wow looks like we dont have to wait another year for the Pompeii samples to date the popualtion wide shift; a new abstract on ancient Blanda deals with absolute dates and two samples unexpectedly fall into the roman times
'the adult male (2nd-4th century CE) shares genetic affinity with ancient Eastern Baltic populations, while the adult female (1st century BCE-2nd century CE), clusters with contemporaneous population of Rome'
cant wait for the exact date but that sounds very early in the principate so early that the late-republic could have been involved (?shift) eitherway that is right at the beginnings of the empire and its strongest period 1-200 CE
the other paper dealing with Herculaneum is off the hook !!! 94 samples
the abstract does not reveal the exact propotions but part of the sample will have 'ancestral roots extending across the Central and Eastern Mediterranean' which already sounds abit like what we have seen in the papers on Rome/Latium and Etruria; if it indeed checks out as such then there is little way around the shift commencing in the late-republic for the getgo of the Empire to have already been shifted popualtion-wide
most samples 80/94 are from the seafront boathouses (a ruff place on that day) and should cover all ages for a massive insight into the 1st c CE
'the adult male (2nd-4th century CE) shares genetic affinity with ancient Eastern Baltic populations, while the adult female (1st century BCE-2nd century CE), clusters with contemporaneous population of Rome'
cant wait for the exact date but that sounds very early in the principate so early that the late-republic could have been involved (?shift) eitherway that is right at the beginnings of the empire and its strongest period 1-200 CE
the other paper dealing with Herculaneum is off the hook !!! 94 samples
the abstract does not reveal the exact propotions but part of the sample will have 'ancestral roots extending across the Central and Eastern Mediterranean' which already sounds abit like what we have seen in the papers on Rome/Latium and Etruria; if it indeed checks out as such then there is little way around the shift commencing in the late-republic for the getgo of the Empire to have already been shifted popualtion-wide
most samples 80/94 are from the seafront boathouses (a ruff place on that day) and should cover all ages for a massive insight into the 1st c CE
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