The living history of a skeleton
Posted: December 19th, 2023, 4:19 pm
DNA sleuths crack 2,000 year-old migrant mystery
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67755415
How did a young man born 2,000 years ago near what is now southern Russia, end up in the English countryside?
"DNA sleuths have retraced his steps while shedding light on a key episode in the history of Roman Britain.
Research shows that the skeleton found in Cambridgeshire is of a man from a nomadic group known as Sarmatians."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67755415
How did a young man born 2,000 years ago near what is now southern Russia, end up in the English countryside?
"DNA sleuths have retraced his steps while shedding light on a key episode in the history of Roman Britain.
Research shows that the skeleton found in Cambridgeshire is of a man from a nomadic group known as Sarmatians."