Trade in the ancient Sahara and beyond /

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 evidenc...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mattingly, D. J. (Editor ), Leitch, V. (Editor ), Duckworth, C. N. (Editor ), Cuénod, A. (Editor ), Sterry, M. (Editor ), Cole, F. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Colección:Trans-Saharan archaeology.
Temas:
To 500
Commerce > History > To 500.
Trade routes > Africa, North > History.
Commerce > Histoire > Jusqu'à 500.
Routes commerciales > Afrique du Nord > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Trade & Tariffs.
Commerce
Trade routes
Africa, North > Commerce > History.
Africa, North > History.
Afrique du Nord > Commerce > Histoire.
Afrique du Nord > Histoire.
North Africa
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Garamantes and the origins of Saharan trade: state of the field and future agendas / David Mattingly
  • The need for nomads: camel-herding, raiding, and Saharan trade and settlement / Judith Scheele
  • What made Islamic trade distinctive, as compared to pre-Islamic trade? / Anne Haour
  • The Trans-Saharan trade connection with Gao (Mali) during the First Millennium AD / Mamadou Cissé
  • Ships of the desert, camels of the ocean: an Indian Ocean perspective on Trans-Saharan trading systems / Mark Horton, Alison Crowther and Nicole Boivin
  • Trans-Saharan gold trade in pre-modern times: available evidence and research agendas / Sam Nixon
  • Saharan exports to the Roman world / Andrew Wilson
  • Visible and invisible commodities of trade: the significance of organic materials in Saharan trade / David Mattingly and Franca Cole
  • Textiles and textile trade in the First Millennium AD: evidence from Egypt / Lise Bender Jørgensen
  • Circulation and trade of textiles in the Southern borders of Roman Africa: new hypotheses / Stéphanie Guédon
  • Early Saharan trade: the inorganic evidence / Victoria Leitch, Chloë Duckworth, Aurélie Cuénod, David Mattingly, Martin Sherry and Franca Cole
  • Can we speak of pottery and amphora 'import substitution' in inland regions of Roman Africa? / Michel Bonifay
  • Pottery and trade in North and Sub-Saharan Africa during late antiquity: the distribution of North African finewares / Anna Leone
  • Track and trace: archaeometric approaches to the study of early trans-Saharan trade / Sonja Magnavita
  • Glass beads in the trans-Saharan trade / Laure Dussubieux
  • Concluding discussion / David Mattingly, Victoria Leitch, Chloë Duckworth, Aurélie Cuénod and Martin Sterry.

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