The question of how Romans/Romano-Britons would have seen this and or conceived of race etc is an entirely distinct topic—this thread >
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> in most cases I would prob just repeat previous answers and/or refer back to the thread I posted & the articles cited...
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This is accurate but still doesn't make the BBC image anywhere near right.
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i think it is broadly based on Quintus Lollius Urbicus, governor of Britain a bit later than Hadrian, came from Tiddis in Algeria
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Some ignorance on the part of Ms Beard: classifying Pple of Tiddis, Roman times "nonwhite" equiv. to classifying London Italians as such
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Mediterranean people generally have darker skin tone than north Europeans, so a cartoon could very fairly draw an Algerian with dark skin
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It was not an Algerian with dark skin it was a West African.
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No, it was a cartoon with people with varied degrees of skin tone - you are projecting your own interpretation onto the cartoon.
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You seem to be obsessed with skin tones. The cartoon depicted people with Sub-Saharan phenotype and morphology.
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Kate Cooper and Kaitlin Green are taking the scholarly approach; it is a matter of S Med phenotype & worth engagin.Beard is useless; ignore
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No "Scythian" ancestry/affinities ? Or "Arabian"?
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