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Nick Szabo· 2026-04-27 15:21
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)You have to be very careful interpreting the results of studies of ancient DNA results from Classical and Archaic Greece. DNA remains from Archaic and Classical Greece are very biased because of funerary practices -- upper classes were much more likely to be cremated than lower classes and slaves. On top of this, sample sizes even from burials are small due to the warm climate destroying DNA more rapidly.So what the results so far can tell us, at best, is that lower classes and sl ...