Period with highest proportion of sites w/ prob evidence for people from N.Africa is, of course, the Roman era e.g.https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/744286383771127808 …
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> FORDISC indicated 53% of individuals fell within European parameters, 32% had African affinities (what you're terming 'Sub-Saharan') >
& 15% in 'Egyptian' range. But looking at your account, I suspect you're not really interested, so *block* :)
So 68% were European or Egyptian...The other 32% were Middle Eastern, & various Africans?
No, just African — the reference populations they use are what are often termed 'Sub-Saharan' and also African American. :)
do we know where 'sub saharan africa' was in Roman times? (geographically speaking)
In 4th–7thC, Mediterranean imports in the Garamantian kingdom & then Burkina Faso+Mali, if helps? And Aksum in East would count, I'd think?
Andrew Wilson v good on Roman Saharan and trans-Saharan trade, fwiw :) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0067270X.2012.727614 …
Thanks. Will look him up. Maybe Nubians through Egypt or by ship down east coast/Ethiopia.
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