4th October 2011, 03:13 PM
I'm not sure if rebranding BC/AD as Common Era is any less hegemonic. Who was this era common to anyway? To the people who used the BC/AD system.
This is one of the best threads for a while though.
@Kevin
I think some of this was based on oxygen isotope analysis; using the ratios to tell where a person had grown up. You can also see them moving about during their lifetime. Certainly the Swiss archer and several other prehistoric burials that I heard of.
I tend to prefer 'the Roman period', rather than the cultural label of Romano-British. There would have been all sorts of cultural arrangements and change over this 450 year period, as there would have been in the Iron Age.
This is one of the best threads for a while though.
@Kevin
Quote:.I mean we have had Swiss archers, headless Vikings and all sorts of Jutes, Angles and Saxons...so why no Romano-Brit DNA?
I think some of this was based on oxygen isotope analysis; using the ratios to tell where a person had grown up. You can also see them moving about during their lifetime. Certainly the Swiss archer and several other prehistoric burials that I heard of.
I tend to prefer 'the Roman period', rather than the cultural label of Romano-British. There would have been all sorts of cultural arrangements and change over this 450 year period, as there would have been in the Iron Age.