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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Although the point still stands, is it ethnically diverse or just like danaerys targaryen turning up with her army, then leaving?
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No, again, don't think army explanation works! This carries on well into 4thC and then in post-Roman cems in western Britain, + evidence of>
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> families etc, second/third generation ppl, ppl of mixed ancestry etc. Think best to think of urban centres as genuinely diverse, w/ >
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I still find it difficult to assume that, especially when limited trace in DNA findings. Again, like saying India diverse because we went.
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Well, as before, modern DNA evidence is v dubious as historical evidence! And again, think percentages in cems suggest analogy not a great >
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> one, plus a meta-analysis I did of Romano-British cemeteries indicates over 40% of cems studied have at least one person of probable >
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> African origin... Which strikes me as a noteworthy figure that backs up the big cem studies :)
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