Some oxygen isotope evidence for Africans in Britain, c. 1100 BC–AD 800---new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/10/oxygen-isotope-evidence.html …pic.twitter.com/fUiIFCbj9r
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> to identify ppl involved in this largely unrecorded migration to western Britain than is to id definite Anglo-Saxon migrants in the east!
In any case, evidence of N African migrants in post-Roman Wales suggests Byzantine trade w/ W Britain even more signif than usually thought!
For those interested, the paper on early medieval migration between Wales & the Mediterranean is available here :) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544031300023X …
For fun, 2 refs comparing the difficult name Gildas to Late Roman N. African name Gildo ;) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=q2U3i1X8B50C&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24#v=onepage&q&f=false … &https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=k9Rjq8EnQ44C&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false …
4/4 Global trade, and immigration, much older that we think :-)
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@RSR108 You're too kind, thank you! :)
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@fjrrl Hope the tofu went well. We gently fry ours with bits of ginger & garlic, in mix of oil &soy sauce. Mix oil & soy before heating :-)
@caitlinrgreen those north Africans ... Do you spose they liked a bit of rain? Thanks for your posts. @TimeTeam
.@caitlinrgreen findings will change how we look at demographic components of Britain prior to modern era.
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