David Mattingly
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It's obviously a lot easier to tunnel if you're only tunnelling five metres to the bottom of the next shaft.
Can I just jump in?
We did an estimate.
of the labour needs to construct the foggerer systems that we know about in the Garmentian heartlands.
It's 72,000 man-years.
I mean, to put that another way, if you had a team of 100 people doing nothing apart from all their lives, constructing foggerers, it would take them 720 years to create that system.
In traditional Trans-Saharan trading, the key commodities of trade have been gold...
enslaved people and salt.
And at one level, the Garamantes plug into that sort of network.
Gold is being sourced in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in West Africa.
Enslaved people obviously can be taken at various points within the Sahara, but from the sub-Saharan lands as well.
Onto that, of course, the Garamantes are producing Oasis products.
Dates, for instance, have a market in the Mediterranean world, for sure.
But, and I think this is the crucial thing about the Garamantes, because sometimes they've been perceived as rather passive middlemen in trade that's dominated from the Mediterranean end.
But what we actually see from the archaeological evidence is that the Garamantes are quite discerning consumers.
They have a penchant for Roman tableware and glassware.
particularly really large open forms of bowls, which are incredibly fragile.
So you can imagine how overjoyed the merchants are to have to carry those sort of goods on these Saharan trails.
We've got lots and lots of amphorae that transport jars for wine and olive oil and fish sauce.
I mean, what's interesting is we've got evidence of masses of that material being consumed in the Garamantean heartlands, but it barely moves south and southwest always.
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