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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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
Wilson argues that the Garamantes of the Libyan Sahara controlled 1st–4thC AD trans-Saharan trade involving c. 5,000–10,000 slaves per year…
A paper by Elizabeth Fentress on the trans-Saharan slave trade and African slaves in the Mediterranean world:https://www.academia.edu/1518787/Slavers_on_Chariots …
I assume, amongst other things, agricultural work on large estates & work on public buildings required large supplies of cheap slave labour.
Yes, calculations suggest would need a fairly massive yearly inflow :) Plus Garamantes also needed to build and maintain foggaras!
Thanks for this Dr. Green. Here is some info on north Africa before the Romans: https://rfkclassics.blogspot.com/2017/10/colorlines-in-classical-north-africa.html …
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