Josephine Quinn

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In Our Time · The Garamantes · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

Exactly.

There's these stories about them hunting in chariots, these cave-dwelling Ethiopians, who Herodotus says, and this is another of this progressive barbarisation, these are people who are even further south than the Garamantes, and Herodotus says they squeak instead of speaking.

So they're kind of in this mythical world.

But he does, you know, there's a story there you also get, and this is, I think, extraordinary.

There are cave art...

from these regions where the people would be hunting and they show people with horses and chariots.

So these are perhaps the victims showing these people who come after them.

But there's also going to be, certainly by the Roman period, a lot of slave trading as well as just kind of catching other people.

And so that's one major factor in what's going on here, what's happening with the Garamantes, both using a lot of enslaved people but also trading them perhaps to the Roman province.

Well, I think one of the things that's really interesting about looking at the growth of cities in general is that very often what seems to produce that kind of scale and density that we call cities in different periods is when...

lines of communication or trade cross through them.

So I think what we're getting with the Garamantes that's so interesting is you have this early sort of trade route that's going from the Nile to the Niger, where there are all these oases along it.

I would see those oasis settlements as a kind of secondary phenomenon that's not necessarily passive.

Absolutely, people who are coming to profit from the existence of a trade route.

But the actual push factors are kind of coming from one end or the other or both.

But when you get these north-south connections, so Faris has talked about potentially connections with the Carthaginians.

We have lots of evidence for connections north with Rome later on.

And then there's this amazing thing where the cotton and so on is arriving from further south.

So it's when you get this north-south connection

routes that cross that east-west route.

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