Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Mattingly, D. J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Saharan trade has been much debated in modern times, but the main focus of interest remains the medieval and early modern periods, for which more abundant written sources survive. The pre-Islamic origins of Trans-Saharan trade have been hotly contested over the years, mainly due to a lack of evidence. Many of the key commodities of trade are largely invisible archaeologically, being either of high value like gold and ivory, or organic like slaves and textiles or consumable commodities like salt. However, new research on the Libyan people known as the Garamantes and on their trading partners in the Sudan and Mediterranean Africa requires us to revise our views substantially. In this volume experts re-assess the evidence for a range of goods, including beads, textiles, metalwork and glass, and use it to paint a much more dynamic picture, demonstrating that the pre-Islamic Sahara was a more connected region than previously thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108195409
• Artikelnr.: 50215551

Inhaltsangabe

Preface D. J. Mattingly; 1. The Garamantes and the origins of Saharan
trade: state of the field and future agendas D. J. Mattingly; Part I.
Connectivity and Networks: 2. The invisible pastoralists: camel-herding,
raiding, and Saharan trade and settlement Judith Scheele; 3. What made
Islamic trade distinctive, as compared to pre-Islamic trade? Anne Haour; 4.
The Trans-Saharan trade connection with Gao during the first millennium AD
Mamadou Cissé; 5. Ships of the desert, camels of the ocean: Indian ocean
perspectives on Trans-Saharan trade Mark Horton, Alison Crowther and Nicole
Boivin; 6. The economies and cultures of the Trans-Saharan gold trade from
pre-Islamic times to the modern era Sam Nixon; 7. Saharan exports to the
Roman world Andrew Wilson; Part II. Trade in Organic Materials: 8. Early
Saharan trade: the organic evidence D. J. Mattingly and Franca Cole; 9.
Textiles and textile trade in the first millennium AD: evidence from Egypt
Lise Bender Jørgensen; 10. Circulation and trade of textiles at the
southern borders of Roman Africa Stéphanie Guédon; Part III. Trade in
Inorganic Materials: 11. Early Saharan trade: the inorganic evidence V.
Leitch, C. N. Duckworth, A. Cuénod, D. J. Mattingly, M. Sterry and F. Cole;
12. Can we speak of pottery and amphora 'import substitution' in inland
regions of Roman Africa? Michael Bonifay; 13. Pottery and trade in North
Africa and the Sub-Sahara Anna Leone; 14. Track and trace: archaeometric
approaches to the study of early Trans-Sahara trade Sonja Magnavita; 15.
Glass beads in Trans-Saharan trade Laure Dussubieux; 16. Concluding
discussion D. J. Mattingly, V. Leitch, C. N. Duckworth, A. Cuénod and M.
Sterry.