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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3092658, member: 84744&quot;]I think there&#039;s some unfair criticism of this article above, so I thought I&#039;d just add my two cents in defense of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>• The author is indeed an academic, citing other academic work.</p><p>• Just because there are a few pieces of evidence indicating cultural and racial diversity doesn&#039;t mean that further evidence doesn&#039;t make a difference to consensus views over a period of time.&nbsp; Indeed, <a href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/roman-britain-black-white/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/roman-britain-black-white/" rel="nofollow">Mary Beard indicates</a> that the evidence is far from complete concerning the extent and variety of diversity.&nbsp; So I don&#039;t think it&#039;s fair to say, &quot;Oh, we already knew that.&quot;</p><p>• In particular, there has been a lot of recent evidence from genetic analysis that wasn&#039;t available even ten years ago, not just about Roman Britain but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/first-modern-britons-dark-black-skin-cheddar-man-dna-analysis-reveals" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/first-modern-britons-dark-black-skin-cheddar-man-dna-analysis-reveals" rel="nofollow">earlier too</a>.&nbsp; Again, there was some relevant evidence before, but it is much stronger now.</p><p>• Apparently the article was in part prompted by some ignorant comments among both academics and non-academics who aren&#039;t expert in the area, justifying the article being written and even perhaps some of the hype.&nbsp; And clearly justifying the museum exhibit the article is actually about, and which the author helped curate!</p><p><br /></p><p>So... thanks for posting, RC![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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