A 10th–3rdC BC cem on Isle of Thanet, Kent, w/ multiple ppl who prob grew up in N Africa: http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/kent/ramsgate/cliffs_end …pic.twitter.com/OdbTH1bzX6
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A 10th–3rdC BC cem on Isle of Thanet, Kent, w/ multiple ppl who prob grew up in N Africa: http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/kent/ramsgate/cliffs_end …pic.twitter.com/OdbTH1bzX6
See further http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/10/oxygen-isotope-evidence.html … on this cem; 2 ppl from here (9thC + 3rdC BC) have v v high results, consistent w/ origin in Nile Valley
Poss that African ppl present as Thanet="transit centre" for trade between Med+Scandinavia: https://www.academia.edu/12497151/Rock_art_and_Metal_Trade …pic.twitter.com/shqiTc0pGf
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
Other poss evidence for pre-Roman contact between N. Africa/Med+Britain incl anchors & 4th-3rdC BC harbour at Poole:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/637703618725040128 …
Dr Caitlin Green added,
Poole port c.300BC: 2 piers, 8m wide, paved stone surface+best parallels=Punic/Mediterranean..?(via @awhitingdorset)pic.twitter.com/fhAKAibwnv
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
Also noteworthy is recent suggestion that number of British coastal names (incl Thanet!) may be of Punic origin! :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/590444130351902720 …
Dr Caitlin Green added,
So, for example, the Isle of Thanet, Kent, may well=Punic 'Y TNT, 'Isle (of) Tanit', the Carthaginian goddess...pic.twitter.com/oGwLM0D7Os
Indeed, recently argued by Broderick (supported by Richard Coates) that even name Britain may be Punic or similar, meaning 'island of tin'!
And that is the end of this thread :) Incidentally, refs for name Britain as Punic=Beiträge zur Namenforschung, 44 (2009)+Nomina, 35 (2012)
In case it's of use to anyone, I've tried to draw together the strands of this thread into a 'storify' here :) https://storify.com/caitlinrgreen/african-migrants-medieval-britain …
For interest, another Roman-era migrant, 3DRIF-26, probably from Lower Nile Valley or Nubia: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160119/ncomms10326/full/ncomms10326.html …pic.twitter.com/SOT0kWxg3S
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