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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Archeopteryx: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] Getting back to the New Scientist article on [URL=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2357581-ancient-egyptians-used-exotic-oils-from-distant-lands-to-make-mummies/]Egyptian exotic goods[/URL], I am curious about the imported wood from southern African forests. Who were these mysterious trading partners? As far as I know Kush and Punt controlled the trade routes further south in Sub-Sahara and we know next to nothing of these other peoples. According to the [URL=http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=003171]Periplus Maris Erythraei[/URL], which is dates to the 100 CE there existed a polity called Azania that ranged from southern Somalia and Kenya down to Tanzania including the Zanzibar Islands in what is the modern Swahili Coast. Before that in the 5th century BC. Herodotus mentions a kingdom of a people the Greeks called Macrobians that was the southernmost known people in contrast to the Hyperborians of Northern Europe who were the northernmost. So who were the Bronze Age people that far south who sold southern African wood that is found as far north as Mozambique?? [/qb][/QUOTE]Would it not be possible through analysis of preserved wood be able to pin point more exactly its sources? Maybe growth rings are possible to use too (even if they are not always so marked in trees that grow in a climate with less pronounced seasons) (?) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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