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Dr Caitlin Green
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Dr Caitlin Green

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History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.

Cornwall/Lincolnshire
caitlingreen.org
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    1. Nassim Nicholas Taleb‏Verified account @nntaleb 3 Aug 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen @wellydog67 and

      I don't think anybody was saying NO pple of African ancestry, the discussion was *Representativeness* & typicality of scene.

      3 replies 3 retweets 21 likes
    2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Aug 2017
      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! :)

      2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    3. Nassim Nicholas Taleb‏Verified account @nntaleb 3 Aug 2017
      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.

      10 replies 24 retweets 114 likes
    4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Aug 2017
      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 >

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Aug 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen @nntaleb and

      > to get enough isotope evidence for larger scale analysis (and material published since I did the analysis in thread strengthens picture) >

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Aug 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen @nntaleb and

      > 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 >

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Aug 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen @nntaleb and

      > 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, >

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Aug 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen @nntaleb and

      > but relies on sometimes dubious historical models in data choice and interpretation and often produces results that suggest relationship >

      1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
    9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Aug 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen @nntaleb and

      > 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 >

      2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
    10. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Aug 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen @nntaleb and

      > here, both in terms of Anglo-Saxon immigrant contribution it proposes & date of admixture etc) etc etc. And this is where historiography >

      1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Aug 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen @nntaleb and

      > comes in. Imho, of course! But now I really am off out in sun :)

      5:50 AM - 3 Aug 2017
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        1. Sod Saves 🌲 🌞‏ @wallyontheway 3 Aug 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen @nntaleb and

          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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        1. MaMey‏ @FrenchAtticus 3 Aug 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen @nntaleb and

          And you just destroyed Taleb's so called "point".

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        1. Sod Saves 🌲 🌞‏ @wallyontheway 3 Aug 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen @nntaleb and

          Think there's a dramatic diff btwn known cases of ind african merchants living in urban trading posts & changin every 3rd briton 2be african

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