here: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/diaspora_ahrc_2011/ …
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Leicester and London projects ongoing, latter incl DNA, showing similar as mentioned before in tweet. Winchester+Gloucester isotope only, >
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(The 6% is Leicester, not York, obviously!)
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> are known and interesting textual refs, see https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/642778137647054848 … Hope that helps :)
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