Harun ibn Yahya, a late 9th-century traveller, on Britain; account preserved by Ibn Rustah: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/heptarchy-harun-ibn-yahya.html …pic.twitter.com/Ig41PQ25uX
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Harun ibn Yahya, a late 9th-century traveller, on Britain; account preserved by Ibn Rustah: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/heptarchy-harun-ibn-yahya.html …pic.twitter.com/Ig41PQ25uX
Vikings in Morocco & Africans in 9th-11thC Ireland and England: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/09/a-great-host-of-captives.html …pic.twitter.com/9xPm4qgCA4
Post mentions 3 poss burials of African women in 9th-11thC England, incl N. Elmham burial discussed here: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1311/1/1311.pdf pp.224-6
Another African woman, aged 18-24, was found at Fairford, Gloucestershire, in 2013—radiocarbon dated to AD 896–1025:http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/10688142.Schoolboys_amazed_that_skeleton_is_1_000_year_old_African_woman/ …
Hadrian, the L7-E8thC Abbot of St Augustine's,Canterbury, was 'a man of African race' (Bede) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=egy-k7LV-e4C&lpg=PA170&pg=PA170#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/ze0xufAot7
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
friend of mine, with Wales-history in her ancestry, was hoping for more exotic-DNA, perhaps Indian.about to have DNA tested #Byzantium
It's an interesting idea, but she should prepare for it not being! We apparently retain very little DNA from most of our more distant >
> ancestors — see, for example, this: https://gcbias.org/2013/11/04/how-much-of-your-genome-do-you-inherit-from-a-particular-ancestor/amp/ …pic.twitter.com/UI0Iypkazf
Was 7thc 22 generations ago? seems so close! will have to study this some more...
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