It is plausible that there were such families in the Roman Empire. They were extremely improbable, & certainly not typical.
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First, I commend you: You have evidence & you brought it in full. Still, this doesn't quite live up to my expectations of an aDNA paper..
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it simply states the ancestry of the individual, w/o the bare support of a mitochondrial marker.
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But this really quite astounding to me. What's the proposed theory on the (significant) admixing of sub-Saharan Africans w/o good transport?
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Not your expertise, I guess. But this peturbs my tidy box of "what I think I know" .https://twitter.com/Billare/status/894778068195315712 …
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Thank you :) And, yes! But that's why I love studying history & archaeology, its ability to upend our assumptions and beliefs! Reading >
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> your thread, I think the key here is that Saharan and trans-Saharan trading in antiquity has seen a major reassessment in recent years >
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> as a result of the Fazzan Project & study of the Garamantian kingdom. See in particular Andrew Wilson's fab paper: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0067270X.2012.727614 …
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> Wilson argues for a v substantial degree of Saharan & trans-Saharan trading from 1stC AD, incl slave trade that rivalled medieval era…
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Good lord, read the paper! The "African" carried an mtdna haplogroup characteristic of Northwest Europeans.pic.twitter.com/jHImeo4GPj
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I actually offered a brief comment on that, though I'm not a haplogroup-monger like a lot of people interested in anth. genetics.
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Maybe I should be. I was rather more convinced by the added support of the "FORDISC" analysis, because I know phys. anthropologists tend
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to have sharp methods of distinguishing ssAs, tho I didn't investigate the actual papers itself. Trust, I'm going to read further on this.
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Well, ignore all the above. I just noticed what you linked was a sharp criticism of FORDISC, not HirisPlex.
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