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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3092713, member: 84744&quot;]Did we even read the same article?! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>First she discusses exactly why material culture (e.g. burial goods) is often subject to bias, or is misleading or absent.&nbsp; Then she describes how her area of expertise can help avoid these problems.&nbsp; She is a bioarchaeologist, using worldwide data sets of patterns of teeth and skeletal growth &amp; mineral composition to identify where a person lived for extended periods of time.&nbsp; (All of this is in the context of pointing out the vast array of diverse pieces of evidence in favour of the diversity hypothesis.)&nbsp; Then comes the paragraph I think you&#039;re complaining about:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;We have discovered, for example, that one middle-aged woman from the southern Mediterranean has black African ancestry. She was buried in Southwark with pottery from Kent and a fourth century local coin – her burial expresses British connections, reflecting how people’s communities and lives can be remade by migration. The people burying her may have decided to reflect her life in the city by choosing local objects, but we can’t dismiss the possibility that she may have come to London as a slave.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>First, her skeleton was found in <i>London</i> (Southwark).&nbsp; Second, the grounds for claiming that she had black African ancestry and spent time in the southern Mediterranean (not necessarily Italy) is not some wild guess, as you suggest, but the very bioarchaeological data she&#039;s just talked about.&nbsp; &quot;[On this basis] we have discovered, for example...&quot;&nbsp; Third, she does not say that she was probably a black slave, but rather that &quot;we can&#039;t dismiss&quot; this possibility.</p><p><br /></p><p>So take it back! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie81" alt=":shifty:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie82" alt=":shy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; The article&#039;s OK.&nbsp; (In any case, we agree on the overall conclusion, I think, which is the main thing.&nbsp; Peace! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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