There was a multi generational family of African fishmongers in York (I think) @caitlinrgreen has the reference.
Thank you :) And, yes! But that's why I love studying history & archaeology, its ability to upend our assumptions and beliefs! Reading >
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> your thread, I think the key here is that Saharan and trans-Saharan trading in antiquity has seen a major reassessment in recent years >
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> as a result of the Fazzan Project & study of the Garamantian kingdom. See in particular Andrew Wilson's fab paper: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0067270X.2012.727614 …
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> Wilson argues for a v substantial degree of Saharan & trans-Saharan trading from 1stC AD, incl slave trade that rivalled medieval era…
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Incidentally, I might also throw into the mix the documented contacts w/ Nubia/Red Sea trade, & East Africa trade :) (cf. Felix Chami's >
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> work on+around Mafia island incl recent discovery of poss city on Mafia that may be the lost Rhapta & is associated w/ Roman tile+pottery)
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