Coastal subsistence, maritime trade, and the colonization of small offshore islands in eastern African prehistory

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dc.contributor.author Crowther, Alison
dc.contributor.author Faulkner, Patrick
dc.contributor.author Prendergast, Mary E.
dc.contributor.author Quintana Morales, Eréndira M.
dc.contributor.author Horton, Mark
dc.contributor.author Wilmsen, Edwin
dc.contributor.author Kotarba-Morley, Anna M.
dc.contributor.author Christie, Annalisa
dc.contributor.author Petek, Nik
dc.contributor.author Tibesasa, Ruth
dc.contributor.author Douka, Katerina
dc.contributor.author Picornell-Gelabert, Llorenç
dc.contributor.author Carah, Xavier
dc.contributor.author Boivin, Nicole
dc.date.accessioned 2016-08-01T07:37:31Z
dc.date.available 2016-08-01T07:37:31Z
dc.date.issued 2016-06
dc.description.abstract Recent archaeological research has firmly established eastern 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 has long been recognized, the formative stages of island colonization—and in particular the processes by which migrating Iron Age groups essentially became “maritime”—are still relatively poorly understood. Here we present the results of recent archaeological fieldwork in the Mafia Archipelago, which aims to understand these early adaptations and situate them within a longer-term trajectory of island settlement and pre-Swahili cultural developments. We focus on the results of zooarchaeological, archaeobotanical, and material culture studies relating to early subsistence and trade on this island to explore the changing significance of marine resources to the local economy. We also discuss the implications of these maritime adaptations for the development of local and long-distance Indian Ocean trade networks. en_ZA
dc.description.department Anthropology and Archaeology en_ZA
dc.description.librarian hb2016 en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorship The Sealinks Project is funded through a grant toNicole Boivin from the European Research Council (StarterGrant 206148) under the “Ideas” specific Programme of the 7th Framework Programme (FP7). Additional funding includes: postdoctoral fellowships from the British Academy (2010–2013) and the University of Queensland (2015–2017) to Alison Crowther; a Fondation Fyssen Postdoctoral Grant toEr´endira Quintana Morales; and a postdoctoral fellowship from the Government of the Balearic Islands (Conselleria d’Educaci´o) and the European Social Fund to Llorenc¸ Picornell-Gelabert. Fieldwork was carried out under COSTECH Research Permit no. 2012-303-ER-2011-85 and the Division of Antiquities (Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Tanzania) excavation license no. EA.402/605/01 issued to Alison Crowther, and with the support and permission of theRegionalAdministrative Secretary (Dar es Salaam andCoast/Pwani), the District Administrative Secretary (Mafia), and the Village Executive Officer (Mtendaji wa Kijiji, Juani). en_ZA
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dc.identifier.citation Alison Crowther, Patrick Faulkner, Mary E. Prendergast, Eréndira M. Quintana Morales, Mark Horton, Edwin Wilmsen, Anna M. Kotarba-Morley, Annalisa Christie, Nik Petek, Ruth Tibesasa, Katerina Douka, Llorenç Picornell-Gelabert, Xavier Carah & Nicole Boivin (2016) Coastal Subsistence, Maritime Trade, and the Colonization of Small Offshore Islands in Eastern African Prehistory, The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 11:2, 211-237, DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2016.1188334. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 1556-4894 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 1556-1828 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.1080/15564894.2016.1188334
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/56148
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher Routledge en_ZA
dc.rights © 2016 Alison Crowther, Patrick Faulkner, Mary E. Prendergast, Erendira M. Quintana Morales, Mark Horton, Edwin Wilmsen, Anna M. Kotarba-Morley, Annalisa Christie, Nik Petek, Ruth Tibesasa, Katerina Douka, Llorenc¸ Picornell-Gelabert, Xavier Carah, and Nicole Boivin. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). en_ZA
dc.subject Fishing en_ZA
dc.subject Iron age en_ZA
dc.subject Late holocene en_ZA
dc.subject Mafia achipelago en_ZA
dc.subject Maritime adaptation en_ZA
dc.subject Pre-Swahili en_ZA
dc.title Coastal subsistence, maritime trade, and the colonization of small offshore islands in eastern African prehistory en_ZA
dc.type Article en_ZA


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