A high status, mixed-race 4thC Roman woman poss from the Med/N Africa + buried at York: http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/17041/1/M_Lewis_Bangle_Lady.pdf …pic.twitter.com/DQ8aYOJX2n
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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.
wow! Didn't realize SSAs were such a big portion of at least that mix. Rome was giant blender
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