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    Beachy Head Woman potrebbe essere “una ragazza locale di Eastbourne”, affermano gli scienziati | Archeologia


    Beachy Head Woman potrebbe essere “una ragazza locale di Eastbourne”, affermano gli scienziati | Archeologia

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/17/beachy-head-woman-may-be-local-girl-from-eastbourne-say-scientists

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    1. UuusernameWith4Us on

      > Beachy Head Woman, a Roman-era skeleton once hailed as the earliest known black Briton and who scientists later speculated could be of Cypriot descent, has now been shown to have originated from southern England.

      Apparently the previous widely reported claims that this woman was early black Briton were based entirely on an analysis of skull shape – I thought that kind of thing was discredited? The new analysis is based on DNA.

    2. BenButton123 on

      > Previously, forensic anthropologists had suggested that the woman may have been of sub-Saharan Africa origin based on an analysis of the skull and, in 2016, a plaque was erected to “to commemorate the first black Briton”.

      > Doubts about this theory emerged when an initial DNA analysis pointed to Cyprus as a more likely origin, although this result was not conclusive.

      This is so funny. 

    3. BobBobBobBobBobDave on

      To be fair, whilst no doubt this will get caught up in some argument about “woke”, it is actually just a story about science getting better.

      Originally they tried to do some skull-measuring, which is notoriously dodgy, and it suggested she might have been African.

      Some years later, the science sufficiently advanced that they could do a DNA test, which is much better and more accurate, and it corrected the results.

    4. ReligiousGhoul on

      Offh, this is going to be a blow to certain groups.

      Anyone checked on David Olusoga?

    5. MercianRaider on

      Operation Fabricate Black Britons has failed. Funny.

      The “dont question science” brigade wont like it either.

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