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Portuguese Introduced Firearms Amongst The Societies Of The Lower Zambezi From The Early Seventeenth To Late Nineteenth Centuries (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Beginning in the sixteenth century, the introduction of firearms into the lower Zambezi by the Portuguese produced both transient and lasting impacts for this area of central Mozambique. These European weapons were often, though not always, eagerly adopted by local communities where they...