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There is also a second lie of omission in not mentioning the Arab/trans-Saharan slave trade. Which is doubly strange because they explicitly studied slave-trade
by like_any_other 2y ago
There is also a second lie of omission in not mentioning the Arab/trans-Saharan slave trade. Which is doubly strange because they explicitly studied slave-trade-borne migration. There is nothing about Strontium isotopes that would discriminate based on who was doing the slave trading - the researchers had to actively limit their scope to only the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
- g8oz 2y agoThe paper specifically deals with the *transatlantic* slave trade presumably because it's better documented. There's no reason to mention the other types just to placate those offended by anything that hints at the spectre of Western historical guilt.
- like_any_other 2y agoTheir method relies only on Strontium, not on old documents. The omission is deliberate.