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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> here, both in terms of Anglo-Saxon immigrant contribution it proposes & date of admixture etc) etc etc. And this is where historiography >
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> comes in. Imho, of course! But now I really am off out in sun :)
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There would be a much greater influx of subsaharan dna into the general population if what bbc created was at all accurate. Which it wasn't.
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I often wonder what basis / assumption gets used when extrapolating modern DNA back in time. 2000yo samples must be fairly sparse?
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Indeed. But more reliable than relying on cranial indices.
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