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Correction to Redfern et al. (2017) ‘Written in Bone’: New Discoveries about the Lives of Roman Londoners, Britannia 48, 253–77
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2023
Abstract
In 2017, ancient DNA analysis of the Harper Road burial from Southwark (London) found that the individual had male chromosomes. Now analysis has discovered that the individual had female chromosomes, data which match the osteological estimation of sex and the interpretation of the grave-goods.
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‘Written in Bone’: New Discoveries about the Lives and Burials of Four Roman Londoners
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Correction to Redfern et al. (2017) ‘Written in Bone’: New Discoveries about the Lives of Roman Londoners, Britannia 48, 253–77