The point being, the number was minuscule, then add to that, time. That diversity gap closed. Opening in time with other invaders.
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I'd say east med ethnically diverse, it's was a hotbed for everything. Britain on fringe not diverse. Just a colony. A wet one at that.

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True on weather: some of the letters home requesting socks show people underwhelmed by the weather here! But I guess my point here is that >
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> if you look at the major cities, have evidence of *considerable* diversity in the Roman-era urban populations, as well as on the Wall etc>
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> and where we have evidence from other areas we find it there too. E.g. even in 'post-Roman' south Wales (5–7thC) we have likely African >
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And I do very much appreciate you taking your time to chat about this! A couple of friends will be interested to hear about it!


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No problem :) Hope it's interesting/useful! Fwiw, most fascinating recent study showed not only ppl of African origin in suburban London >
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> (c.24% of sample tested) but also a small number of East Asians...! (Some DNA evidence for same in Roman Italy, fwiw)
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And tbh..who'd have left Africa deliberately to get wet here?
not much foeuptune or fame either!
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> percentages in urban cemeteries! :)
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Question: how many Roman urban centres were there? How many graves have been found?
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Here's a rough map of notable the urban centres, via https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman.Britain.towns.villas.jpg … So a fair few! London had perhaps 45,000 ppl, poss more. In >pic.twitter.com/Jw8xutUbB8
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> terms of urban burials, we have lots of evidence but a lot of old, antiquarian records. However, increasingly major cems are being >
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> properly studied and in these major samples we keep finding similar patterns of significant diversity in urban populations :)
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