Saharan and trans-Saharan contacts and trade in the Roman era — new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/10/saharan-and-trans-saharan-contacts.html …pic.twitter.com/CqGUbrglYx
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For more on this, see Andrew Wilson's fascinating & important article on 'Saharan trade in the Roman period': http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0067270X.2012.727614 …
See also the papers by David Mattingly+others in 'Money, Trade and Trade Routes in Pre-Islamic North Africa' (2011): http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/Money_Trade_and_Trade_Routes_online.pdf …
'The first towns in the central Sahara'—open access article from 2013 on Garamantian towns & trans-Saharan trade: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00049097 …pic.twitter.com/YYs4s2ZVtW
This is also worth a read :) 'The Saharan Berber Diaspora and the Southern Frontiers of Byzantine North Africa':https://www.academia.edu/3516995/The_Saharan_Berber_Diaspora_and_the_Southern_Frontiers_of_Byzantine_North_Africa …
'Saharan Trade in Classical Antiquity', by Katia Schörle:https://www.academia.edu/607092/Chapter_3_Saharan_trade_in_Classical_Antiquity …
'Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond' (2017): https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6ug7DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/hNIQEpRdR6
When did these myths of impassible barriers originate? May say more about limitations of originating culture than antiquity.
True :) Commonly held until recently, despite finds from Fazzan. Needless to say, view proved popular in recent Roman Britain controversy…
Yes, thank you for expounding on that idea. This will infuriate the non-diversity crowd, but facts are facts. Great article.
Thanks! :)
Common sense says the Sahara has always been passable to those capable of surviving it. Namely those who were born and lived there.
it's never been impassible to the indigenes who know the way.
Far from impassable! It was a virtual traffic jam. When there's a will...etc.
why wouldnt Roman ships do cabotage in West Africa as they did in the East?
Oh, and do we know how different the Sahara was in antiquity? Were desert conditions as widespread as they are now? I think not.
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