This thread is a great place to start for anyone wanting to understand African presence in Roman Britain @wmarybeard @nntalebhttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/890897245142474754 …
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> was a response to the fuss over the BBC depiction & using my research+others' on mobility in that era :) Likewise distinct is question >
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> of relationship between population of Roman Britain & modern population/DNA proportions etc, though some folk seem not to get this (and >
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> seem to want to assume a simplistic linear relationship when clear that relationship is loose at best! There's 1600–2000 yrs separating >
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> modern popn from Roman one, during which major changes + events incl end of Roman rule, deurbanisation, reurbanisation, Anglo-Saxon >
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> immigration, Viking invasions, Normans etc etc etc...!) :)
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I may be wrong, but wasn't the hubub over the presentation of a sub-Saharan African as a typical representative of Roman Britain?
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Think the tedious trolls moved on to that after initial 'there were no people of African ancestry in Roman Britain' was widely ridiculed ;)
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In any case, at Roman York's "The Railway" cemetery, the detailed analysis in this paper (https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/744286383771127808 …) suggested that at least >
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Odd how people will accept African gold reached Ireland in prehistoric times, but not that Africans could reach British Isles in Roman era.
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What is known about "the entirely distinct topic", now that you mention it? Refs?
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