09-24-2016, 09:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-24-2016, 09:50 PM by Dan Howard.)
Not ALL the way. They caught a lift on some Atlantean trading ships for part of the journey.
All the study shows is that some of the skeletons didn't spend their childhood in England. We already knew that a lot of Romano-Britons came from elsewhere in the Empire. The analysis didn't even compare the diet of these skeletons to those in Rome itself, whose citizens ate food from all over the world. There is nothing in this study to say that the skeletons were Chinese. The only way to show that is to use DNA analysis.
All the study shows is that some of the skeletons didn't spend their childhood in England. We already knew that a lot of Romano-Britons came from elsewhere in the Empire. The analysis didn't even compare the diet of these skeletons to those in Rome itself, whose citizens ate food from all over the world. There is nothing in this study to say that the skeletons were Chinese. The only way to show that is to use DNA analysis.
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