> Eg. at high status 'The Railway' cem, fordisc analysis indicted c.32% had 'African' ('Sub-Saharan') affinities & 15% in 'Egyptian' range >
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Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
> Similar research recently published from Roman London too: https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/781944932550512642 … Interestingly, ancestry determinations from London >
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> have been confirmed by ancient DNA analysis, seehttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/written-in-bone-new-discoveries-about-the-lives-and-burials-of-four-roman-londoners/F464D9E93FCE96341DDD7774C4C8CA10 …
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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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Billare Retweeted Billare
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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Incidentally, I might also throw into the mix the documented contacts w/ Nubia/Red Sea trade, & East Africa trade :) (cf. Felix Chami's >
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> work on+around Mafia island incl recent discovery of poss city on Mafia that may be the lost Rhapta & is associated w/ Roman tile+pottery)
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