(For what it's worth, I'm starting the process of writing some of this up at the minute, but will leave these notes up in case useful :) )
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This is fabulous, thank you so much!
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Thanks! Glad you like! :)
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Yes the Mediteranean has always been a European lake swapping genes culture and technology. Little flowed from below the inaccessible Sahara
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I think you're positing too hard a border here :) Not only was there Saharan & trans-Saharan trade via the Garamantian kingdom (see, for >
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> example, https://www.world-archaeology.com/features/garamantes-libya.htm … & http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0067270X.2012.727614 …), but there was also notable contact w/ Nubia & Aksum (in Ethiopia & Eritrea) >
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> and Roman trading etc down the east coast of Africa to Tanzania. Indeed, plenty of evidence for familiarity with & presence of African >
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> ppl in Roman Empire & into Late Antiquity, e.g. https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/758742518175440898 … etc. With specific regard to Roman Britain, the figures I cited >
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> yesterday for York, London & Leicester (see https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/890900522588184577 …) relate specifically to ppl of African ('Sub-Saharan') ancestry :)
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This is amazing, what a fantastic resource, thanks for making available!
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My pleasure! Glad you like :)
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Thanks, glad you like! :-)
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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This is about to be a book, right? (Read: Exclamation mark!)
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That's the plan! :)
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Great, thx - we're all in need ;-)
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How are you defining African, i.e. North Africa or sub Sahara
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People from Africa, so all included :) What are you particularly interested in?
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This is so cool! I had a history teacher in h.s.tell us that Robin Hood:Prince of Thieves want historically accurate cuz of Morgan Freeman's
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character. She told us that the scenario just want possible. Now I'm starting to doubt her opinion on the Young Guns 2 movie.

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I fear she was very much on the wrong track re: the medieval period, not sure I can comment on the other, alas!
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I get the same feeling. Lol!
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