This is absolutely not what we said. We showed that before the imperial expansion of Rome, central Italy was home to people from all over the Mediterranean. This may have been an important factor in the rise of Rome.

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While the presence of people, including multi-generational families, from across the empire should come as little surprise, given the diverse range of architecture, religious infrastructure, and written languages found at the ports of Ostia and Portus. .

Individuals with non-local ancestry profiles and local isotopic values had most likely grown up in central Italy, and were descended from individuals who had previously emigrated to Ostia from other parts of the empire and settled there.

These two analyses reflect different timescales. Isotopic values indicate movement within someone’s lifetime and genetic information, though uninformative about an individual’s life history, provides a picture of potential mobility and admixture going back generations.

Ancient DNA analysis also indicates that some of the individuals buried at Isola Sacra had local ancestry and others had a diverse range of non-local ancestries from across the Roman empire (e.g. from the Levant, North Africa, and Iberia).

Isotopic analysis (δ18O, Prowse et al. 2007) of individuals buried at Isola Sacra, reveals that while a majority of the individuals most likely grew up locally, about ⅓ of the population had isotopic signatures indicating they had spent their early years elsewhere.

Had a great time speaking w/ Anthony Kaldellis about studying the people of ancient Rome using archaeogenetics and allied disciplines. At Isola Sacra, the necropolis for Rome’s primary port, genetic ancestry and mobility isotopes tell *very* different, but complementary, stories

For an overview of our results (and some of our other projects)

We even quoted Broodbank's book in our conclusions! Publication is here and open access preprint is here

This book - The Making of the Middle Sea - was a formative resource for our work on mobility in the Carthaginian and Etruscan Mediterranean. So it was truly a delightful surprise to see this summary of our work in the newly revised edition!

@Patrick_Wyman We also had a fun sidebar about mobility and migration, and how ancient DNA can leverage the extensive anthropological literature and terminology on the topic - as well as a discussion of some personal and familial histories!.

@Patrick_Wyman If this sounds interesting to you, check it out! And thanks so much for the wonderful conversation, Patrick, and for all your great work!.

New episode of Tides of History is out today! It was truly a pleasure speaking with @Patrick_Wyman about what we can learn from ancient DNA about mobility in the Iron Age Mediterranean - from Carthage and the Phoenicians to the rise of Rome

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