Just two individuals! It just might be an oddity of some kind! Of course, also the Romans were in Northern Africa and in large parts of Europe.
Again, the horrible propaganda and demagoguery of the AAAS!
"The term “Anglo-Saxon” today carries a connotation of whiteness [???], but the historical Anglo-Saxons may have been a more ethnically diverse bunch than many assumed. Two young people unearthed from a pair of burial grounds in what today is England carried West African ancestry, according to a set of ancient DNA analyses out this week in Antiquity.
At a cemetery known as Updown in Kent, researchers found that a young girl’s paternal grandfather was 100% West African, a genetic match for people living in what today is Nigeria. And at a burial ground in nearby Dorset, they found a young man who also carried West African ancestry. Neither person’s burial marked them as any different from their contemporaries, whose DNA all came from northern Europe—they had the same grave goods and were buried in the same fashion as their neighbors. “It seems unlikely nobody knew about their ancestry, but these individuals weren’t treated differently in death than anyone else,” says archaeologist Helena Hamerow, who wasn’t involved in the work.
Together, the results suggest Britain in that era was more globally interconnected and diverse than many previously suspected.[???] “People were moving much more than we assumed … and from places we wouldn’t have expected,” says Hamerow."
From the abstract:
"Archaeogenetics, the study of ancient DNA, can reveal powerful insights into kinship and the movement of individuals in (pre)history. Here, the authors report on the identification of two individuals with genetic profiles consistent with recent sub-Saharan African ancestry, both of whom were buried in early-medieval cemeteries in southern Britain. Focusing primarily on a sub-adult female from Updown in Kent, the authors explore the societal and cultural contexts in which these individuals lived and died, and the widening geographic links indicated by their presence, pointing back to the Byzantine reconquest of North Africa in AD 533–534."
Youths buried in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries carried West African DNA "Despite bearing remarkably far-flung genetic origins, a girl and young man were buried just like their peers"
Figure 2. The cemetery at Worth Matravers, Dorset, showing the burials sampled for aDNA in bold (figure by authors).
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