For interest, a fascinating+important article by Andrew Wilson on Saharan & trans-Saharan trade in the Roman period: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0067270X.2012.727614 …
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Items from c.3rd–7thC Kissi, Burkina Faso, sub-Saharan W. Africa, made w/ metal prob imported from Roman Carthage: https://www.academia.edu/3596759/Contacts_Between_West_Africa_and_Roman_North_Africa_Archaeometallurgical_Results_from_Kissi_Northeastern_Burkina_Faso …pic.twitter.com/YLsUinQcCi
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A selection of beads from Kissi, Burkina Faso—some from Roman/Byz Near East+Egypt, others prob from Sasanian Empire: https://www.academia.edu/10180972/Sahelian_crossroads_Some_aspects_on_the_Iron_Age_sites_of_Kissi_Burkina_Faso …pic.twitter.com/A1Y3OnoMCV
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What an amazing diversity of places of origin
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Absolutely! And yet, fascinatingly, they found there way to a 3rd–7thC burial ground in Sub-Saharan West Africa! :)
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