In this context, worth noting that multiple ppl buried at 7th-9thC Bamburgh may well have African origin too... Seehttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/657981747154522112 …
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Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
In this context, worth noting that multiple ppl buried at 7th-9thC Bamburgh may well have African origin too... Seehttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/657981747154522112 …
Dr Caitlin Green added,
Similarly, 2 people in the 7thC monastic cemetery at Ely may well have grown up in N Africa http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6135608&fileId=S0003581509990102 …pic.twitter.com/xWbw7AZUOm
Isotope evidence for poss movement between South Wales & Byzantine N. Africa in the 5th-7thC http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544031300023X …pic.twitter.com/jmcswBsf2Q
A woman in the 4th-7thC cem at Balladoole, Isle of Man, may similarly have N.African origins http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440314003185 …pic.twitter.com/hlvEjP2NmF
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
Period with highest proportion of sites w/ prob evidence for people from N.Africa is, of course, the Roman era e.g.https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/744286383771127808 …
Dr Caitlin Green added,
A nice overview by Hella Eckardt---'Seeing Black: Africans in Roman Britain' (2014): https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dIgbBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA63&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/ZLMQ487s6D
Some of the African sites that people came to Roman Britain from, via https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dIgbBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA63&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/0jdNzXVcdS
A high status, mixed-race 4thC Roman woman poss from the Med/N Africa + buried at York: http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/17041/1/M_Lewis_Bangle_Lady.pdf …pic.twitter.com/DQ8aYOJX2n
Multiple ppl w/ African ancestry and/or isotope results indicative of an origin in N.Africa, buried at Roman London: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440316301030 …
North Africans are NOT Sub-Saharan Africans. How many times are you going to dishonestly use this trick?
This was posted nearly a year ago and uses the terminology of the paper.
And Roman Britain had a population of 2.8 to 3 million by late 2nd century. What % was Sub-Saharan African? 70%, 50%, 30%, 5%, 0.3%?
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