Indian Ocean trade connections (Other Keyword)
1-1 (1 Record)
Maritime adaptations and Indian Ocean trade in East Africa: The role of small offshore islands (2015)
DOCUMENT
Citation Only
Decades of pioneering archaeological research have firmly established East Africa’s offshore islands as important localities for understanding the region’s pre-Swahili maritime adaptations and early Indian Ocean trade connections. While the importance of the sea and small offshore islands to the development of urbanized and mercantile Swahili societies long been recognized, the formative stages of island colonisation – and in particular the processes by which migrating Iron Age groups...