No such thing as invisible people: toward an archaeology of slavery at the fifteenth-century Swahili site of Songo Mnara

Rødland, Henriette; Wynne‐Jones, Stephanie; Wood, Marilee; Fleisher, Jeffrey

doi:10.1080/0067270x.2020.1841978

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“…The overwhelming majority of glass bead studies from East Africa focus on the origin of beads, their proposed trade routes, and their chemical composition, rather than how they were adopted, adapted, modified, and used in the societies in which they ended up (except Pauly & Ferrandis, 2018;Rødland et al, 2020; also see Robertshaw, 2020). However, their temporal and geographic ubiquity suggests they were an important article of personal adornment, barter, and ritual and religious activity (e.g., Donley-Reid, 1990;Marshall, 2019).…”

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Crafting Swahili Beads: Exploring a New Glass Bead Assemblage from Northern Zanzibar, Tanzania

Rødland

2022

Afr Archaeol Rev

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This article presents the discovery and analysis of a new glass bead assemblage from the Swahili site of Mkokotoni, an early second millennium AD settlement in northwestern Zanzibar. It explores the possibilities for local production of glass beads using imported glass cullet or glass tubes at this site. Glass beads are ubiquitous at archaeological sites from the second millennium on the East African coast. They are presumed to have been traded via long-distance networks from South and Southeast Asia, and used locally in personal adornment, barter, and ritual practices. However, the data from Mkokotoni offers a new and unique perspective on glass bead-making traditions, which places the East African coast as an area of production and distribution.

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Section: Glass Beads In Coastal East Africamentioning

confidence: 99%