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BBC: DNA study finds London was ethnically diverse from start
BT: 2,000 year old Londoners weren't from London, DNA reveals
I don't know if any paper has been published. Here's information that can gathered from the articles. They tested genetic markers
Four indviduals:
14 year old Girl: North Africa.
Gladiator: "His mother's ancestral line is common in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.". His mtDNA is probably an ambiguous West Eurasian mtDNA haplogroup. You can't pin point origin with mtDNA.
"Mansell Street man": 45 years old. Dark Brown hair and Brown eyes. "both his remains and DNA showed a strong African connection." NW Africa, Egypt, Ethopia? Doesn't say.
"Harper road woman": Actually a male. Died 43AD which was at the begging of Roman conquest. He was a native Briton buried with Roman pottery and belongings. The authors say this means he adopted Roman culture.
It'll be very interesting to see more detailed information from the paper and genome bloggers. It'll be most interesting to see the genetic-affinity of the three non-Britons. They can reveal information about the regions they came from. Maybe there's been influence of Arab genes in NW Africa and the North African girl will reveal that. Hopefully the Gladiator had his autosomal DNA tested. If he wasn't Briton, he could reveal information about another region in the Middle East or Europe.
As interesting as this information is, i'm annoyed by the PC-agenda in the articles. The "Harper road woman" was biologically male but because he was first thought to be female based on skeletal remains the BBC and BT articles say "physically she was a woman." They insist on calling him a woman. This is just stupid. When someone wants to be apart of a differnt culture they're crazy but when they want to be a differnt gender they're heros?
BT: 2,000 year old Londoners weren't from London, DNA reveals
I don't know if any paper has been published. Here's information that can gathered from the articles. They tested genetic markers
Four indviduals:
14 year old Girl: North Africa.
Gladiator: "His mother's ancestral line is common in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.". His mtDNA is probably an ambiguous West Eurasian mtDNA haplogroup. You can't pin point origin with mtDNA.
"Mansell Street man": 45 years old. Dark Brown hair and Brown eyes. "both his remains and DNA showed a strong African connection." NW Africa, Egypt, Ethopia? Doesn't say.
"Harper road woman": Actually a male. Died 43AD which was at the begging of Roman conquest. He was a native Briton buried with Roman pottery and belongings. The authors say this means he adopted Roman culture.
It'll be very interesting to see more detailed information from the paper and genome bloggers. It'll be most interesting to see the genetic-affinity of the three non-Britons. They can reveal information about the regions they came from. Maybe there's been influence of Arab genes in NW Africa and the North African girl will reveal that. Hopefully the Gladiator had his autosomal DNA tested. If he wasn't Briton, he could reveal information about another region in the Middle East or Europe.
As interesting as this information is, i'm annoyed by the PC-agenda in the articles. The "Harper road woman" was biologically male but because he was first thought to be female based on skeletal remains the BBC and BT articles say "physically she was a woman." They insist on calling him a woman. This is just stupid. When someone wants to be apart of a differnt culture they're crazy but when they want to be a differnt gender they're heros?