*So many mute Marco Polos.
*A little freaky, though, how talkative isotope analysis is getting. Tunisian
guy in Ipswich. What TOWN in Tunisia, one wonders.
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/medieval-african-england.html
(...)
"It's not clear how the man would have made his way from Tunisia to Ipswich, the southeast England town where his skeleton was unearthed in the 1990s. The BBC's "History Cold Case" program, which is publicizing the finding, suggested that he may have been brought back during the Crusades, although Mallett and Bolton both hypothesized he could have conceivably come through Spain, parts of which were then under Muslim rule.
"His burial on consecrated ground suggests that not only must he have converted to Christianity, he may have gone on to become a respected member of society.
"He would have had to been of some note to be buried in the friary," Mallett said.
"Bolton said it was extremely difficult to find evidence of any Africans in England between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Age of Exploration..." (((Maybe because people haven't been, like, looking very hard yet.)))
