Thread 17976529

>Archaeologists have analyzed the DNA of two unrelated individuals buried in 7th-century-AD cemeteries on the south coast of England, revealing that they both had recent ancestors, likely grandparents, from West Africa.
>While the majority of the individuals buried at the cemeteries had either northern European or western British and Irish ancestry, which were both prevalent in England at the time, one person at each cemetery had a recent ancestor from West Africa.

you call us "BBC" because you're a disgusting fetishist. they were human beings you psycho

>>17976529 (OP)
Some dude banging his slave girls.

>>17978116
The samples had African grandfathers, indicated by their paternal haplogroups and aDNA.
>The inferred admixture dates and estimated ancestry proportions imply that one paternal grandparent of the individual within grave 47 (EAS003) was of entirely sub-Saharan African descent.
>KD010 carries the pan-European maternal lineage U5b1 and a paternal haplotype belonging to the E1b1b1a1–M78 haplogroup, which is consistent with West African ancestry.

>>17977987
What is this BBC babbling about?
Do you want rhino or something? Will that get you to go back to the shed?

>>17978116
>>17978129
I don't doubt slavery (and the early Caliphate) was involved in West Africans ending up so far north, but they also manumitted a lot of people
I'm thinking freedmen merchants