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Dr Caitlin Green

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History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.

Cornwall/Lincolnshire
caitlingreen.org
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    Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Jul 2017

    Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

    Fwiw, c.47% of Romano-British cemeteries investigated isotopically have evidence of at least 1 person from Africa…https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/734829125404364800 …

    Dr Caitlin Green added,

    Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
    A note on the evidence for African migrants in Bronze Age–Medieval Britain — new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/a-note-on-evidence-for-african-migrants.html … pic.twitter.com/lnldjbZaKI
    4:30 AM - 28 Jul 2017
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    9 replies 175 retweets 294 likes
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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

        Moreover, some cemeteries have significantly more than 1 person from Africa or of African ancestry, see further:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/657981747154522112 …

        Dr Caitlin Green added,

        Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
        Some oxygen isotope evidence for Africans in Britain, c. 1100 BC–AD 800---new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/10/oxygen-isotope-evidence.html … pic.twitter.com/fUiIFCbj9r
        2 replies 21 retweets 55 likes
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

        For example, a study of Roman York's cems suggests at least 11% of ppl were of African ancestry, w/ 51% as poss max…https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/744286383771127808 …

        Dr Caitlin Green added,

        Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen
        Interesting paper on 2 cemeteries from Roman York suggesting considerable diversity then: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.21104/abstract … pic.twitter.com/Qd3QpZXHKZ
        3 replies 74 retweets 111 likes
      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

        Similar figures from other urban sites too eg. Roman London, where 24% of ppl studied were of prob African ancestry:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/781944932550512642 …

        Dr Caitlin Green added,

        Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen
        Multiple ppl w/ African ancestry and/or isotope results indicative of an origin in N.Africa, buried at Roman London: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440316301030 …
        7 replies 54 retweets 80 likes
      5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        See also recent large study of Roman Leicester, where 6% of those interred in cemetery are poss of African descent: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/38172433 …

        2 replies 26 retweets 48 likes
      6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

        Worth noting, incidentally, that men, women and children all feature, and examples not just from urban burials, e.g.https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/735761635806060544 …

        Dr Caitlin Green added,

        Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
        Replying 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/TBRvesXH0n
        1 reply 27 retweets 49 likes
      7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Likewise, evidence indicates not just 1st gen migrants but also 2nd gen who grew up in Britain etc & presence of people of 'mixed' ancestry…

        2 replies 18 retweets 43 likes
      8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

        People also of varying status+roles, incl v high status eg. https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/736890264728539136 … Indeed, higher-status cem at York has higher proportion!

        Dr Caitlin Green added,

        Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen
        'A Lady of York: migration, ethnicity and identity in Roman Britain'--available online here: http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/17041/1/M_Lewis_Bangle_Lady.pdf … pic.twitter.com/VlzoUPQ2dH
        1 reply 21 retweets 44 likes
      9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

        Of course, this all largely separate/additional to evidence from inscriptions/military units &c—see, for example, https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/744866290846818305 … :)

        Dr Caitlin Green added,

        Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen
        A nice overview by Hella Eckardt---'Seeing Black: Africans in Roman Britain' (2014): https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dIgbBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA63&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false … pic.twitter.com/ZLMQ487s6D
        2 replies 18 retweets 32 likes
      10. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

        And, of course, worth noting that is some potential evidence for ppl of East Asian ancestry in Roman London too…https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/778304115638202368 …

        Dr Caitlin Green added,

        A fifteenth-century map of the world based on the second-century AD Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, with the British Isles on the far left and China on the far right.
        A first- to fourth-century AD Roman glass bead found in a fifth-century AD grave in Japan.
        A bronze coin of the Roman emperor Constantius II (337–61), found in China.
        Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
        Some evidence for people of 'East Asian' ancestry living in Roman London — new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/09/east-asian-people-roman-london.html … pic.twitter.com/ibCwBoXakZ
        2 replies 29 retweets 61 likes
      11. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 29 Jul 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        In sum, seems clear that there is, in fact, notable evidence for diversity in Roman Britain, & that we can start to put figures on this :)

        4 replies 30 retweets 96 likes
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      2. Nigel Hillpaul ن‏ @TheHillpaul 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Great thread, but should I be astonished by the recent fuss about Roman Britains multiracial makeup. It was emphasised when I was at school

        1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @TheHillpaul

        Indeed. Been known for a long time, yet still apparently has power to anger some folk, alas :-/

        2 replies 1 retweet 16 likes
      4. Michael Merrifield‏ @AstroMikeMerri 29 Jul 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen @TheHillpaul

        Happily, that self-aggrandising manufactured anger has ensured that many more people (including me) are now aware of this.

        1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
      5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 29 Jul 2017
        Replying to @AstroMikeMerri @profmike_m @TheHillpaul

        :) Unintended consequences etc!

        0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      6. End of conversation
      1. New conversation
      2. DrawMyCare‏ @MaryOToole10 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        any evidence of social status? (Romans had slaves from all over empire)

        1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @MaryOToole10

        Some v high, others not - varies! Higher-status cem at York has greater proportion of ppl of 'black' or 'mixed' origins, fwiw...

        0 replies 4 retweets 8 likes
      4. End of conversation
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      2. Alan Taylor‏ @Upuaut711 29 Jul 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        47% of how many? Need all info if it's to be meaningful.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. mikems #GTTO‏ @socialistMike 29 Jul 2017
        Replying to @Upuaut711 @caitlinrgreen

        The ones they've looked at? Just a guess...

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 29 Jul 2017
        Replying to @socialistMike @Upuaut711

        Indeed! (& is in text…) Fwiw, several new sites, incl London, published since I surveyed corpus last year, all confirm+strengthen pattern :)

        0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. End of conversation
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      2. FreisinnigeZeitung‏ @FreisinnigeZtg 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        What people who think in terms of "pure" races totally miss: Europe has always been a huge meltingpot. In the 1870s the German ...

        1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes
      3. FreisinnigeZeitung‏ @FreisinnigeZtg 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @FreisinnigeZtg @caitlinrgreen

        ... anthropologist Rudolf Virchow initiated a countrywide study for hair & eye colors of German schoolchildren. The result was that ...

        1 reply 3 retweets 2 likes
      4. FreisinnigeZeitung‏ @FreisinnigeZtg 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @FreisinnigeZtg @caitlinrgreen

        ... there is a smooth gradient from North to South from a fairer to a darker population. Fun fact: most Germans are not blond & blue-eyed.

        1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes
      5. FreisinnigeZeitung‏ @FreisinnigeZtg 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @FreisinnigeZtg @caitlinrgreen

        Eg. I've black hair. When I was in Rome, Italians found it natural to ask me for directions. And even funnier: people have addressed me ...

        1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes
      6. FreisinnigeZeitung‏ @FreisinnigeZtg 28 Jul 2017
        Replying to @FreisinnigeZtg @caitlinrgreen

        ... spontaneously in Farsi, Arabic, and Hebrew (a woman in a discotheque was 200% sure she knew me from Israel).

        0 replies 3 retweets 6 likes
      7. End of conversation

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