The Decade-Long Mystery of the ‘Beachy Head Woman’ Has Been Solved by DNA

For more than a decade, the “Beachy Head Woman” was treated like a cultural Rorschach test. Found in a box in southern England and dated to Roman-occupied Britain, her skull convinced researchers that she must have come from some distant land. Most likely sub-Saharan Africa. As such, she was called the “first Black Briton.” Later, […] The post The Decade-Long Mystery of the ‘Beachy Head Woman’ Has Been Solved by DNA appeared first on VICE .