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A Lady of York: migration, ethnicity and identity in Roman Britain

Leach, S., Eckardt, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9288-5624, Chenery, C., Muldner, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4513-9263 and Lewis, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6224-0278 (2010) A Lady of York: migration, ethnicity and identity in Roman Britain. Antiquity, 84 (323). pp. 131-145. ISSN 0003-598X

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00099816

Abstract/Summary

Modern methods of analysis applied to cemeteries have often been used in our pages to suggest generalities about mobility and diet. But these same techniques applied to a single individual, together with the grave goods and burial rite, can open a special kind of personal window on the past. Here, the authors of a multidisciplinary project use a combination of scientific techniques to illuminate Roman York, and later Roman history in general, with their image of a glamorous mixed-race woman, in touch with Africa, Christianity, Rome and Yorkshire.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Department of Archaeology
Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Scientific Archaeology
ID Code:17041
Uncontrolled Keywords:York, Roman, burial, isotope analysis, ancestry, rank, ivory, mortuary theory
Publisher:Antiquity Publications

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