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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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @wellydog67 and
I don't think anybody was saying NO pple of African ancestry, the discussion was *Representativeness* & typicality of scene.
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Replying to @nntaleb @wellydog67 and
I think it started out one way and then developed into that once it became unsustainable, iirc, though it may be that I'm misremembering! :)
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @wellydog67 and
I am sure that you agree: history shd be accurate representation of past empirical reality not cherry-picked saliency/ availability biases.
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Replying to @nntaleb @wellydog67 and
I think as an ideal, but in practice must work with what we have, & all our sources have holes and inadequacies :) I think we're starting >
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> to get enough isotope evidence for larger scale analysis (and material published since I did the analysis in thread strengthens picture) >
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> but still could do with more! We're starting to get fordisc etc analysis of urban sites now (York, Leicester, London) and it's showing >
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> a similar picture, now backed up by recent ancient DNA work, but we could do with more & esp non-urban etc. Modern DNA is interesting, >
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> but relies on sometimes dubious historical models in data choice and interpretation and often produces results that suggest relationship >
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> of modern DNA proportions to population of 1500–2000 yrs ago is at best loose and def uncertain (2016 Nature article is case in point >
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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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