Quirimbas islands (Northern Mozambique) and the Swahili gold trade

Characterization of Glass, Shell, and Fishbone Beads on Ibo Island (Northern Mozambique) in the Context of the Indian Ocean Trade

“…Along with this pottery, an important amount of spindle-whorls was unearthed, which is in accordance with a textile center as Portuguese chronicles described. Several potsherds of imported ceramic wares, some of them glazed, were also recovered (de Torres et al 2016;Ruiz-Gálvez et al 2017). Lead and alkaline compositions identified in most of these glazes are technologically compatible with the so-called Samarra glazes produced in the Middle East (García-Heras et al 2019;Hill et al 2004).…”