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

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, t...

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Published inAntiquity Vol. 84; no. 323; pp. 131 - 145
Main Authors Leach, S., Eckardt, H., Chenery, C., Müldner, G., Lewis, M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.03.2010
Subjects
Analysis
Ancestry
Ancient mortuary customs
Ancient Rome
Archaeology
Burial
Cementeries
Cemeteries
Emigration and immigration
Ethnicity
Forensic sciences
Human remains
Integrated approach
isotope analysis
Ivory
mortuary theory
rank
Roman
Roman Empire, 30 BC-476 AD
Sepulchral monuments
Social aspects
Studies
United Kingdom
York
United Kingdom
New York
United Kingdom > UK
United States > US
Europe
Africa
ancestry
burial
York
ivory
rank
Roman
mortuary theory
isotope analysis
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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.
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1745-1744
DOI:10.1017/S0003598X00099816