Fwiw, c.47% of Romano-British cemeteries investigated isotopically have evidence of at least 1 person from Africa…https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/734829125404364800 …
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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!
Of course, this all largely separate/additional to evidence from inscriptions/military units &c—see, for example, https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/744866290846818305 … :)
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 …
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 :)
I don't have the time to read all the interesting stuff you posted RN but I don't think anyone was doubting a large number of North Africans
In Roman Britain or throughout the empire. The crux of this silly debate is whether the BBC was PC propagandizing history with sub saharans
I think taleb was making the argument that there is almost no genetic evidence of sub saharan Africans in England.
Yet the data from York, London, Leicester etc relates directly to ppl of 'Sub-Saharan' ancestry :) And as I said yesterday, modern DNA >
So why are indigenous Welsh not olive skinned like Spanish or Greeks? If interaction was significant where are the genes they left behind?
Modern DNA evidence is horribly difficult to use historically, I fear; lots of methodological issues & factors over intervening 1500+ yrs >
> mean can't project back like that in a simple manner, cf. my occasional tweets on disconnect between modern DNA proportions >
> in England & likely size of Anglo-Saxon immigration etc :)
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