Skeleton in an excavation site.© MOLA Headland Infrastructure
Posted on 12/26/2023 7:17:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Research shows that the skeleton found in Cambridgeshire is of a man from a nomadic group known as Sarmatians.
It is the first biological proof that these people came to Britain from the furthest reaches of the Roman empire and that some lived in the countryside.
The remains were discovered during excavations to improve the A14 road between Cambridge and Huntingdon...
Archaeologists discovered a complete, well-preserved skeleton of a man, they named Offord Cluny 203645 - a combination of the Cambridgeshire village he was found in and his specimen number. He was buried by himself without any personal possessions in a ditch, so there was little to go on to establish his identity.
Dr Marina Silva of the Ancient Genomics Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute, in London, extracted and decoded Offord's ancient DNA from a tiny bone taken from his inner ear, which was the best preserved part of the entire skeleton.
...a team from the archaeology department of Durham University used another exciting analysis technique to examine his fossilised teeth, which have chemical traces of what he ate...
The analysis showed that until the age of six he ate millets and sorghum grains, known scientifically as C4 crops, which are plentiful in the region where Sarmatians were known to have lived.
But over time, analysis showed a gradual decrease in his consumption of these grains and more wheat, found in western Europe, according to Prof Janet Montgomery...
Historical records indicate that Offord could have been a cavalry man's son, or possibly his slave. They show that around the time he lived, a unit of the Sarmatian cavalry incorporated into the Roman army was posted to Britain.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Skeleton in an excavation site.© MOLA Headland Infrastructure
2000 years old.
I don’t think I’ll live that long.
additional topics for this week:
Ancient relatives
New computational tool detects up to second to third degree cousins using ancient genomes
December 20, 2023
https://www.mpg.de/21294386/1220-evan-revealing-close-and-distant-relatives-150495-x
America’s native population arises from a single wave of Asian migration
Thursday, 14 December 2023
The CENIEH has participated in some research into the dental variation in Native Americans, whose results suggest that they have a similar degree of affinity with populations in East Asia, and are classified as East Asian between 10% and 15% of the time
(IOW, isn’t 85 to 90 percent of the time)
https://www.cenieh.es/en/press/news/americas-native-population-arises-single-wave-asian-migration
Extinct woolly dog was carefully bred for weaving, ancient DNA confirms
By Carolyn Y. Johnson
December 14, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. EST
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/12/14/woolly-dog-dna-coast-salish/
People, if you don't floss this is what happens. You think, "Hey, if I die who's gonna care about my dental hygiene?" But noooo... People from two millennia in the future are going to know. And they're putting it on your permanent dental record.
“Sarmatians”
This identity is rather confusing, but if you take a few moments to sort it all out, it turns out that they were a helpful, good people, although dyslexic. They were nonetheless smart, and came from Mars.
lol
“he was buried by himself”.
Must have been a democrat as they are quite animate after death, especially at voting time.
Cool story. But LOADS of speculation in there.
We know that the Brits are pretty slack on dental hygiene.
But this chaps teeth have lasted 2,100 years so far?
No they did not. They were fossilized, says right in the article. So they decayed and turned into fossils.
He must have really been hating life!
Ha! Good one! 👍😎😁
George Soros might. (Shudder...)
A slave you say? Use that DNA to determine his descendants and get them on the reparations gravy train pronto!
Anything on “Offord Cluny 203645’s” Y-dna haplogroup?
Ship him to the US, the Democrats can use another voter.
His slave? Don't they know it was EVIL REPUBLICANS who started slavery? 🤓
The Good Sarmatian...................
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