> similar figures from Roman London (24% of probable African origin) & other cities too e.g. Leicester=6% etc etc.https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/781944932550512642 …
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @wallaceme
All I'm seeing from this is that auxiliaries were stationed or fought close by, that's it. No idea if died naturally or in battle.
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Replying to @Jam_mil73 @wallaceme
This might work for some cems, but def not all—urban cems esp are used over long period, some high status, men+women+children present etc >
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> plus some evidence from countryside too etc, e.g. https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/735761635806060544 … ...
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Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreenReplying to @caitlinrgreen'Beachy Head Lady', 3rdC AD, of African descent+prob high status but grew up in SE England: http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art474162-beachy-head-lady-was-young-sub-saharan-roman-with-good-teeth-say-archaeologists … pic.twitter.com/TBRvesXH0n1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen @wallaceme
Honestly Caitlin, if several hundred brits were found in Africa would that make it ethnically diverse or a fragment of history?
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Replying to @Jam_mil73 @wallaceme
Well, there are graves of Britons in Roman-era N. Africa and Near East, but I think the evidence we have suggests a significant degree of >
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> diversity in at least urban populations and also beyond in Roman Britain, which is def worth noting given the evidence we have esp re: >
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> percentages in urban cemeteries! :)
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @wallaceme
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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