Coastal Subsistence, Maritime Trade, and the Colonization of Small Offshore Islands in Eastern African Prehistory

Crowther, AlisonUniv Queensland, Sch Social Sci, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia. (author)

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 colonizationand in particular the processes by which migrating Iron Age groups essentially became maritimeare 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.

Faulkner, PatrickUniv Sydney, Sch Philosoph & Hist Inquiry, Dept Archaeol, Sydney, NSW, Australia. (author)
Prendergast, Mary E.St Louis Univ, Dept Sociol & Anthropol, Madrid, Spain. (author)
Morales, Erendira M. QuintanaRice Univ, Dept Anthropol, Houston, TX USA. (author)
Horton, MarkUniv Bristol, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, Bristol, Avon, England. (author)
Wilmsen, EdwinUniv Witwatersrand, Sch Geog Archaeol & Environm Studies, Johannesburg, South Africa. (author)
Kotarba-Morley, Anna M.Univ Wollongong, Sch Earth & Environm Sci, Ctr Archaeol Sci, Wollongong, NSW, Australia. (author)
Christie, AnnalisaUniv E Anglia, Sainsbury Res Unit Arts Africa Oceania & Amer, Norwich NR4 7TJ, Norfolk, England. (author)
Petek, NikUppsala universitet,Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia(Swepub:uu)nikpe953 (author)
Tibesasa, RuthUniv Pretoria, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, Pretoria, South Africa. (author)
Douka, KaterinaUniv Oxford, Res Lab Archaeol & Hist Art, Oxford, England. (author)
Picornell-Gelabert, LlorencUniv Balearic Isl, Dept Hist Sci & Theory Art, Palma De Mallorca, Spain. (author)
Carah, XavierUniv Queensland, Sch Social Sci, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia. (author)
Boivin, NicoleUniv Oxford, Sch Archaeol, Oxford, England.;Max Planck Inst Sci Human Hist, Jena, Germany. (author)
Univ Queensland, Sch Social Sci, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia.Univ Sydney, Sch Philosoph & Hist Inquiry, Dept Archaeol, Sydney, NSW, Australia. (creator_code:org_t)

In:Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology: Informa UK Limited11:2, s. 211-2371556-48941556-1828

By the author/editor: Crowther, Alison; Faulkner, Patric ...; Prendergast, Mar ...; Morales, Erendir ...; Horton, Mark; Wilmsen, Edwin; show more...; Kotarba-Morley, ...; Christie, Annali ...; Petek, Nik; Tibesasa, Ruth; Douka, Katerina; Picornell-Gelabe ...; Carah, Xavier; Boivin, Nicole; show less...

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