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
History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.
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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
Fwiw, this is what I was referring to when I expressed scepticism over summer re: notion that Sahara was 'impassable barrier' in antiquity…
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 …
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…
Number seems ridiculously high, considering pop'n to draw on, infrastructure, & early modern numbers in comparison.
Numbers those usually arrived at for medieval and early modern eras; Wilson suggests equal or greater quantity in Roman era in paper cited.
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