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The end of Roman Britain: families, ancestors and DNA

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'Bariel 37', a Male Weapon Burial, Surrounded by Other Burials.

A number of individuals who we can demonstrate are biologically related to west africa. We have this sort of mixture of individuals with either this sort of hybrid a ancestry, or very clear ancestry. One way or another, we don't know which way it is, whether forty seven are west african descendant. Is their niece or whether they're her nieces, but they're also related. I think that' that's such a powerful part of this narrative,. because those two women are 99 % a north western european descent. And we can see that thee re buriAfrican descendant has the same west africans association as these two people in the cemetery. She's buried in

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